Call of EU battery manufacturers to develop a 'Battery Strategy for Europe'

EUROBAT, the Association of European Automotive and Industrial Battery Manufacturers, has published a call for the development of a '2030 Battery Strategy for Europe'.

Physicist who helped power villages in India named editor of new Cell Press energy journal

Philip Earis, a former editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry and the founder of a non-profit that develops and installs solar energy technology in off-grid communities in Western India, has been named the inaugural editor of Joule, a new Elsevier journal spanning energy research across scales and disciplines.

Cardiff University researchers to develop tool to project Wales’s greenhouse gas emissions up to 2050

Scientists from Cardiff University are developing a tool to forecast Wales’s greenhouse gas emissions over the next 30 years.

All-Energy to host marine renewable energy Dragon’s Den- style investment challenge

An initiative master-minded by Tim Cornelius, CEO of Atlantis Resources, the winner of the All-Energy 2017 Marine Renewable Energy Investment Challenge – a ‘Dragon’s Den-style’ event – will benefit from up to £10,000-worth of invaluable advice from lawyers, stockbrokers, investment bankers, accountants, communications experts and marketeers.

ENGIE and Schneider Electric collaborate to digitize the energy sector

Schneider Electric and ENGIE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore and deploy new digital solutions for operational efficiency of renewable assets (wind and solar PV), leveraging supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), historian and related application software powered by Schneider Electric’s Wonderware brand.

E.ON to participate in European smart grid project InterFlex

E.ON has joined the European smart grid project InterFlex that aims to explore new ways of using various forms of flexibilities to optimize electric power systems on a local scale.

Global photovoltaic milestone reached

The German Solar Association in Berlin has announced a new milestone has been reached with 300 gigawatts of total installed solar power capacity around the world.

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy to initiate funding for energy innovation projects in the UK

Minister of State for Climate Change and Industry Nick Hurd has announced funding for a series of energy innovation projects in the UK.

Elsevier and the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) launch the Renewable Transformation Challenge, opens for submissions on 6th February 2017

Elsevier and the International Solar Energy Society are proud to announce the launch of the Renewable Transformation Challenge.

Energy for Society: First international conference on energy research and social science

The Elsevier journal Energy Research & Social Science will be holding its first international conference from 2-5 April 2017 in Sitges, Spain.