Around the Industry

An international team led by researchers from Cardiff University has revealed that across Europe, social and economic factors play a key role in how people feel about the security of their energy sources. Countries such as Iceland, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland have been shown to have generally lower energy security concerns, whereas Portugal, Spain, Russia, France and Belgium have higher levels of concern.

Around 50% of Belgium’s annual power generation is expected to come from non-hydro renewables in 2030, the same share that came from nuclear power in 2017, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

From extreme droughts in Australia to heat waves in parts of Europe and North America and from excessive monsoons in India to floods in Japan. If there’s one thing that the past months have showed us it is that global warming is real and that the need for climate action is more imminent than ever.

  The University of Hertfordshire has announced the launch of six PhD opportunities as part of University Alliance’s Doctoral Training Alliance in Energy, partly funded by the European Commission. 

The world’s first vessel powered by hydrogen and renewable energy, the Energy Observer, is on a six-year trip around the world to prove a potential energy system of the future. Rockwell Automation has become an official supplier and service provider for this project, providing automation systems that help power the vessel, which operates with zero greenhouse gasses or fine-particle emissions.

The Nigerian Agricultural Bank, Bank of Agriculture and the African electricity supplier, Daystar Power have entered into a comprehensive cooperation for rural electrification in Nigeria. The cooperation includes the supply of solar power to the bank branches as well as a concept for the supply of electricity to rural Nigeria. Since 1972, the Bank of Agriculture has been Nigeria's financial institution committed to rural development.

In order to meet the globally increasing requirements on flexible, biological wastewater treatment plants, Multi Umwelttechnologie (Mutag) is now offering their basic engineering support in the form of a franchise-concept. In this way, companies engaged in marketing and/or operating this technology, or being interested in using this technology as additional know-how can benefit from Mutag’s many years of experience and development work.

As of 1st August 2018, Nordmethan, a company of the WELTEC BIOPOWER Group, has taken over an insolvent biogas plant in Südergellersen, Lower Saxony. The German specialist for the development and operation of biomethane and biogas plants will fully modernise the technical and operational overall concept of the 2.2 Megawatt plant.

The EU has set ambitious targets to significantly reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases by 2020. One way to do this is by integrating renewable energy sources into electricity supplies. Sim4Blocks is an EU-funded project looking to do just that by developing strategies for flexible energy use.

Exhibition space is selling well ahead of its position at the same time last year for All-Energy 2019 and the co-located Smart Urban Mobility Solutions (SUMS 2019) being held at Glasgow’s SEC on 15th and 16th May 2019.