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As more and more renewable energy comes on to the grid, networks are having to deal with more intermittent supplies from wind and solar power. Energy storage using batteries and other technologies are one answer, enabling surplus energy that is produced at times of low demand to be stored and …

Monday, April 20, 2020 was a historic day for oil market. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) closed below zero for the first time.

The coronavirus pandemic is harming the oil market way more than the price dispute between OPEC and its allies OPEC+, RBN Energy chief executive Rusty Braziel told CNBC on Monday. RBN Energy is a Houston-based privately held energy commodities analytics company that plays a role between physical markets and financial …

Oil prices have collapsed by more than half this year, to $23 per barrel today for West Texas Intermediate crude. But now is not yet the time to buy oil—because the worst is yet to come. Gasoline demand is set to plunge 50%, while jet fuel consumption has all but …

Amid a thunderstorm of horrifically sad COVID-19 news, I wanted to focus on an energy story to lift your spirits. We all realize that energy markets are such an afterthought right now, but I wanted to give you something. Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of …

A sharp drop in aviation and transport demand has sent prices down by a third since January.

This book presents currently available renewable energy technologies (RETs) and explores their possible integration into the economically viable and green residential microgrids of tomorrow. The emphasis is on the importance of RETs in today’s energy-efficient building designs. and on those RET mathematical models suitable for both performance simulation and economic …

Last week. Microsoft joined the likes of Amazon. Apple. Tesla and other tech giants in a pledge to dramatically reduce its carbon footprint in the coming years. In fact. the company aims to achieve carbon negative status by 2030. meaning that it will remove more CO2 from the atmosphere than …

The world we live in today is very different to 10 years ago. What change will the coming decade bring? I asked Wood Mackenzie`s analysts from across our business – energy transition. power and renewables. macro oils. petrochemicals. gas. upstream. corporate. economics. metals and mining – to imagine what 2030 could …

The increasing penetration of distributed energy resource (DER). distributed generation (DG) and energy storage system (ESS) units in distribution grids leads to the emergence of the concepts of active distribution networks (ADNs). microgrids. and virtual power plants. Nowadays. the use of electronically-coupled distributed energy resources is of great interest that …