Super-Bacteria Are Scaling Up To Attack The Petrochemical Industry
The Danish startup Cellugy has developoed a drop-in, bio-based replacement for petrochemicals., produced with an assist from super-bacteria.
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More & Faster Offshore Wind Is The Aim Of Maersk’s New “Rube Goldberg” Workboat
Offshore wind foes may be hoping for a construction vessel shortage to throttle down the pace of development, but Maersk has a solution.
World’s Largest Rooftop Solar Power Plant To Be Built In Denmark
To be honest, I had never heard of the company SolarFuture before, but it certainly grabbed my attention when I learned it was going to build the largest rooftop solar power plant ever, less than 100 miles from where I live. SolarFuture was established in 2014 with a focus on … [continued]
Haewoori Offshore Wind 2 & 3 Award FEED Contract for 1GW Floating Project to Aker…
Haewoori Offshore Wind 2 (500MW) and 3 (500MW), Copenhagen Infrastructure Partner’s floating offshore wind projects off the coast of Ulsan, Korea have awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract to Aker Solutions and Principle Power for the floating foundations. As part of the scope, Aker Solutions will coordinate the … [continued]
$4 Million Opportunity to Advance Floating Offshore Wind Power
At a bilateral meeting today the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) and Innovation Fund Denmark announced an intent to release a $4.2 million opportunity to advance floating offshore wind energy systems toward cost-effective commercialization and wide-scale deployment. This announcement builds on a Memorandum of Understanding between DOE, … [continued]
A Test Of Camper Mode In A Blizzard In One Of Denmark’s 200,000 EVs
My wait for the 2023 numbers for auto sales in Denmark got interrupted by a blizzard so violent in my part of the country that I have personally never experienced anything like it. In a matter of a few hours, thousands of motorists got stranded on highways and motorways and … [continued]
Viking Link — World’s Longest HVDC Cable Connecting UK & Scandinavia Now Online
The world’s longest electricity cable connection, Viking Link, began pushing electrons from Denmark directly to the UK last week. The DKK 13 billion ($1.92 billion) investment has been almost 4 years in the making and is the first physical connection between the two otherwise completely separate energy systems. Viking Link … [continued]
Vestas May Expand Even Faster Onshore By Not Aiming For Even Bigger Wind Turbines
A couple of years ago when I visited the gigantic wind turbine test site at Østerild in northern Denmark, I wondered how big these things would end up being. It seems the efficiency limit is about to be within reach, and while this may not be the case in technical … [continued]
Tesla Strike In Sweden Now Involves Denmark, May Spread To Norway & Finland
Tesla is locked in a titanic struggle with Sweden’s largest labor union. The result could have repercussions around the world.
Denmark’s Car of the Year Awards Highlight the Fact that the US Can’t Have Nice…
As Jesper Berggren just wrote, for the 5th year in a row, an electric car won Denmark’s annual Car of the Year award. Just as notably, almost all of the finalists were electric cars. A few things stood out to me beyond what Jesper said or probably even thought. First, … [continued]
