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Electric buses may be one of the best uses of electrified mass transit, because they move large numbers of people each day they are in service. Their electric motors are more energy efficient than internal combustion engines and they have regenerative braking. They also don’t directly generate toxic emissions, so … [continued]
The UK’s ZEV mandate required that 22% of new vehicle sales be zero-emission vehicle (electric vehicle) sales in 2024. The industry exceeded that, though, according to data just released by the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT). Well, that is, if you take CO2 credits in the Vehicle Emissions Trading Scheme … [continued]
Chatgpt generated illustration showing how transmission buffering batteries store excess solar generation and release it later through the same transmission line.
Buffering batteries placed near transmission constraints are rarely listed among grid enhancing technologies. The usual list includes advanced conductors, dynamic line rating, and power flow control devices. All of those technologies increase the instantaneous capacity of transmission lines. Batteries do not do that. A battery cannot turn a 500 MW … [continued]
Timeline of UK Hinkley nuclear reactor delays against 75% grid decarbonization with renewables by author
The latest announcement about Hinkley Point C was predictable. The first reactor at the plant in Somerset is now expected to begin generating electricity in 2030. The cost estimate has climbed again, now reaching roughly £35B in 2015 pounds or about £49B in current money according to Electricité de France. … [continued]
A new round of tidal energy activity is beginning to surface in the US, including a plan to install slim, powerful tidal turbines from the Scottish firm Orbital Marine Power in Washington State.
December saw plugin EVs at 43.8% share in the UK, up from 40.0% year on year, with BEVs alone taking 32.2% share. Full year 2025 saw EVs at 34.6% share, up from 28.1% in 2024. Overall December auto volume was 146,249 up some 4% YoY. Full year 2025 auto volume … [continued]
The UK is putting up 1 billion pounds to promote local clean energy projects that will provide benefits to communities, not investors.
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The venerable BBC just reported that 10,000 new EV chargers will be installed in Kent, UK. Kent is a county in southeast England, perhaps most well known as the location of Canterbury Cathedral and the white cliffs of Dover. Charles Dickens had a home there and he took long walks … [continued]
At every stage of technological development, you get laggards who don’t want to move forward and make that new technology into some kind of massive risk or problem. That has been proven quite definitively with clean energy technologies. Solar power and wind power come with so many benefits and so … [continued]
Floating photovoltaic solar power energy output in the United Kingdom was studied by University of Exeter researchers recently and they found a particular kind of tracking could increase yearly energy production by about 26%. In their research paper, they noted: “Azimuthal tracking FPV boosts annual energy production by up to … [continued]
