Many researchers and students in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda struggle to access and publish scientific and technical articles because of financial barriers including publishing fees and subscriptions to research libraries. To help, IEEE has made its Xplore Digital Library more…
Fragrance, food and cosmetics ingredients producer Symrise announced the appointment of Carolina Gioscio as its new Chief Sustainability Officer. Gioscio takes on her new role leading Symrise’s “One Sustainability” team after more than 20 years at global chemicals company Evonik,…
The European battery storage market is gaining momentum, with 57 GWh of installations expected this year, according to EUPD Research’s latest Electrical Energy Storage (EES) Report. That would represent a 78% increase from the 32 GWh installed last year, with…
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) project developer Jet Zero Australia announced today that it has raised $30 million in a new funding round, with proceeds from the financing aimed at advancing the company’s Project Ulysses, a commercial-scale…
The UK government announced on Monday the launch of a major overhaul of its corporate reporting system, including significant potential changes to non-financial disclosure requirements by companies, such as proposals to remove mandatory reporting on issues including environmental impact, employee…
China has repotedly instituted an administrative domestic freeze on regulatory approvals for new battery manufacturing capacity. Authorities are conducting ‘an audit’ into operational and planned pipelines across stationary energy storage and electric vehicle cells. The suspension was first reported over…
Canadian pension fund OPTrust is seeking an exit from Australian clean-energy retailer and developer Flow Power, according to a report by The Australian Financial Review’s ‘Street Talk’, an investment and corporate deal-making reporting column, that frequently flags major renewable asset…
Tech giant Google, Tesla, utility Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), and distributed energy resource (DER)-focused company Sunrun are launching a new virtual power plant (VPP) in California, US.
Vietnam is preparing to transition its power system beyond basic Time-of-Use (TOU) tariffs and industrial demand response programs toward virtual power plants (VPPs). According to a publication by Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) via its Industry Agency and…
Pakistan’s National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved plans to require bidders in a renewable energy auction to include energy storage.