Energy News Monitoring

Bloomberg L.P. is a financial, software, data, and media company with its headquarters located in New York City. Every year, the company publishes the Bloomberg Innovation Index, which is a global ranking of the 60 most innovative countries. To compile the rankings, Bloomberg uses data from institutions such as the World Bank, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the OECD and...

The present review includes key indicators of patenting activity of inventors in the field of wind energy in 2019 that were found as a result of a deliberate search and processed on the date of this publication. 2125 patent applications with technical content related to horizontal axis wind turbines registered in 23 patent offices around the world during the year under consideration were collected for the analysis. Almost 500...

The European Power Sector Report is an annual review of the status of energy transition in the electricity sector in Europe. For the fifth year in a row the German think-tank Agora Energiewende, dedicated to developing factual and politically viable strategies for a clean energy transition in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world, and Ember, a British independent climate think-tank focused on the global transition from coal to...

In view of the ongoing energy transition, expanding electricity grids has become an increasingly important task. This task comprises, first and foremost, connecting renewable plants as well as energy storage systems to the grid – no mean feat considering that the power electronics of the existing grid infrastructure must now also perform additional grid-supporting tasks, alongside the mere feed-in or feed-back of electrical energy. To...

The statistical office of the European Union, Eurostat, has updated data on renewable energy in the EU in 2019, providing statistics on the share of energy from all renewable sources in general and specifically in three consumption sectors - electricity, heating and cooling, and transport.  In 2019, renewable energy accounted for 19.7 % of the energy used in the EU-27. This is just 0.3% below the target of a 20% share of...

Baker Hughes has published its 2020 global operating oil and gas rig totals. Its reports have been produced for North America since 1944 and globally since 1975, calculated using their own methodology. A change in the number of rigs may be indicative of the level of business activity in the oil and gas sector and form the basis for forecasting future oil and gas production. This year’s data presents a significant observation; there...

Times Higher Education (THE) is a weekly magazine based in London, which publishes information and news related to higher education. It has gained recognition for releasing annual university rankings - the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and first appeared in November 2004. This year’s rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021, comprise more than 1,500 universities throughout 93 countries...

The present overview includes a brief analysis of key applicants based on the selection of the latest patent applications in the field of unconventional oil production for 2019. In total, 1643 documents from 30 patent offices around the world were selected for examination. These applications were developed with the participation of 424 applicants from 25 countries. The most productive applicant in 2019 in the field under consideration...

The current review includes key statistical indicators that were identified as a result of the analysis of patent applications filed in the patent offices around the world in 2019 on topics related to unconventional oil production. In total, during the patent search, as of the date of this review, 1,643 patent applications were identified, which were filed by 424 applicants from 25 countries and registered in 30 world patent offices....

Modern life relies heavily on the efficient functioning of catalysts. They can improve chemical reactions, are indispensable in many industrial manufacturing processes, and can even contribute to reducing emissions. They are also an integral part in battery design and transportation. It is all the more astonishing, therefore, that the exact mechanisms of a catalyst are still not entirely understood by science. Now (2021), scientists...