Energy News Monitoring

Bloomberg L.P. is a software, data and media company with its headquarters in New York. It offers financial software tools and enterprise applications such as an analytics and equity trading platform, data services and news to financial companies and organizations through the Bloomberg Terminal. The company annually releases a ranking of the most innovative countries, which can be found on the company homepage. The ranking uses 7...

People have long been looking for ways to replicate biological machinery with non-biological components and artificially-created cells that fulfil a key biological function of transforming light into chemical energy. Now (2019), scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have designed cell-like hollow capsule structures through spontaneous self-assembly of hybrid gold-silver nanorods held together...

As the continuation of the previous review (Wind Energy 2018/ key indicators), the results of patenting activity of major applicants from patent applications dedicated to horizontal-axis wind turbines in 2018 are briefly evaluated here. 1583 patent applications were collected for the analysis, and are represented by 301 applicants from 29 countries and filed in 28 patent offices around the world. The methodology of searching and...

The 2020 edition of the annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI-2020) published by Germanwatch, the New Climate Institute and the Climate Action Network ranks 57 countries and the EU within four categories that were established in 2017: greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, energy use and climate policy. CCPI evaluates the performance of the countries on their way to 2030 targets and the well-below-2°C compatibility. The...

Wind energy is one of the most intensively developing sectors of renewable energy. To a great extent this is promoted by abundant inventive activity. This review represents statistical indicators that characterize major priorities of inventors based on the patent applications registered during 2018 in the patent offices around the world. In the process of the patent search a set of patent applications related to horizontal axis wind...

Converters of solar energy with concentrators are used to produce both electric and thermal energy. Power plants with parabolic mirrors or a central receiver in combination with thermal energy storage systems allow the concept of efficient storage of renewable energy to be implemented on a large scale. Concentrators in combination with photovoltaics can significantly increase the efficiency of solar modules. Recent engineering advances...

The present review contains data on 723 patent applications that were collected as of the date of this publication for the inventions registered in 2018 by 252 applicants from 25 countries in 29 patent offices around the world in the field related to the production of synthetic fuels (synthesis gas and its derivatives, liquid hydrocarbons via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, direct coal liquefaction, etc.). About 88% of patent applications...

The 2019 edition of the annual World Oil Outlook (WOO-2019) published by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) looks at trends in the global economy and energy developments with a particular emphasis on oil supply and demand. This concerns upstream and downstream sectors, latest technology advances, policy and environment developments. Various indicators analysed in the report (GDP growth, the global population,...

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 2018 on topics related to the conversion of solar energy using various types of concentrators. In total, during the patent search, as of the date of this review, 1,442 patent applications were identified, which were filed by 741 applicants from 43 countries and...

The proposed review analyses the inventive activity of the major participants who registered their patent applications in 2018 in the field related to the production of synthetic fuel (synthesis gas, liquid fuel from synthesis gas, methanol and its derivatives, direct coal liquefaction, etc.). In total, 723 patent applications accepted for detailed analysis by 29 patent offices around the world and prepared by 252 applicants from 25...