Energy News Monitoring

Unconventional oil (Heavy oil, Oil shale, Oil sands) is becoming an increasingly important component of the hydrocarbon resource base, but its exploration, production and processing require a significant revision of traditional technologies, additional research and development of new technical solutions. To assess the prevailing research interests and identify the most productive authors and organizations, a selection of relevant...

Today, most electrical devices and electric vehicles use lithium-ion batteries for power supply. These batteries, however, suffer from certain drawbacks concerning energy density and performance. One type of these batteries, called lithium-sulphur batteries, is able to offer more energy density and lower cost than the traditional graphite/metal oxide lithium-ion battery. The only problem is that their performance is often impaired by a...

Today, heat pumps are increasingly developing into a sustainable and efficient alternative to furnaces in climates with moderate heating and cooling needs. Heat pumps are systems that move heat from one place to another by using a compressor and a circulating structure of liquid or gas refrigerant, through which heat is extracted from outside sources and pumped indoors. As heat pumps only move heat, heat pumps enable space conditioning...

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication which analyses the overall performance of universities worldwide. The rankings are released by the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine. The universities are judged across a variety of different fields: teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook. To achieve this, 13 performance indicators have been designed to...

Methanex Corporation was incorporated in 1968 and is a Canadian company, the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol to the major international markets in Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and South America. The total annual production capacity of the company, including Methanex interests in jointly owned plants, is currently 9.4 million tonnes and is located in New Zealand, the United States, Trinidad, Egypt, Canada...

Calpine Corporation is America’s largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources with operations in key competitive power markets. Founded in 1984, the company has 79 power plants in operation or under construction and represents 26,000 megawatts of generation capacity. The company has 64 natural gas-fired combustion turbine-based plants, one natural gas and fuel oil-fired steam-based plant, 13 geothermal...

Enel Américas S.A. is one of the largest publicly-listed companies in the electricity sector in South America, headquartered in Chile. The company was organized in 1981 and through its subsidiaries and affiliates it is engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity businesses in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru.  Since June 2009, the controlling shareholder has been the Italian company Enel,...

This message provides information about the key applicants who registered the largest number of patent applications in 2018 in the field of technologies related to the production of energy from bioresources, including the production of biogas, biofuels from cellulose, algae or syngas. In total, more than 1,600 patent documents from 36 patent offices around the world and prepared by 836 representatives from 42 countries were selected...

The lithium-ion battery is one of the most common battery types for all sorts of technical devices. It can be used to power cell phones, laptops, power tools or electric vehicles. It is small wonder, therefore, that businesses around the world invest billions to make this industry grow. For many years now, scientists have been searching for electrode materials and electrolytes that can help improve lithium-ion batteries so that they...

November 2019 will be very busy for renewable energy events in the form of international exhibitions and conferences. Offshore wind energy, photovoltaics, the LED industry, energy storage, CSP – this is not a complete list of industrial topics  the organizers are inviting participants to review at their events. At the end of November the annual WindEurope Offshore 2019 exhibition and conference on the subject of how offshore...