Aenert news. Energy Market & Energy StatisticsEurostat published statistics on the development of electricity prices both for household and non-household consumers within the European Union (EU) and a range of other non-member European countries comparing  the first half of 2024 with the first half of 2023. As can be seen from the graph below, the lowest electricity prices in the EU in the...

Aenert news. Energy TrendsSignificant advances in the creation and improvement of lithium-ion batteries have made it possible to saturate the markets with various useful devices that use the energy stored in them. These include electric cars, laptops, smartphones, energy storage systems and much more. The severe decline in lithium resource prices further contributed to this. A 2022 study by...

Aenert news. Energy resources and infrastructureThe extraction of natural hydrogen from the bowels of the earth is today considered a very promising area in renewable energy. Hydrogen is expected to solve a large range of industrial and environmental problems, including energy storage and reducing emissions from heavy transport. The original idea was quite simple: produce green hydrogen by electrolysis using...

Aenert news. Energy TrendsThe past year has been a real test for the wind energy industry. Many previous ideas about this technology have been seriously challenged, leading to promising new trends. Moreover, the year has become fruitful for various kinds of records, which are often prohibitive in nature, but obviously will soon become everyday events. Let us recall that in 2022, according to...

Aenert news. Energy TrendsAs is tradition, the editors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's MIT Technology Review recently unveiled a new list of the 10 most important technologies for 2024. The full list, in order of mention, includes: AI for everything, Super-efficient solar cells, Apple Vision Pro, Weight-loss drugs, Enhanced geothermal systems, Chiplets, The first gene-editing...

Aenert news. Energy CompaniesWind power is a critical tool in the transition from fossil fuels to carbon-free energy. In a number of large countries, for example, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, the share of wind energy in total electricity generation exceeds 20%. In Denmark this share is close to 50%. Between 2013 and 2022, wind power capacity tripled. By the beginning of 2023, the main...

Aenert news. Energy TrendsPhotovoltaics is one of the most dynamically developing sectors of renewable energy. In 2022, the total installed photovoltaic capacity significantly exceeded 1000 GW. A year earlier, the share of solar photovoltaics in global electricity generation from all sources reached 3.8%. Ten years ago this was hard to believe, since at that time this share did not exceed...

Aenert news. Energy CompaniesSolar photovoltaics continue to show consistent and promising results. According to Irena, at the end of 2022, the total installed capacity worldwide exceeds 1,000 GW, significantly outpacing wind power. The largest photovoltaic capacity is concentrated in China – 37.5% or 392.5 GW, Europe – 21.5% or 225.5 GW and the US – 10.7% or 111.5 GW. Together, these three...

Aenert news. Energy CompaniesWind power is one of the key areas of renewable energy, which is the main hope in the efforts to counteract climate change. This predetermines considerable interest in the current state of this industry. Recently, the wind energy industry has faced a number of logistical, technological and financial difficulties, which have had a noticeable impact on production...

Aenert news. Energy Market & Energy StatisticsThe Global Renewable Energy Report (GSR) from REN21 has changed this year's design and structure, dividing the report into 5 separate sections, the first of which was recently released and focuses on energy demand with special modules on buildings, industry, transportation and agriculture. During 2022, energy prices in Europe and elsewhere rose sharply to their...