Aenert news. Energy TrendsThe development of renewable energy is a crucial step in addressing climate change and ensuring sustainable economic growth, creating new jobs and developing energy security. IRENA's LEVERAGING LOCAL CAPACITY series examines concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, which, although not yet widespread, is potentially an important player in the renewable energy...

Aenert news. Energy TrendsThe recently published report Wind Energy in Europe  by the non-profit association WindEurope offers annual trends and statistics on wind farms across Europe in 2024. It analyzes data from the 27 EU member states and other European countries, covering both onshore and offshore installations, and provides figures on the total cumulative capacity of each country....

Aenert news. Energy TrendsThe global energy sector continues its progressive movement towards new peaks of electricity supply and demand. The past year 2024 was no exception. Wind power is playing an increasingly prominent role in this process, although the growth rate of this participation has noticeably weakened. In 2023, a record increase in new installed capacity was achieved (116 GW,...

Aenert news. Energy TrendsRystad Energy, a leading energy analytics and consulting company, has released its 2025 forecast. The forecast is based on several tectonic events that took place in the previous year. Among them are increased geopolitical uncertainty, the newly elected US president’s clear desire for energy dominance, uncertainty about the state of the Chinese economy, and the...

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...