Author: Zainab Gilani
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The Multi-Use Cases of Smart Transformers: Going Beyond Stepping Up and Down Voltage
The increasing complexity of the modern electrical grid, driven by the integration of distributed energy resources…
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Reducing Energy Consumption From Data Center Cooling By Eliminating Heat-Generating Components
As AI Energy Demands Grow, Improved Power Electronics Will Be Needed As AI becomes integrated into…
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Generating Carbon Offsets in Carbon Farming
Soil carbon and carbon farming deal with organic carbon that is present or stored in soil. …
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The Moving Target for Sodium-Ion Batteries: Innovation and Policies Shape the Evolving Market for Battery Technologies
As global supply chain challenges and uncertainty around lithium supplies persist, sodium-ion batteries will remain an…
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Fusion’s Inflection Point: Why Asia Is Getting Serious About the Next Great Energy Source
It’s a running joke in energy circles that fusion is always 20 years away. But as…
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Diversifying Approaches to Achieve Fusion: How Growing Demands for Energy Are Encouraging Investors to Back a Broad Variety of Fusion Systems
2024 was a standout year for fusion with multiple companies and technology types raising funds. As…
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Artificial Intelligence Will Require More Efficient Cooling and Innovation in Order to Scale Sustainably
As demands for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) grow, the IT hardware, energy infrastructure,…
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Technologies Improving Grid Resiliency are Needed to Respond to a Changing Climate
According to Climate Central, between 2000 and 2023, 80% of all U.S. power outages were due…
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Three Fusion Trends to Watch in 2024: Growth in Asia, Move Towards Stellarators, and Continued Advancement of Novel Fusion Technologies
In the realm of clean energy, the fusion sector is witnessing a shift marked by notable…
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Pathways Towards Decarbonizing Homes: Gaining Traction with Customers and Reducing Customer Acquisition Costs
The residential sector accounts 30% of global natural gas consumption (IEA) and 27% of global electricity…
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Will Small Modular Reactors Surpass Regulatory and Supply Chain Hurdles to Fill the Need for Stable, Baseload Power?
Global energy demands are expected to increase dramatically over the next few years. For decades, experts…
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Novel Fusion Systems: Z Pinch and Levitated Dipole Fusion Technologies
A few months ago, an article in The Economist highlighted six key players in the private…
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Marine Energy Systems: The Potential to Produce 2x the World’s Electricity Demand but Marred by a Sea of Challenges
Marine energy is often thought of as an untapped resource when it comes to renewable energy…
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Vanadium Flow Batteries vs. Alternative Battery Chemistries: Who Will Dominate the Medium-to-Long Duration Energy Storage Market Near-Term?
Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFBs) are proven technologies that are known to be durable and long…
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Regulatory and Supply Chain Enablers for the Fusion Industry
The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) hosted their second annual conference in late March and convened leaders…
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Nuclear Fusion: Accelerating Pathways to Commercialization
An Introduction to Nuclear Fusion Nuclear fusion is when two lighter atoms fuse together to produce…
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How Can We Address Water Scarcity and PFAS?
Water scarcity will continue to be an economic and environmental challenge in the coming years. The…
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Enzymatic Depolymerization and Recycling: Using Enzymes to Convert Linear Waste Streams into Circular Supply Chains
In the coming years, enzymatic recycling will play a crucial role in solving the challenges of…
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Growth of Anaerobic Digestion Technologies, Drivers and Challenges
In the Insight recently published, Demand for Renewable Natural Gas and Innovations in Biogas Upgrading (add…
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Demand for Renewable Natural Gas and Innovations in Biogas Upgrading
In order to reduce global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, sectors like agriculture (11% of…
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The State of the Water Sector
As the world’s freshwater supply decreases, the demand for freshwater will increase and so will the…
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