The renewable energy super-grid is planned to become operational in 2020 and
will involve Europe's leading utilities, who will share part of the massive price tag.
The project would be the first multinational grid designed to address the fluctuating
nature of green power generation, one of the main challenges slowing down the
share of renewables in the baseload energy mix.
Energy from power produced from the wind farms at night could be stored in Norway's hydropower facilities to be released the following
day; helping to secure a more stable energy supply.
davidchapman on 20 Aug 07Hydrogen is a better source of energy than you think, according to Fujitsu. The Japanese electronics giant inaugurated a 200-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell from UTC on Friday that will provide electricity as well as heat to the buildings on its campus here. The fuel cell--which sits in the parking lot and looks like a pair of giant green dumpsters--provides two types of energy to the facility. First, a unit heats methane with steam to create hydrogen. The hydrogen is passed through a proton exchange membrane (PEM). The electricity produced by the reaction with the PEM runs lights, computers and other equipment
