Magazines

We can all agree that renewables are the future for clean electricity generation, but what should support this growing sector – gas with carbon capture or nuclear power, or both? If nuclear, are the days of building full-scale reactors coming to an end, to be replaced with modular alternatives? Nick Cottam ponders.

Some European governments have been sceptical, or outright hostile, towards nuclear energy for decades. Now the countries which are doing away with their fission power plants are reckoning with the tricky issue of decommissioning, write Liz Newmark, in Brussels; Jens Kastner, in Hamburg; and Brenda Dionisi in Milan.

Affordable renewable power and economies of scale mean that cost competitive ‘green’ hydrogen could be a reality sooner than anticipated. Jennifer Johnson reviews recent data and project announcements to assess the market’s trajectory.

Wave-powered subsea energy storage technologies might, at first glance, appear to have limited applications. Here, Andrew Williams explores their practical uses.

For hydrogen to play its part in the energy transition, investment and economies of scale are badly needed. Supportive policies are now key to unlocking its potential in the UK, writes Bill Ireland, CEO of Logan Energy.

While oil prices have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, the energy transition potentially poses a longer-term challenge for the Caspian’s hydrocarbons sector, writes Joseph Murphy.

The challenges of aligning policy and private capital for net zero infrastructure investment are examined by Colin Smith and Adrian del Maestro of PwC.

Can ammonia be viewed as an economically efficient and technologically suitable solution to address large-scale, long-duration storage in the decarbonised energy systems of the future? ask Aliaksei Patonia and Rahmatallah Poudineh of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES).

Floating wind power initiatives are being ramped up as developers ponder how to reduce costs. Robert Stokes reports.