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Energy World December 2017
Renewables and fossil fuels are the main, and contrasting, feature themes in this month's issue. The former kicks off with a piece describing the development of a programme for new renewables-based power stations in South Africa.
From there we move to Ethiopia and the efforts being made to expand and diversify its surprisingly large renewables sector. Renewables are aided on the grid by energy storage technologies, so we also take a close look at a project to double the output of a pumped storage hydroelectric scheme in Switzerland.
Further articles describe ‘biorefining’ of wastes in Scotland and the growing use of ground source heat pumps to decarbonise heat supplies. Switching to fossils, we continue with two articles on the position of natural gas – from exports of LNG from the US, to gas versus coal in Europe. We also look at Germany’s continued reliance on brown coal, or lignite; and how new government policies
Issue details
Journal title: Energy World
Publisher: Energy Institute
Organisation: Energy Institute
Content in this issue:Subjects: Storage, Carbon capture, transportation and storage, Liquefied natural gas, Natural gas, Solid fossil fuels and derived products, Renewables, Energy policy, Climate change, Bioenergy
