Quantumscape Moves A Step Forward With Its Solid State Battery Updated On Thu, Jul 11th, 2024 by Saurenergy In an important development, QuantumScape just shipped its latest solid-state battery cell, dubber Alpha-2 to prospective customers. This is considered a massive stride for solid-state cell technology, demonstrating that the technology is close to ready for mass-deployment. QuantumScape has been widely credited with pushing the case for solid state batteries until now, although recently Chinese […] Read more
Africa Solar Progress: The Next Solar Frontier? Updated On Mon, Jul 8th, 2024 by Saurenergy Africa is a gold mine, both literally and figuratively. Providing essential resources for the global transition to clean energy, Africa also holds immense potential for renewable energy development. By 2023, the continent had 62.11 GW of renewable energy capacity installed, a figure that could rise substantially with more funding. Africa as a continent – and […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains- What’s the Stink Around Carbon Credits? Updated On Wed, Jun 5th, 2024 by Saurenergy On today’s episode of why we can’t have good things easily, carbon credits get to be in the limelight. Originally proposed in 1997 with the Kyoto Protocol as a way for companies to fund the development of renewable and carbon-offsetting projects, carbon credits utilize third party firms who sell carbon credits and use the money […] Read more
SaurEnergy Explains- Why Is Data Centre Capacity Measured In MWs? Updated On Mon, Jun 3rd, 2024 by Saurenergy Data Centres have moved to the front of the conversation around rising energy demand, what with the spread of digital usage, and more recently, the hype around AI or Artificial Intelligence. Readers have asked us to explain why these data centres bring built to serve the ever growing demand for computing power and information storage […] Read more
Renewable Careers- Courses That Promise A Career Push Updated On Fri, May 24th, 2024 by Saurenergy “Should you get a degree in renewable energy?” is the question of the week. With global warming reaching critical levels, governments across the world are scrambling to set up renewable energy sources, whether it be wind, hydro or solar farms. New jobs will be created, most of them being paying well. This is where an […] Read more
5 Ways Lower Storage Costs Will Affect Solar Deployment Updated On Tue, Jan 16th, 2024 by Saurenergy Ever since 2015, when solar started being added at scale every year, all stakeholders have known the biggest challenge it will ultimately face. Intermittency. Or more simply, what to do when the sun goes down. That is why cheap and efficient storage has been considered almost like the golden key that will unlock solar possibilities […] Read more
Top 5 Technologies Set To Make An Impact In Solar Deployment Updated On Fri, Jan 5th, 2024 by Saurenergy Solar has gone through a lot of changes in the past decade, going from barely viable to a technology that looks to be the future of energy generation. With that in mind, let’s have a look at the top 5 technologies that will play key roles in improving solar going into the future. Silicon heterojunction […] Read more
Top 5 Countries With The Fastest Increase In Solar Capacity In 2023 Updated On Thu, Jan 4th, 2024 by Saurenergy As 2023 comes to an end and 2024 is upon is, it could be considered an interesting exercise in retrospect to look upon the countries that shone in terms of adding solar capacity in the past year, leading the rest of us into the future. Here are the top 5 countries with the fastest increase […] Read more
Airloom Promises To Slash Wind Power Costs, Attracts Investment From Bill Gates Updated On Thu, Jan 4th, 2024 by Saurenergy Bill Gates has backed Airloom Energy, a Wyoming-based wind energy startup, which claims to have created a technology which claims to slash wind turbine costs by nearly 70%. Founded by Robert Lumley, Airloom is led by Neal Rickner, who has also spent time (nearly a decade) at Google and Google[x] leading teams, most notably serving […] Read more
