Author: Arnes Biogradlija
Arnes Biogradlija
Arnes Biogradlija is the founder and Editor in Chief of EnergyNews.biz, which he launched in 2021 to separate energy transition realities from fairy tales. He writes data driven analysis on hydrogen, energy storage, small modular reactors, grids and industrial policy, and leads the Energy Talks interview series. EnergyNews.biz reporting has been cited more than 100 times by the International Energy Agency.
A 2030 optimisation study of five shipped fuels finds electricity is at least 41 percent of every delivered cost, shipping is minor even over 10,000 km, and liquid hydrogen needs about 76 times the shipping capex of ammonia per MW.
A Journal of Energy Storage study finds that in 2024 battery dispatch followed day-ahead prices at r² 0.88 in California and 0.73 in Texas, a measure of price following that does not by itself show a carbon benefit.
Daejeon’s 38.8 km hydrogen tram, billed as the longest catenary free line in the world, is now expected to open in 2030 instead of 2028, while Ulsan’s 10.85 km first section carries the first proof point in 2029.
A review in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy puts the room temperature hydrogen capacity of metal organic frameworks generally below 1 wt%, against a US DOE on-board system target of 6.5 wt%, and flags the gap between powders and prototypes.
Global X launched an SMR ETF of about 15 companies whose top 10 holdings carry 97.8 percent of the weight, as the IEA scenario of 1,000 SMRs by 2050 would need about $670 billion of cumulative investment against about $5 billion a year now.
The European Investment Bank agreed up to €40 million in a convertible loan to Finland’s Steady Energy for its 50 MW thermal LDR-50 district heating reactor, its first SMR investment, with construction not due to start before 2029.
A review in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy says replacing oxygen evolution with ethylene glycol oxidation from PET waste can lower the anode potential by up to 1 V while co-producing chemicals and hydrogen.
The founder of Europe’s largest second-life storage factory says the model lost to cheaper new cells, and that is good news: Germany needs about 100 GWh of stationary storage by 2030 against about 25 GWh installed, and prices keep falling.
BCA Industries has designed a mobile battery recycling system on two semitrailers that it says captures about half the available high purity black mass on site, but throughput, cost and regulatory status are not disclosed.
An Italian engineering venture is developing a machine that converts the restless motion of the sea into electricity while potentially serving as a breakwater and floating coastal structure. Its central idea is deceptively simple: let the waves move water, use that motion to drive air to flow in one direction, and extract energy with a turbine. The difficult part is proving that the system can survive the ocean long enough to make the promise commercially meaningful. The energy hiding in every wave A wave advances towards the shoreline, gathers itself against the shallows and breaks. Water surges forward, retreats and…
