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NEWS 25 June 2024

Dancing foam rods guide fish to safety

Persuading fish to find their way past hydro power plants successfully has presented a challenge ... solution that involves using dancing rods made of water-resistant cellulose foam to guide the fish ...

NEWS 24 April 2018

Water is her element

News Water is her element As a child she spent hours on the bow of a boat looking at the water, now she ... relationship with nature and water” says Marja Rankila I've been fascinated by water eve...

NEWS 1 August 2018

Warm cooling water forces Swedish nuclear reactor Ringhals 2 out of operation

News Warm cooling water forces Swedish nuclear reactor Ringhals 2 out of operation After reactor 2 at ... continued warm weather in Sweden has brought the sea water close to 25 degrees during recent d...

NEWS 10 March 2023

International women’s week: Mathilde gets surprised every day

It was actually her interest in water that brought Mathilde Lindhardt Damsgaard into wind power development

NEWS 3 May 2023

On the road to net zero with sewage and algae

District heating is an efficient way of providing sustainable heating solutions by replacing ... would, however, be surprised if they knew that water from toilets, rivers, production of algae and porc...

NEWS 3 April 2019

New test facility increases fish migration past hydro power plants

A unique test ... facility for studying the behaviour of fish in running water and around power plants has now been inaugurated

NEWS 24 June 2024

Restoring peatland: From carbon leak to biodiverse carbon sink

growing, and it also retains significant amounts of water, creating waterlogged conditions that inhibit decomposition ... compress the surface. The process helps retain the water on the surface and en...

NEWS 28 November 2023

How using sewage for your shower helps the climate

We literally flush a huge part of produced energy right down the drain. But the hot sewage ... your neighbours can be used to heat your shower water again - whilst also helping to achieve climate goal...

NEWS 13 July 2022

Germany's largest heat storage in the starting blocks

Germany's largest heat accumulator is expected to be commissioned at the start of next year. The heat storage ... plant in Berlin and is now being filled with a water volume of around 350,000 bath...

NEWS 25 June 2024

Are bats and wind turbines a viable cocktail at sea?

while others migrate long distances across marine waters. For instance, parts of the population of the Nathusius’ ... behaviour at sea. Some of them fly low over the water surface and there’s little r...

NEWS 25 June 2024

Match making: how energy transition and biodiversity can coexist

The energy sector needs to transition to fossil-free production to mitigate the impact of climate ... develop standards when it comes to land use or water impacts. It could be several different busine...

NEWS 23 April 2024

Pumped hydro storage: the Swiss Army knife of the energy industry

of energy in the form of water into a basin or reservoir. When stored water is released and passes through ... hydroelectric power stations to store energy in the form of water essentially turns them ...

NEWS 23 April 2024

Offshore wind farms – why they appeal to wildlife

boost the overall fish population,” Bergström says. Water replenishment holes adapted for marine life Tim ... Wilms To avoid stagnant water in the turbine foundation causing corrosion, water repl...

NEWS 8 February 2024

Vattenfall receives top marks for its climate work

Vattenfall has received highest rating in the Carbon Disclosure Project’s (CDP) environmental disclosure ... their work on climate change, deforestation or water security, based on a large number of i...

NEWS 27 March 2024

Building energy resilience in the face of climate change

nuclear power, increased water temperatures will make it harder to obtain cooling water. For hydropower, challenges ... and the energy system, including solar power on water which can reduce evaporati...

NEWS 28 May 2024

Innovative energy: Space solar and airborne wind turbines

elements: earth, wind, sun, and water. Wind to drive boats and mills, water to turn wheels, the Sun to generate ... sand to about 600 degrees Celsius. As opposed to water, which has a significantly lo...

NEWS 23 January 2024

Finding the solutions will absolutely not be easy

the clay causes irreversible damage to land and water resources. Despite the large-scale adoption of various ... plaster of Paris, rice straw, wood sawdust, salt, and water. The bricks were sun-dried ...

NEWS 3 August 2018

Swedish nuclear reactor Ringhals 2 back in operation

18:00 Friday 3 August. nuclear The too warm sea water (more than 25 degrees Celsius) was not capable of ... the weather conditions had improved and the sea water temperature had dropped to a lev...

NEWS 28 March 2024

Vattenfall to participate in the Dutch offshore wind tender IJmuiden Ver with ‘Zeevonk’

Vattenfall has decided to enter a bid for the sites, Alpha and Beta, of the Dutch IJmuiden ... bioluminescence, illuminating the sea, and giving the water a bright blue glow that can be seen at night....

NEWS 9 February 2024

Vattenfall reviews HySkies project scope

Vattenfall and Shell are reviewing the scope for the HySkies electrofuel project with the ... fossil free electricity, recycled carbon dioxide and water will be the only inputs to the process of makin...

NEWS 21 September 2018

Survival

could be the rough waters of the North Sea and the ten men and women in the water the remainder of the ... to the offshore wind farm. There in the surging water, Christesen finds it all realistic enou...

NEWS 23 April 2024

Has the time come to turn the tide into energy?

In the UK, the need for predictable, fossil-free and preferably indigenous energy has revived ... Severn, is filled and drained. This movement of water potentially offers a huge opportunity to generat...

NEWS 27 February 2024

Five better things do with carbon dioxide

Instead of regarding carbon dioxide as a threat, we should realise it’s an essential element ... hydrogen is made from renewable electricity and water. Methanol is also great because it is an intermed...

NEWS 26 January 2017

Reducing industrial emissions

process, water vapour is formed instead of carbon dioxide, and hydrogen can be produced from water by electricity ... Manager. Facts Hydrogen Hydrogen is produced from water by electrolysis. When two ...

NEWS 26 September 2017

Pilot project uses salt for energy storage

adding water to the dry salt, calcium oxide, the salt turns into calcium hydroxide. The water starts ... degrees Celsius. If you add hot steam instead of water to the salt, the steam temperature will ...

NEWS 19 April 2024

"We need to understand the real risk wind farms pose to birds"

Thermal cameras will record bird collisions at the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm in a ... bird hits a wind turbine at sea, it falls into the water and floats away. By placing 16 thermal imaging camera...

NEWS 23 April 2018

The hidden power plant

room for four fully equipped power plant units, a water treatment facility and huge oil storage caverns ... side door, we find a complete water treatment facility. It draws water from a lake six kilom...

NEWS 4 December 2019

Vattenfall helps eels migrate safely

plants in the Netherlands. "Q is the quantity of water, and h is the height difference. Together, these ... they respond to the amount of pheromones in the water," says Henk Vis, Manager Dec...

NEWS 19 November 2020

Heating of Amsterdam: every source needed

studies on the use of residual heat from the cooling water of existing and future data centres have started ... need heat pumps to raise the temperature of the water," Dehue says. Poorte adds: &q...

NEWS 6 August 2018

Vattenfall to supplement hydro power with solar power

storage plant with solar plant to the left of the water pipes Vattenfall is further expanding its solar ... electricity system can be used to pump large amounts of water from a lower reservoir to an u...