29th Feb 2024
We’re joined by our Cleantech & Energy team to talk all about innovations in wind energy. Wind technology is critical to the energy transition and achieving energy security. The team will assess the state of the industry and review what we can learn from published patent filings.
11th Nov 2021
Despite the scepticism they faced over the past few decades, renewables continues to become increasingly competitive in the energy landscape. In particular, the solar energy industry has seen an extremely rapid development in the past decade. In 2020 alone, we saw over 127 GW of new photovoltaic (PV) power generation capacity installed, leading to the total global PV power generation capacity of 707.5 GW (702.9 GW on-grid and 4.584 MW of off-grid [1]) at the end of 2020. This means more than one fifth of renewable energy in the world today is generated by PV technology.
29th Oct 2021
With COP26 fast approaching, the UK have a unique opportunity to lead the world in joining forces to act against climate change and safeguard the world for future generations. No single country and no single technology can solve climate change.
15th Jun 2021
This article is the second in our renewable energy patent tracker series. The first, published early March 2021, compared patent trends for renewable energy generation technology from 2016 to 2020 with data from the first two months of this year. Using the Y02 classification scheme developed by the EPO for labelling climate change mitigation technologies, we compared the number of publications in different renewable energy fields (solar PV, solar thermal, wind, geothermal, hydro and from the sea) and ranked the biggest patent filers in these areas. In this instalment, we update our statistics for this year, incorporating data from up until the 19th May, and extend our trend analysis over the ten years leading up to 2021.
24th May 2021
Last week, amid unseasonably windy and wet weather in the UK, National Grid reported a new record share of electricity demand being produced by wind turbines (62.5 %) throughout Great Britain. In a timely coincidence, in the same week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released a fascinating report on how a net zero (emissions) energy system may be achieved globally by 2050.
11th Mar 2021
This week, the UK government launched 3 new innovation challenges in the green energy sector, with £92 million allocated in funding. The initiative is part of the government’s £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio to drive forward the next generation of technologies which will help decarbonise the energy sector in the UK. It also forms part of the UK Governments 10 point plan, launched last year, to achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050.