Photo: Foto: arhiv GET ecoSlovenian Innovation Converts Plastic Waste into Fuel and Electricity
May 28, 2020 | Valerija HozjanNew technologies | Startup | En.vision
One of the three Slovenian startups participating in InnoEnergy’s PowerUp! Challenge is Get Eco, a company addressing a major environmental issue: mixed plastic waste. Using a prototype machine, which is now in the development phase, the company is currently testing a pyrolysis-based technology (depolymerisation) to convert mixed plastic waste into new products that can replace bitumen...
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Photo: Roman PeklajCompanies That Use the New Sustainable Economic Model Are More Successful
May 25, 2020 | Peter PalčecRES and EE | Energy policy | Economy
“The coronavirus pandemic has shown the vulnerability of our current economy model. Our economy was already becoming unstable again even before the crisis, according to some analyses. Now the economy is changing. We need to experiment with new economic and political models. Thus, we must not only increase efficiency, but also innovate and look for new solutions. This will drive the new economic...
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Photo: BISOL GroupIs it Time for an Energy System with Lower Emissions?
May 20, 2020 | Dag KraljRES and EE | Energy policy | En.vision
Although the pandemic has created a situation which calls for fundamental changes in nearly every industry, the world was especially stirred by the news of a drop in greenhouse gas emissions and a slump in the price of oil and other non-renewable energy sources. This unenviable situation in the oil market has serious implications for the stability of the global economy, inevitably creating the...
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Photo: Evropski parlamentLessons Learnt from COVID-19: The New Normal vs. the Old Normal
May 14, 2020 | Franc BogovičRES and EE | Energy policy | New technologies | En.vision
Before the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged and the COVID-19 pandemic started, life used to be quite normal for all of us living in Slovenia, Europe or across the globe. In our fast-paced lives, we could go about our business as usual, travel without restrictions across open borders, and gather at public events. We lived in a globalised world where Europe transferred much of its manufacturing...
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Photo: Energetika.NET archiveMontel’s Podcast: Energy Sector Post COVID-19 Will Move Towards RES
May 13, 2020 | Peter PalčecElectricity | RES and EE | Energy policy | CO2 emissions | Economy
“Europe’s power sector after the coronavirus pandemic will see a lot of changes. First of all, the squeeze on liquidity means that people will be cautious about investments. We will also probably see a big change in Europe’s energy mix. It is now becoming evident that essential operations that require fuels are less of a priority, because they incur higher marginal costs. In general, 2020...
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Photo: S. Miles/FreeDigitalPhotos.netGreen Energy Could Power COVID-19 Recovery with USD 98tn Global GDP Boost
May 8, 2020 | Tanja SrnovršnikRES and EE | Energy policy | Economy
Investing in renewable energy could power an economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis by spurring global GDP gains of USD 98 trillion between now and 2050, according to the first Global Renewables Outlook released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in April....
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Photo: Samo TrebižanLet Us Make Our Future Carbon Neutral
May 4, 2020 | Nina Bračko ColjaCO2 emissions | Economy | Ecology | En.vision
We all have sunny days when we wake up, look up into the sky and feel as if the day could not get any clearer, or the air we breathe any cleaner. Unfortunately, this is an illusion. Earth has seen record high annual temperatures twice over the last five years, with 2016 and 2019 confirmed by NASA as the hottest years in recorded history. This can hardly be a coincidence. In fact, the last five...
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Photo: GENSecurity of Power Supply – One of the Few Certainties in Uncertain Times
April 28, 2020 | Danijel LevičarElectricity | Energy policy | Economy
The Covid-19 pandemic has turned our lives upside down. Fleeting news items on the efforts to contain a new virus in China had suddenly escalated into alarming reports about the uncontrollable spread of the virus across Europe and the urgent need to take strong measures to control it....
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Photo: IJSWhat Do Nuclear Chain Reactions and Epidemics Have in Common?
April 23, 2020 | Dr. Leon CizeljElectricity | Economy | En.vision
A lot, in fact. Let us start with the fact that both can be controlled. While the chain reaction in a nuclear reactor was first controlled more than 75 years ago, Covid-19 has, in Slovenia at least, been controlled very effectively over the past week or two, according to the latest data. Both are also something people need to learn to live with. However, thanks to the in-depth, long-term public...
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Photo: Anže PetkovšekCoronavirus Pandemic Calls for Reflection
April 20, 2020 | Marjan EberlincNatural gas | En.vision
Just over one month after the Slovenian gas TSO had to adjust to working in exceptional circumstances, the first comments and thoughts can be shared about how the situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic will affect the energy sector as well as the operation and future development of the gas transmission infrastructure in the long term....
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