RWE, the German company in the energy sector, will invest during 2022 more than 5,000 million euros, equivalent to 5,100 million dollars, to increase its green energy projects, which represents 30 percent more than initially planned for this year.

According to what was announced by the second energy producer in Germany, the portfolio of green generation projects contains “offshore and onshore wind energy, solar energy, batteries and hydrogen economy”.

The chairman of the board of directors, Markus Krebber, highlighted that during the first half of the year “20 percent more electricity was generated from renewable energies than in the same period of the previous year”.

According to Krebber the “expansion of our green portfolio, which is 30 percent more than originally planned. All of this is urgently needed to make the energy supply more independent and climate-neutral.”

RWE includes as its main business the generation of electricity from alternative sources and natural gas, and is also responsible, together with its subsidiaries, for distributing electricity, gas and water to Europe and North America.

Increased benefits

Krebber also reported that during the first half of the year the company obtained a net profit of “2,083 million euros”, which is equivalent to 45.5 percent more than in the same period of 2021.

Until the month of June, the company registered a total income of “16,188 million euros, 91.6 percent more, while the adjusted gross operating result (Ebitda) increased by 63.2 percent, to 2,858 million”.

The chairman of the company’s board of directors stated: our earnings have increased significantly, and the benefits will benefit the energy transition.

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The high temperatures of summer can be the cause of the reduction in the performance of electronic devices in daily use. Computers, cell phones, televisions, tablets, among others, are the most affected.

Preventing heat from causing irreversible damage is the most recommended. Users need to keep the ambient temperature below 35 degrees Celsius so that electronic equipment can work properly.

Of course, the use of air conditioning is the first option. However, in Europe currently, the cost of electricity reduces this possibility only to those who can pay for higher consumption. An alternative is to keep devices, such as cell phones and computers, in cool spaces, away from windows where sunlight enters.

A second important recommendation refers to not using plastic casings, since this increases the generation of heat internally while they are being used, and among the most common consequences of this heating is the bulging of the batteries and even their explosion. This advice goes hand in hand with the possibility of deactivating some applications that remain active in the background, such as those that play videos.

Regarding portable computing equipment, it is essential that they are not used on the bed or placed between the legs. These equipments must be on the base or pedestal intended for it, on a desk. They should not remain flat, directly on the base of a table, for example, because in this way the heat emitted by the equipment does not dissipate, the fans do not perform their function efficiently, which translates into overheating of the screen, keyboard , hard drive and the whole device.

Devices such as flash drives and memory cards have been designed to withstand higher temperatures. This does not mean that they should be exposed to heat waves. In any case, what can be damaged by indiscriminate exposure to solar radiation is the material that covers them, which is normally plastic or a similar material, so it can deform and prevent their connection.

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The world’s leading company in the renewable energy industry X-Elio announced its entry into the market for battery energy storage systems with the installation, by the second quarter of 2023, of its first Uribe photovoltaic plant.

The Uribe photovoltaic solar plant will have 58 megawatts (MW) and will be located in the Antofagasta region, Chile. The solution will connect with a data management platform in the cloud and all the information services for the control, operation and optimal maintenance of the batteries in real time.

The project consists of a fully integrated 5 MWh lithium-ion energy storage system, to be supplied by Saft, a subsidiary of TotalEnergies, and two Intensium Max High Energy containers. It will also have an energy conversion system and medium voltage transformers.

The company reported that the plant will benefit from a storage system with an “enhanced and comprehensive security architecture that incorporates a unique combination of security devices to mitigate the risks of fire and explosion, fully tested and certified according to international security standards.”

X-Elio’s enters the energy transition

Storage enables greater penetration of renewable energies and provides advanced services to the grid. This project will become the starting point for X-Elio to significantly expand the company’s capacity in the coming years, as it plans to deploy a “project portfolio exceeding 1 GWh by the end of the year.”

The commercial director of X-ELIO, Mirko Molinari, said that the company is very excited to join the experience in the development of solar energy with its new storage capabilities. “We are improving day by day and providing real solutions at the pace necessary for the energy transition to take place.”

The company is convinced that its business model is scalable, generates value for shareholders and is based on extremely high sustainability criteria. In Molinari’s opinion, energy storage is a fundamental technology to allow the decarbonization of our energy system, with many value flows still untapped.

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The Venezuelan telecommunications operator, Digitel, once again innovates the market by installing solar panels to back up electricity at its Los Roques station, favoring more than 3,000 citizens who inhabit the island and the different tourists who visit it, considered one of the most important tourist attractions in Venezuela.

The system is already working properly autonomously, without depending on the electrical network, offering backup between 8 to 12 hours of energy that guarantees the continuity of all Digitel network services, including points of sale.

With this solution, the company makes the most of renewable energy sources since it achieves “savings in CO2 emissions due to solar contribution is 6.5 tons per year” resulting positively in the environment.

With these facilities, the telecommunications company continues to innovate in the sector to provide new opportunities in the development and expansion of services, especially in remote areas with difficult access.

Environmentally friendly technology

The president of the company, Luis Bernardo Pérez, expressed “we continue advancing with a technology that is friendly to the environment, renewable, low-maintenance and low-cost. We started with solar panels in Cuyagua and now we place them in Los Roques, giving continuity to an effort that represents progress and the future for telecommunications”.

According to the information provided by the operator, the installed solution is made up of “photovoltaic modules, batteries and a power conversion system”, with which the company can continue to provide “services in the area even without electricity and open new possibilities to the sector”.

According to Pérez, the use of solar panels in the telecommunications sector, in urban areas, will generate great benefits in the future because they are easy to install since space can be optimized (roof of booths).

On the other hand, it requires little or no use of diesel and the “cost of acquiring, installing and maintaining the solution is lower compared to other backup options when it is installed over time, since it considerably minimizes operating expenses.” Said the president of the company.

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The Volkswagen Group selected Sagunt, a Spanish town in Valencia, to install its battery gigafactory, which will also serve as support for the construction of urban electric models in the Catalan town of Martorell and in the Navarran town of Landaben from 2025 and 2026.

The execution of this gigafactory will create 3,500 direct jobs by the end of the decade and will have a capacity of 40 GWh per year. Additionally, the factory will also be able to supply the Ford factory in Almussafes, due to an agreement of “European cooperation between both firms by which they undertook to develop zero-emission and light commercial models.”

The factory will become the third in Europe for the Volkswagen Group and the official announcement will be made shortly before “the company registers, together with Seat, its comprehensive electrification proposal in the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation in the Electric Vehicle sector and Connected.“

Sagunt: an industrial estate

This gigafactory will be located in the industrial estate adjacent to the port of Sagunt called Parc Sagunt II and will have some 5.6 million square meters of land.

The space is considered industrial land, due to the “strategic environmental and territorial declaration (DATE) of the special plan for the second phase of this manufacturing area and confirmed by the Department of Ecological Transition of the Generalitat Valenciana” through a published statement last February 17.

The Generalitat stated that as a result of this environmental authorization, the region is considered a “magnificent” position to host large-scale industrial investments.

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General Motors will invest more than 7,000 million dollars in four of its plants in Michigan, United States, to expand the production capacity of batteries and electric vehicles. The company highlighted that this amount will allow the creation of 4,000 new jobs and the maintenance of 1,000 additional jobs, while indicating that it is the largest individual investment in its history.

This economic injection contemplates the construction, by the hand of Ultium Cells, of a battery cell plant in Lansing (Michigan) and the conversion of the Orion Township center for the manufacture of electric versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra models.

The president and CEO of General Motors, Mary Barra, stated that this “significant investment” demonstrates the company’s commitment to strengthening its industrial presence in Michigan and the United States, as well as increasing the number of jobs “well remunerated.”

“We will have the products, the battery cell production capacity and the vehicle manufacturing capacity to be the leader in electric mobility by the middle of the decade,” assured the head of the automobile group.

General Motors investments

The investments in Orion and the creation of the new Ultium Cells plant in Lansing will serve as a boost to expand the company’s 100 % electric SUV production capacity to 600,000 units per year.  Thus, General Motors will inject 4,000 million dollars in the adaptation of the Orion center for the manufacture of the electric GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado, which will use the new Ultium platform.

On the other hand, Ultium Cells, a joint venture created by General Motors and LG Energy Solution, will invest 2,600 million dollars in the construction of its third battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States. It will allow the creation of 1,700 new jobs a once it is fully operational, which is scheduled to happen at the end of 2024.

General Motors will also invest $510 million in the Lansing Delta Township Assembly and Lansing Grand River Assembly plants, which will be upgraded for new model production.

Source: dpa

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Carmaker Daimler plans to put away combustion engines and focus on electromobility. The business group explained that it aims to gradually produce all Mercedes-Benz brand vehicles under the motto “Electric only”.

The automaker has proposed that, by 2025, 50 % of Mercedes sales correspond to fully electric cars or cars with a plug-in system, double than previously expected.

It also announced that it is preparing to make its brand of cars “fully electric” by the end of the decade and that it plans to invest more than 40,000 million euros (47,125 million dollars) in the manufacture of vehicles with electric battery between 2022 and 2030.

Likewise, all the technical bases to produce the various series will respond to electrical technology as of 2025, so that by that time customers will be able to opt for a fully electric alternative for each Mercedes-Benz model.

In view of the new positioning, Daimler now also wants to produce battery cells on a larger scale together with other companies. The company and its partners plan to build eight mega-factories around the world for the production of cells with a total capacity of more than 200 gigawatt hours.

Until now, Daimler had rejected large-scale independent cell production and relied on suppliers. The planned battery cell factories will complement a network of nine plants that assemble battery systems from these cells.

Daimler reported that the next generation of batteries will be highly standardized and will be used in more than 90 % of all future Mercedes-Benz brand cars.

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