Innovation

Innovation Hub

Innovation is driving new business models, financing mechanisms, and technologies in energy. This hub examines how capital is directed toward R&D, pilots, and scale-ups, highlighting the role of investors, corporates, and public funding.

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Stay up to date with the latest Innovation news, featuring fresh insights, breakthrough innovations, and key developments from across the energy sector. Explore how this theme is evolving and shaping the future of the industry.

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How the energy-economics nexus is driving the energy transition

In this interview, EUSEW ambassador Stella Tsani talks about how economics impacts human and system interactions in the energy system.

Jonathan Spencer Jones
03/06/2026

Three fusion ‘hubs’ to be established in Germany

Germany’s ministry of research is tendering for three topic specific ‘hubs’ for fusion research and technology development.

Jonathan Spencer Jones
18/05/2026

France anchors its future in floating offshore wind

Enlit On The Road took to the Mediterranean Sea to visit the pioneering EFGL floating wind project, a signal of a burgeoning sector in France.

Pamela Largue
04/05/2026

ENTSO-E puts flexibility at heart of 2030 RDI roadmap

ENTSO-E has released its research, development and innovation implementation plan which targets evolving flexibility needs in Europe.

Jonathan Spencer Jones
29/04/2026

UKAEA launches fusion roadmap to 2030

The UKAEA has launched its fusion roadmap 2026-2030 setting out its role to deliver research, technology and innovation in support of the UK fusion sector.

Jonathan Spencer Jones
23/04/2026

How the humble rice husk could cut emissions in India’s iron ore industry

Warren Flentje, a researcher at Australia’s CSIRO, explains how a demonstration project is successfully utilising agricultural waste to reduce emissions in iron ore processing.

Pamela Largue
17/04/2026

Car battery acid and plastic waste turned into clean hydrogen

The method is known as solar‑powered acid photoreforming and the researchers hope it could help address the global plastic waste problem.

Pamela Largue
12/04/2026

Size matters: scaling down fusion for compactness and the desktop

Realta Fusion’s CoSMo ‘magnetic mirror’ fusion system and Alpha Ring’s Alpha-E desktop device are recording progress.

Jonathan Spencer Jones
06/04/2026

Researchers discover how to stop perovskites from losing performance

Researchers have identified a molecular anchor that can prevent the degradation of solar cells caused by temperature swings known as thermal cycling.

Pamela Largue
30/03/2026

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