Energy Labs Issue #6

Hey?? dear readers! Energy Labs #6 is out!

??Fun fact by Kate

Watchtowers, tunnels, bridges, ramps and slides. Discarded wind turbine blades have found a second life as a futuristic kids playground in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The Wikado Playground is a maze-like structure made from repurposed wind turbine blades that have been cut up into parts and re-painted. How cool is that?!

??Industry news digest

World’s first large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland

The first commercial sand-based thermal energy storage system in the world has started operating in Finland, developed by Polar Night Energy

Global energy and climate leaders meet in Sydney to strengthen clean energy technology supply chains

High-level discussions among Ministers from Australia, Japan, India, Indonesia, Samoa, US and other countries are informed by new IEA reports on supply chains for technologies such as solar panels and batteries

The report by IEA can be downloaded here ??

EU Lawmakers Seek More Energy Savings to Tackle Gas Crunch

Lawmakers on the European Parliament's energy committee supported more ambitious EU targets to save energy and expand renewable power on Wednesday, viewed as key to ending Europe's reliance on Russian gas.

??Upcoming Energy Events

ONSHORE WIND CONFERENCE 2022

You’ll learn:

• How the global onshore wind sector is moving, and its implications for the UK market
• The scope of the UK’s onshore wind ambition, and the opportunities it offers to industry
• How the policy landscape is changing - and the impact this could have on project development
• The shifting expectations of what a renewable energy project should deliver, and how this shapes project design

??Personal Productivity Tips

Many of Fluix's customers have field employees who use iPads in their day-to-day work. But not every field employee is tech-savvy with using those iPads despite needing to rely on them for many tasks during the day.

About a year ago, Apple made it easier for iPad users to use their iPad in "split-screen" mode. This short video shows how to do that. Pass it along to your iPad-using employees and friends. Great productivity tip!

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* Energy Labs is my personal laboratory where I share things I’m learning about the Energy sector. I work for?Fluix, a company that works with some of the biggest names in the industry — Siemens Gamesa, Vestas, RWE, and others. Energy Labs comes out every week, so I’d love it if you shared the newsletter with one of your colleagues.

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