While announcing another bumper year for the generation of renewable energy in Spain, the country’s electricity grid operator Red Electrica said that renewable energy sources could account for half of the country’s annual power generation this year, up from 42% in 2022.
Around 9m tonnes of lithium batteries become essentially unusable every year and are incinerated or sent to landfill. Nottingham Trent University’s Advanced Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC) have been awarded a £582,000 grant as part of a Europe-wide effort to mitigate this waste.