“Attendant, is this plane flying on batteries? I’m 77% persuaded, then. Maybe 100% by...
As many as 82% of British passengers would be open now to flying on a hydrogen-powered plane, and 77% would consider flying on planes...
Bristol’s hydrogen trial powers airport baggage trucks; planes next?
A ground-breaking airside hydrogen refuelling trial, led by easyJet with support from aviation service providers, has been successfully completed at Bristol Airport, in the...
Cranfield secures £69 million to boost hydrogen-as-SAF research
Cranfield University is to deepen its research into hydrogen as a sustainable aviation fuel, following its biggest ever grant win.
A £69 million injection will...
Octopus charges into Britain’s skies with Aerovolt
Pilots of electric planes can charge their aircraft with one tap of a card thanks to a new tie-up between Octopus Energy and AeroVolt.
Octopus...
BA takes good care of government’s £9m, lifts cleaner wings with SAF partners
An aviation partnership led by British Airways has secured funding totalling £9 million from the government’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition. The grant clears...
Renewables firms turn up heat in Ohio and in Lithuania
Two UK-based innovators in the renewable energy space are stretching their wings, both westwards and eastwards.
Oxford-headquartered Velocys, convertors of end-of-life plastics into sustainable aviation...
Breaking news: Emissions scheme to reduce sale of carbon allowances
Energy-intensive industries will be incentivised to reach their lowest-ever level of carbon emissions, under detailed plans published by the UK government & devolved administrations...
Ecotricity to launch UK’s first electric airline, but with kerosene fuelling early flights
High profile green industrialist Dale Vince, pictured, is to launch what he intends to become the UK’s first all-electric airline.
Ecotricity, Vince’s 28-year old low...
Teesside to host Britain’s first SAF handling terminal
Britain’s first dedicated bulk handling terminal for sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) is to be built on Teesside. Output equivalent to 10% of the government’s...
To Shetland & beyond: tidal power may make oxygen for islands’ space probes
Rockets from Shetland’s new SaxaVord Space Centre may be powered by locally produced green gases.
Tidal power developer Nova Innovation is heading a consortium to...
Plane-makers’ merger presages hydrogen-powered Islander revamp
An iconic British plane was today absorbed into a new venture promoting zero admissions flight.
A hydrogen-powered version of the Britten-Norman Islander light transport may...
High, higher, hydrogen: ZeroAvia debuts world-beating 19-seater electric plane
Cotswolds-based carbon-free aviation pioneers ZeroAvia were today hailing a maiden zero- emissions flight by the world’s biggest-yet electrically powered plane.
A 19-seater Dornier 228 twin...
Guilt-free flying “a reality”? Minister puffs £165 million under SAF’s Brit wings
Five innovative ventures turning end-of-life plastics into low carbon fuel for jetliners are to benefit from government grants totalling £165 million, the Department of...
Government backs clean avgas firm Velocys with £29.5 million
Sustainable aviation fuel innovator Velocys today saw its share price surge 19%, as it celebrated securing two government grants totalling nearly £30 million in...
Hydrogen-fuelled city hops “a reality by 2042”, say BA, Heathrow, easyJet, Rolls-Royce & chums
Within the next 20 years, passengers could be flying between UK regions in planes emitting no carbon, a squadron of heavy-lifters in commercial aviation...
Carbon foot(ball) print of the “beautiful game”: UK clubs’ Euro rankings puffed
British football teams engaged in this season’s European club competitions have had their carbon footprints for travel ranked.
The estimates are released by an online...
Hydrogen in Airbus’s wings: planemaker backs low carbon flying, as Cotswold minnow ponders fuelling...
Hydrogen as commercial aviation's clean fuel of the future has gained altitude and higher credibility, following a big investment decision from European planemaker Airbus.
Toulouse’s...
Low-carbon avgas maker Velocys heads skywards, via Ohio, Tokyo.. and Humberside
Oxford University spin-off and purger of hydrocarbons from aviation fuel Velocys posted audited full year financial results today. Doubling net assets, eliminating borrowing, boosting...
SAF-er skies for Ryanair, as clean juice firm Safran & investor Hydrogen One lift...
Low cost flight behemoth Ryanair, the airline seen once on TV getting its pilots to top up planes with avgas on a charge card...
Hydrogen-fuelled passenger jets planned by Airbus and Delta
The prospect of carbon-scrubbed or electrolysed hydrogen as a zero emissions aviation fuel has taken a big step forward, with Europe’s biggest plane maker...