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...

Vertical electric air taxis, dosh from Extreme E racers: diesel-destroyer AFC rises hy(-drogen)er &...

Fuel cell innovator AFC Energy today unveiled full year financials which it claims set it on route to strike it rich in the world’s...

Hydrogen fuelling London to San Francisco jets? That’ll be Fly Zero

Long haul flights for up to 279 passengers in a British-designed, hydrogen-fuelled plane blipped up as a prospect on airlines' radar this morning, courtesy...

Velocys announces long-term clean avgas deals with airline behemoths

Fuel-from-waste pioneer Velocys has made the world's biggest sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant more investible, as it detailed massive likely long-term supply deals to...