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...
Hydrogen fuel cell system products to power sub-regional and regional flights
Intelligent Energy (IE), a leading UK fuel cell developer and manufacturer, unveils its IE-FLIGHT family of aviation fuel cell products for sub-regional and regional...
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...
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...
Advancing electric aviation
H55, a leader in certified electric propulsion and battery management systems for sustainable aviation, and Aerovolt UK, pioneers in electric aircraft charging solutions, have...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...