COVID-19 has caused a 14% increase in home daytime heating

A new study from tado° has found that UK homes had their daytime heating on 14% more this winter in comparison to the previous...

Heineken is turning pandemic beer wast into green energy

A year ago (20th March 2021), speaking at a Downing Street press briefing, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that pubs were to be shut due...

ArcelorMittal launches low carbon steel initiatives

ArcelorMittal has launched its first three XCarb initiatives that will bring together all of its reduced, low and zero-carbon products, steelmaking activities and wider green...

Aluminium industry banking on near perfect recycling rates and CCUS to decarbonise

The aluminium sector is responsible for 1.1 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per annum, around 2% of global anthropogenic emissions. According to an...

Keeping leading UK brewery operations cool

ICS Cool Energy has helped a leading multinational brewery in Burton-on-Trent to fulfil its cold storage and process cooling needs. The brewery was looking for a...

Getting heat billing right

Fairly and accurately charging for heat has always been a problem to solve cheaply and easily when addressing the retrofit of existing properties. Ista’s...

Wall-mounted heat/energy meter

The U1000-WM (Wall Mount) is a new addition to the Micronics ULTRAFLO range of Clamp-on, Heat/Energy and Flow meters. U1000 Heat/Energy and Flow meters are...

Refrigerants could pose sustainability risk to heat pump rollout

Heat pump suppliers are being urged to consider balancing an expected surge of installations in 2021 with long-term environmental targets concerning the global warming...

edenseven – a new energy and environmental management consultancy launches

Pete Nisbet, former Managing Director of Mitie Energy, set to lead edenseven - a new energy and environmental management consultancy. 9th February 2021 – Cambridge...

Veolia and Carbon Clean announce first carbon capture trials in UK energy recovery facilities

Veolia is set to become the first UK operator of Energy Recovery Facilities (ERF) to demonstrate the latest carbon capture technology with Carbon Clean....

Smart building conversion using smart finance could save billions

Siemens Financial Services (SFS) has released a new insight study which estimates the cost of official buildings energy conversion targets to 2040. The model...

Mars UK to remove one million miles a year from roads

Mars has a new partnership with DHL that will see the construction of two state of the art facilities and deliver annual outbound logistics CO2...

Gemserv acquires Ecuity to accelerate ‘net zero’ drive

Professional services firm Gemserv has acquired Ecuity Advisory as part of its drive to expand services for clients seeking to accelerate the transition to...

Islay distillery targets net zero by 2025 with green hydrogen solution

UK‐based green hydrogen energy services company, Protium Green Solutions, has received more than £70,000 in funding to complete a feasibility study on incorporating hydrogen...

Government forecasts its RHI commitments

Monthly and quarterly forecasts have been released for the Government's estimated committed RHI expenditure for the next 12 months. The data in Table 1 below...

A risk or an opportunity to alleviate fuel poverty?

The updated Heat Network require that Operators of all unmetered shared heating system must, where possible, charge Residents for their measured heat use.  So,...

BHIVE: a dynamic purchasing system for heat networks

BEIS has established a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for heat networks - the BEIS Heat Investment Vehicle (BHIVE). It will allow public sector heat...

UK household waste can pave way to a green bioLPG future

A new report released by Liquid Gas UK (LGUK), the trade association for the LPG industry in the UK, outlines how a green future...

International grid edge study reveals countries’ needs and readiness for the energy transition

Siemens, the University of Oxford and Technische Universitaet Berlin have jointly developed a new Grid Edge Index to assess different countries’ needs and readiness...

EI Awards 2020 recognise energy sector’s ‘indispensable contribution’

The annual ceremony of the hotly-contested EI Awards 2020 took place today, with the most innovative people and projects across the global energy sector...