Hydrogen genset firm GeoPura expands with £36m from GM & friends

Hydrogen-fuelled power makers GeoPura have secured £36 million in growth funds from heavyweight investors including Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and the venture capital arm...

Salted (sic) for Is and whizz: Mancs brave Italian brine to lift lithium

A Manchester University spin-off has signed a deal with an Italian mining company aimed at making lithium in commercial quantities. Watercycle Technologies, a deep tech...

First big lithium refinery outside Asia announced for Teesside

Business secretary Grant Shapps today delighted Britain’s battery makers and EV chargers, travelling to Teesside to announce plans for Europe’s first ever large-scale refinery...

Carbon capture: Barclays & Clean Growth Fund cement £4.4 m deal with Queen’s, Belfast...

A Northern Irish start-up delivering a key enabling component in evolving carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes has won the cash backing of the...

Carbon-busting invention from Greenwich Uni purges cement, preps to clean heavy emitters

Innovators spun off from London’s Greenwich University have won cash funding to expand into decarbonising cement and other heavy-emitting, hard-to-clean industries. Through its patented Accelerated...

Ceres eyes China expansion via Weichai and Bosch

Shares in Ceres Power, the fuel cell innovator in solid oxide technologies, surged nearly 25% in the LSE this morning, on news that it...

Brits’ noses and bairns’ b*ms to be wiped clean, thanks to Octopus’ wind

Flexible renewables mega-developer Octopus has squirted ink onto paper, wrapping up a deal with paper-maker Kimberly-Clark, for supply of clean power from its Lanarkshire...

Tidal turbine titans toast Tories’ long-term £300 million tonic

Pioneers of Britain’s success in tidal stream generation today greeted the government’s 15-year pledge to support the technology, along with its world-spanning, power-spinning potential. In...