“Generational change”, as much as losses, spins turbine boss out of the door

Jochen Eickholt, pictured, head of turbine maker-in-a-spin Siemens Gamesa, is to quit both his post and the company this summer, the victim of restructuring...

New green steel capacity ‘can turbocharge Ukraine’s post-war recovery’; say Oxford researchers

As investors & politicians meet today in Berlin to discuss rebuilding a Ukraine freed of Putin’s psychopathy, innovators at Oxford University say low-carbon steel...

Cutting out the carb(on)s: developer un-wastes energy at Derby low-carbon food cluster

Supported by waste-to-energy innovators Veolia, industrial estate developers SmartParc are lightening the carbon load by 30,000 tonnes a year for a revolutionary food-processing complex...

Cable builder launches in-house Scots centre to train apprentices

The start-up aiming to wire up Europe's longest subsea cable-link as part of a £16 billion venture to import Moroccan sun and wind power...

E.ON ex-boss takes over at Energy Systems Catapult

Dr Tony Cocker, former CEO of E.ON UK, has been appointed the new chair of Energy Systems Catapult, the independent research body tasked to...

2021 is solar’s best year yet in Europe, trade body finds

Solar PV deployment this year in the EU was the fastest in the technology’s history, industry advocates SolarPower Europe have calculated. Defying the continuing pandemic,...

Clustered small firms share government prizes to de-carb operations

Twelve projects are each set to benefit from their share of up to £6 million in government funds targeted at stripping carbon from industrial...

ITM Power’s shares drop 12% on new boss’s profits warning

Shares in AIM-quoted catalyser builder ITM Power closed more than 12 per cent down today at a year low, as investors reacted to a...

£163m Humberside factory to challenge China for magnets and rare earths recovery

Construction has begun of a pioneering British plant designed to wrest control from China of recycling valuable magnetic metals used in EVs and wind...

Brum, brum: Birmingham colleges gets £1.2m to spark up new automotive battery skills

A £1.2 million grant from public sector tech angels Innovate UK has left University College Birmingham leading a West Midlands partnership, aimed at delivering...

Andrex maker inks paper to strengthen & lengthen Carlton’s green H2 rôle   

Carlton Power’s bid to make green hydrogen in Barrow-in-Furness wiped its nose today, as Kleenex tissue-maker Kimberly-Clark signed a supply deal, set to cut...

Europe “back on track to build 30GW of solar kit by 2025”: industry chiefs

Continental Europe is back on course to re-build its manufacturing capacity in solar panels and inverters beyond 30GW as early as 2025, industry experts...