Hydrogen UK launches ‘Hydrogen Accelerators’ to spur UK’s competitive advantage

Hydrogen UK (HUK), the largest trade association for the hydrogen industry in the UK, will today be launching its ‘Hydrogen Accelerators’ at the Conservative...

Electrolyser technology key to unlocking green Hydrogen’s potential says IMI Critical Engineering

With experts predicting that hydrogen uptake must triple to meet global decarbonisation targets, IMI Critical Engineering has expanded its breakthrough technology portfolio and launched...

Solar chiefs to PM: Get real, and un-Truss more land for PV

Bosses of Britain’s busy solar sector today gave the government food for thought, urging  solar sceptic Liz Truss to get behind the industry. Representatives of...

Great British Energy: Labour would launch nationally owned green powerco in Year 1, says...

Sir Keir Starmer today pledged to launch a nationalised clean energy company in competition with existing suppliers and within the first year of a...

Fracking ban lifted, as D-BEIS confirms 100 new North Sea licences

The government this morning tore up a manifesto commitment, rescinding Britain’s 2019 moratorium on onshore fracking for gas, citing the need to increase national...

Patch raises $55m to fulfill business demand to take climate action through carbon markets

Climate-tech company, Patch, today announced a $55m series B funding round to accelerate the company's ability to fulfill growing global demand for businesses to take...

WPD claims lead among DNOs with UK’s first “connectability pledge”

Britain’s grid operator serving the Midlands and Wales reckons it’s getting ahead of a major regulatory change in how DNOs charge for installing low-carbon...

Reams of REMA: D-BEIS moots “biggest changes in a generation” to electricity markets

Generators and electricity industry observers have welcomed sweeping changes in Britain’s electricity markets proposed by energy ministry D-BEIS. Closeness to wind farms, nuclear or gas...

Rebel Energy & partner sign 3,000 households to receive blockchain-certified renewables

In a move claimed as a UK first, two debutant power partners say they’ve brought low carbon electricity certified by peer-to-peer blockchain to 3,000...

Support for the journey to CO2-negative cement

The cement industry emits large amounts of climate-damaging carbon dioxide – but alternative binders based on magnesium carbonate could even bind CO2. Concrete as...

Climate scientists: Johnson administration talking big, under-delivering on carbon transition

Britain’s path to net zero is being imperilled by the Johnson’s government’s over-reliance on long-term targets, market mechanisms, unproven new technology’, and not enough...

Wärtsilä to provide 100MWh energy storage system to SSE’s new solar and battery division

The technology group Wärtsilä will partner with SSE to deliver a 50MW / 100MWh energy storage system in Salisbury, Wiltshire. The battery will be...

IPG raises £1million in crowdfunding campaign

Climate tech company, IPG, has today reached its £1million target investment, through a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, bringing it a step closer to enabling businesses to...

Military veterans get fell in for Centrica’s thrust towards Net Zero

Britain's biggest energy company Centrica hopes to recruit as many as 500 former soldiers, sailors and airforce personnel into engineering roles across British Gas...

WPD commits to easy hook-up for home microgenerators

Midlanders, Welsh folk and South Westerners who’ve turned their homes into solar-equipped mini-power stations got renewed backing from Western Power Distribution today. Fresh from announcing...

Energy costs top Covid recovery as corporates’ main concern, survey finds

Energy costs have overtaken the recovery from Covid-19 as the top concern for UK businesses, according to a new report released today.  Four in...

Stock markets carrying 3 times more carbon reserves than can be burned under Paris

Global stock markets are financing companies which are sitting on three times more coal, oil and gas reserves than can be burned without breaking...

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...

The energy market fairy tale, and how you can avoid the nightmares

Cielo Energy provides businesses of all sizes expert commercially focussed consultancy advice and support on the energy market.  We work with companies from...

Many leading banks rely on data that is insufficiently granular to properly inform strategy

New research from Bain & Company finds that the majority of the world's largest banks are failing to disclose their financed carbon emissions or...