Shipping giant Maersk plots course to e-methanol, stands by to drop diesel
Marine operator AP Moller Maersk has advanced plans to strip carbon out of its globe-spanning freighters, placing orders this week for up to twelve...
Octopus offers leg up to green hydrogen flyers over Cotswolds
Octopus Energy’s new green hydrogen offshoot wrapped its arms today around a supply deal with carbon-free flight pioneers ZeroAvia.
One hundred per cent green gas...
Ofgem pours £450 million into innovation pot for greener power tech
Britain’s energy regulator today announces grants from a new £450 million fund to spur green innovation towards Net Zero in clean heat, power system...
British Airways and Velocys at altar, wedded to Altalto’s £2.4 m to alter avgas
Fuel-from-dead-plastics converter Velocys is accepting up to £2.4 million as a government prize to advance its low-carbon jet fuel.
The Oxford University spin-off told...
Octopus cleans up in water, goes squids in with Severn Trent
Octopus Energy Group armed itself this week with a major commercial alliance, inking a renewables understanding to instal its clean generating kit on Severn...
Dutch ads watchdog bites into Shell’s ‘carbon offsets’ campaign
The Netherlands’ regulatory body for advertising has asked Royal Dutch Shell to withdraw its consumer promotion promising ‘carbon neutrality’ to drivers who pay extra...
Hydrogen pioneers ITM Power strengthen leadership
Sheffield-based ITM Power, the British shovel-maker hoping to strike it rich in the world’s gold rush towards clean hydrogen, has spent the summer strengthening...
No tax breaks? Forget Net Zero then, businesses tell Sunak & Johnson
New research released today by corporate energy retailer npower Business Solutions indicates that Rishi Sunak and prime minister Johnson need to be more generous...
Watchdog eviscerates Sunak’s botched £1.5 billion Green Homes fiasco
The National Audit Office today delivers scathing criticism of the Johnson government’s botching of its programme to insulate 600,000 of Britain’s leakiest homes.
In February,...
Bamford heir digs green hydrogen, seeks funds to backhoe projects
Bamford, heir to the JCB digger engineering fortune, is reported to be aiming for a £1 billion-sized pot. HyCap’s first investment round has already raised...
Carbon intensity at 181 gCO2/KWh across August’s grid, as power prices break records
Low power demand, CCGT outages and increased availability of French nuke-sourced imports push carbon intensity to a near-record low for electricity last month, National...
Cisco speeds up drive to 100% renewables, commits to Net Zero by 2040
Internet leviathan Cisco has pledged a speeded up deadline of 2024 to source every amp of electricity it uses worldwide from carbon-free generation. Before...
Hydrogen ‘safe’ in 20% blends over Keele’s pipes, trial decides
Advocates of hydrogen blended with conventional ‘natural’ gas to lessen harms from the methane-dependent fluid, were today celebrating the success of Britain’s first test...
Breakthrough trains powered by community-owned solar await planners’ green signal
A world-leading initiative to power scheduled rail services from carbon-free electricity sold by a solar co-operative in a Sussex beauty spot faces a crunch...
Green gas primes jobs bonanza, Energy Networks Association promises
Hydrogen projects now on or approaching Britain’s drawing boards could create at least 17,000 high-tech jobs in the nation’s industrial heartlands, research published this...
Would you Adam’n’Eve it? East London to get Britain’s ‘biggest’ heat network
Four boroughs straddling the Thames in London’s East End are set to benefit from a district heat network of up to 500,000 homes by...
Drax targets 80% British sourcing of ‘world’s biggest’ BECCS project
Pellet-burning behemoth Drax is offering British suppliers the chance of contracts it values at ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’, in its bid to build...
“Strip out gas to clean grid by 2035” – 13 big firms to Kwarteng
Major corporate energy users Thames Water, BT and the Co-op are among thirteen big employers today calling for 100% decarbonisation of Britain’s power by...
Nuke plants big and small ‘earmarked for Wales’
The Government is considering Wales as a home for mini nuclear reactors and one giant one in an attempt to prevent further energy crises.
Rolls-Royce...
Starmer: £ 28 billion every year to decarb Britain, plus a Clean Air...
Britain’s biggest opposition party has pledged to spend up to £ 28 billion every year this decade to strip carbon out of the UK’s...