Storage heavyweights Highview raise £300 million to bring UK’s biggest LAES battery to Manchester
Compressed gas storage specialists Highview Power have raised £300 million from investors including Centrica & the UK Infrastructure Bank to build Britain’s first grid-scale...
Rendesco pumps up £6m to expand low carbon heat networks
Operator of non-gas heat networks Rendesco has raised £6 million to boost its operations and develop more under-home pipelines in the UK & continental...
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...
Clearer strategy needed, says SMMT, if UK buses are to arrive first & together...
Buses are leading Britain’s race to transport decarbonisation as Europe’s biggest market for the very greenest road passenger vehicles. Introducing an ambitious timetable of...
Johnson Matthey & Thyssenkrupp pledge to advance blue ammonia
Metallurgists & sustainable technologists Johnson Matthey are teaming up with chemical plant builders Thyssenkrupp Uhde to promote ways of making ammonia, with lower carbon...
Can-ada-do: Octopus’ service platform takes toehold in New Brunswick
Kraken, the fast-growing utility service provider at the heart of Britain’s Octopus Energy, has signed its first licencing deal in Canada.
Headed by Devrim Celal,...
Stanlow refinery celebrates 100 years
The hydrocarbon refining complex which every day delivers 16% of Britain’s fuel oils for road transport celebrates its centenary today.
Originally developed by Shell Oil,...
Vood you believe it? Germany debuts world’s first lumber-sourced turbine blades
The sustainability of materials used to generate electricity through wind power took a step forward today, as a German manufacturer announced a prototype turbine...
House builders still dragging feet over heat pumps in new build homes, survey finds
Britain’s volume home builders are still under-performing badly against the need to include low carbon heat pumps as standard in newly built houses, figures...
“Attendant, is this plane flying on batteries? I’m 77% persuaded, then. Maybe 100% by...
As many as 82% of British passengers would be open now to flying on a hydrogen-powered plane, and 77% would consider flying on planes...
Balmoral Comtec scoops contract for Hornsea 3’s 400 cable protectors
Aberdeen-based Balmoral Comtec has won a contract of undisclosed value to supply 400 cable protection systems to Ørsted for its Hornsea 3 project, located...
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...
Weather makers: offshore promoters eye fair winds for supply chain
Wind energy representatives & the government agencies who licence turbines moored in or floating above Britain’s briny have unveiled details of how to triple...
EfW player plans £200m carbon capture hub on Deeside
Energy-from-waste operator Enfinium today unveiled plans for a £200 million plant storing carbon dioxide extracted from waste at its depot in the Parc Adfer...
Radical! Plasma pair plot path to EfW prosperity
Wiltshire-based biofuel innovators ABSL and gasification specialists Hatch today went public over their alliance, tasked to deliver higher value products formed by converting home...
CCUS pilot puts Veolia in driving seat to synthesised clean fuels
Waste disposal firm Veolia has launched a ground-breaking feasibility study designed to make clean fuels from biogenic garbage.
The company believes its new knowledge developed...
CCUS innovator Seabound plots course to de-carbing world’s freighters
London-based carbon capture start-up Seabound is celebrating proof of its contribution to stripping carbon emissions from commercial shipping.
Container shipping is estimated to account for...
£400 million CCUS cement plant progresses in Wales
Building aggregates supplier Heidelberg Materials UK is pressing ahead with plans to spend £400 million, converting Britain’s first cement plant to run on carbon...
HyNet’s two blue hydrogen plants at Stanlow win planners’ approval
Backers of the UK’s leading HyNet cluster for industrial decarbonisation were celebrating today, after council planners approved plans for its first blue hydrogen plants,...
Topsoe land deal to store Stanlow’s carbon
Carbon emissions specialists Topsoe have landed a contract with Essor Oil for carbon capture and gas cleaning at the Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire.
Essar...