WPD boosts vision for low carbon heat
Western Power Distribution is pushing ahead with its RIIO-ED2 investment plans in what it claims is its most ambitious plan yet to connect households...
Merseyside WTE plant for Eqtec and Anaergia
Hydrogen and biofuels firm Eqtec is partnering up to build a multi-input waste-to-energy plant at Southport’s Hybrid Energy Park, Merseyside.
The technology innovators announced this...
Towering in-farm-o: V-FAST gorges on vertical feast
Vertical, temperature-controlled, giant indoor fruit and veg farms powered by Scottish renewables are the vision of a four-company consortium announced today.
Power storage and clean...
Western Power presses pedal to metal, ACCELERATES carbon-saver ruses
Britain’s biggest distribution network operator WPD has launched two new programmes, aimed at minimising carbon impacts on its network.
ALPACA and ACCELERATED (Assessment of Climate...
Energy security: D-BEIS itemises cash support for preferred technologies
D-BEIS has followed up on Thursday’s energy security strategy, splitting out the technologies favoured to share the £375 million in subsidies earmarked by the...
Van diesel furious to be up against solar’s fast frigid air
On-roof solar electricity supplanting diesel as the preferred power source for truck refrigeration got a £3 million boost today.
Government-backed investment angels the Clean Growth...
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...
Trust us: Heat operator Kensa achieves registration for consumer protection scheme
Heat Trust, the consumer champion for customers purchasing energy from communal and district heat networks, has successfully registered its first networked heat pump site...
“Carbon-extracting” power from BECCS probed by D-BEIS
Energy ministry D-BEIS has today launched a consultation on how Whitehall should support energy generation from biomass feedstocks, while harnessing to CO2 extraction, use and...
The clean heat is on: Racks of data servers to render scores of thousands...
Data barns full of humming, heating computer servers are to be piloted as heat sources running district heat networks, energy ministry D-ESNZ confirmed today.
Scores...
Green hydrogen offers up to £ 11 billion savings for UK plc, industrialists calculate
A new study backed by top manufacturers including Tata Steel, Air Products & Airbus has found nearly £11 billion of economic and environmental benefits...
Renewables firms turn up heat in Ohio and in Lithuania
Two UK-based innovators in the renewable energy space are stretching their wings, both westwards and eastwards.
Oxford-headquartered Velocys, convertors of end-of-life plastics into sustainable aviation...
Steel city forges plan to swap gas for green hydrogen
Switching Sheffield’s world-renowned steel forges from gas to locally produced green hydrogen could cut CO2 emissions by as much as 40%, a government-funded study...
Hot and hotter! Pump startup seeks partner, deploying high temperature heat to industry
Industrial heat pump startup Futraheat has secured £689,000 from Innovate UK to develop and deploy a commercial heat pump to deliver low CO2, high...
Carlton’s & Schroders’ £200 m hydrogen bid glows green for gas’s prospects
A £ 200 million joint venture announced today in green hydrogen testifies to the low-carbon gas’ future as an industrial mainstay and low-carbon substitute.
Developers...
Campaigners secure High Court hearing against Whitehaven coal mine
Friends of the Earth and a Cumbrian environmental group have been granted a court hearing to challenge the government’s planning permit for Britain’s first...
To Shetland & beyond: tidal power may make oxygen for islands’ space probes
Rockets from Shetland’s new SaxaVord Space Centre may be powered by locally produced green gases.
Tidal power developer Nova Innovation is heading a consortium to...
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...
“Red & yellow & pink & green”; Ministers seek to sing hydrogen’s simpler rainbow
Standardising hydrogen’s often confusing palette of colours and sources is the government’s aim in its proposed new certification scheme, announced today.
Verifying the sustainability of...
Supplier heeds noble call to recycle argon for Indian solar mega-plant
Surrey start-up Gas Recovery & Recycle Ltd ( GR2L) has had its hopes of success inflated by a £4 million deal struck to export...