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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...

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...

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...

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,...

Johnson Matthey pump £80 million into Hertfordshire H2 fuel cell factory

Metallurgy and clean tech innovators Johnson Matthey are to build an £80 million plant in Hertfordshire, scaling up production of proton exchange membrane (PEM)...

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...

Low-carbon avgas maker Velocys heads skywards, via Ohio, Tokyo.. and Humberside

Oxford University spin-off and purger of hydrocarbons from aviation fuel Velocys posted audited full year financial results today.  Doubling net assets, eliminating borrowing, boosting...

Green hydrogen scoops £2bn for industry projects, as pilot falters to convert homes

Energy ministry D-ESNZ has committed to back 11 projects making industrial use of green hydrogen with £2 billion over 15 years. In return for state...

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...

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...

Diesel on the down powering building sites? Fuel cell pioneer signs up first construction...

Hydrogen fuel cells as sources of clean power for building sites rose by another storey today, as innovators in the technology AFC Energy topped...

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...

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...

“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...

EQTEC gets Billingham ducks in a row, prepares clients to be billing ‘em

Multi-fuel energy innovators EQTEC have unveiled latest steps in bringing their Teesside mega-plant to fruition. CEO David Palumbo’s enterprise last month announced a partnership intended...

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...

Vertical electric air taxis, dosh from Extreme E racers: diesel-destroyer AFC rises hy(-drogen)er &...

Fuel cell innovator AFC Energy today unveiled full year financials which it claims set it on route to strike it rich in the world’s...

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...

Schools’ juice break: eEnergy and partners plot UK’s biggest charging brand from campuses

Potentially Britain’s most extensive e-charging network, with up to 50,000 EV charge points based at public facilities by 2030, was offered as a commercial...

Blue H2’s pipeline puffs to 16GW across UK and Norway, analysts find

Hydrogen’s "blue" variety scrubbed from oil and gas commands a 90:10 capacity lead over its electrolysed, cleaner “green” variant, in the UK and Norway,...