North Sea stashes: Authority issues first permits to sequester carbon
Fourteen high volume storage operators learned today they’ve received 21 licences between them to pump CO2 and other greenhouse gas pollutants into voids under...
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...
Brum, brum: Birmingham colleges gets £1.2m to spark up new automotive battery skills
A £1.2 million grant from public sector tech angels Innovate UK has left University College Birmingham leading a West Midlands partnership, aimed at delivering...
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...
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...
Whisky stiffens “second life” spinning of rare metals from retired turbines
Scots researchers believe they've mapped a way to recover rare metals vital to rebuild and replace ageing wind turbines. Stereotypically enough, whisky plays a...
Energy groups welcome government’s biomass strategy
Seven trade groups representing suppliers & customers of biomass-based heat & power have welcomed the government’s plans to speed up Britain’s adoption of biomass...
Good Energy wades into row over EUA “lobbying to slow heat pumps“
A major all-renewables supplier has stepped into allegations that trade body the Energy & Utilities Alliance has been influencing ministers to delay Britain’s rollout...
Thanks a £ million: Power Roll gets Durham’s & EU’s cash to boost thin-film...
Sunderland-based solar electricity innovators Power Roll today benefit from a £1 million cash injection to expand production of their light, flexible thin film, billed...
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...
nBS launches trading platform for energy managers
Corporate energy supplier npower Business Solutions has launched a suite of flexible energy trading solutions designed to help businesses trim energy bills and maximise...
Nuke sludge sucker passes first test, preps for deployment
A pioneering new technique to remove sludge from nuclear fuel ponds has been successfully trialled at one of the UK’s largest wet test facilities.
The...
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...
AFC leases hydrogen-based mega-generator to Spanish partner
A three month trial in Spain of fuel cell pioneer AFC Energy's H-Power clean hydrogen-based generator has convinced the firm to extend its product...
Industrial heat pumpers Futraheat raise glass to £1.5 million, eye up brewery trial
London-based industrial clean heat start-up Futraheat has closed a £1.5 million investment round led by green investors Clean Growth Fund. A brewery trial of...
High power prices slow firms’ investment & recruitment, 2,300 tell ABB
Sustained high energy prices are deterring spending by large and small companies on recruitment, training and investment in productivity upgrades, research commissioned by multinationational...
Hunt’s ‘sustainable’ label for nuclear angers green campaigners
Jeremy Hunt’s designation in his spring budget of nuclear as a “sustainable” electricity source has provoked anger from environmental campaigners.
The chancellor made the re-classification...
CCUS “backed by government’s £20 billion” to head Hunt’s energy Budget, Treasury briefs
Twenty-year Government incentives promoting carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) will reportedly headline benefits to the energy sector in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget on Wednesday.
The...
Facilities, managed: Energy Systems Catapult stretches to Active Building Centre
Not-for-profit technology advisors Energy Systems Catapult have acquired ‘key parts’ of the Active Building Centre.
The ABC was launched four years ago under the government’s...