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...
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...
Salted (sic) for Is and whizz: Mancs brave Italian brine to lift lithium
A Manchester University spin-off has signed a deal with an Italian mining company aimed at making lithium in commercial quantities.
Watercycle Technologies, a deep tech...
“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...
Hello, Columbus: Velocys lifts clean wings towards the Americas
Increasingly globe-spanning aviation-fuel-from-waste provider Velocys is looking to the US and to US project engineers Bechtel Corporation for imminent expansion.
A deal with Bechtel, the...
Solar heat-with-power innovator Naked Energy buffs up, targets Portugal and Greece
“Twin solar” technologists Naked Energy are targeting new EU territories with two distribution deals announced today.
In September the Crawley-based firm, founded in 2009 by...
Smart meters box clever through strongest year for data growth
Britain’s national network of smart meters, developed and maintained by the Data Communications Company (DCC), grew by over 6.3 million meters last year, a...
Government finds £102 million at Christmas to prime new nuclear & hydrogen
The Sunak administration today presented early gifts to investors in nuclear power and advanced hydrogen, finding parcels of £77 million and £25 million respectively...
Planners green-light Britain’s biggest battery, and first CCUS plant in Lincs
Innovative generation projects on opposite sides of Britain have this week received planning approval, speeding innovation in the nation’s dispersal and deployment of practical...
Ofgem tables RIIO-ED2 decisions, draws capex map to 2028 for nets’ upgrades, storage, clean...
Under-fire regulator Ofgem today confirmed RIIO-ED2 investment plans, shaping six DNOs’ capex budgets which will fund upgrades and improvements in 14 local networks up...
CCUS being adopted ‘far too slowly’, says McKinsey
Worldwide deployment of carbon capture use and storage (CCUS) technology needs to accelerate by as much as 120 times current rates of outlay, if...
Carbon capture: Barclays & Clean Growth Fund cement £4.4 m deal with Queen’s, Belfast...
A Northern Irish start-up delivering a key enabling component in evolving carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes has won the cash backing of the...
Notts ex-coal plant picked for nuke fusion trial
EDF’s former fossil-fuelled power station at West Burton in Nottinghamshire is to host a pilot plant for nuclear fusion.
The government is providing £220 million...
Lancashire geology limits England’s fracking feasibility, say academics
Seismic experts at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University confirmed today that rock configurations beneath Britain’s most advanced fracking project raise further questions over commercial feasibility of...
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,...