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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SME-to-SME trades of clean solar power ‘cuts bills by up to 90%’ on Suffolk...
Over 140 companies on an industrial estate in Mildenhall, Suffolk, reckon their local market trading low carbon electricity is slashing bills by between 20%...
Rolls-Royce and NPL ally to monitor mini-nukes
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Rolls-Royce SMR are partnering on a new project to investigate safe automated reactor operation for nuclear-powered Small Modular...
Crikey & Thunder! Pom solar boffins go Dutch on Outback jalopy jaunt
Solar electricity innovators Oxford PV are deploying their patented perovskite-on-silicon tandem cells for the first time as an automotive power source, motivating the Top...
Konnichiwa, Kraken ! ‘Ows tha doin‘, Coventry?
Staff at fast-growing Octopus Energy were today celebrating two business successes, saluting separately the mystical Orient and the somewhat less mystical West Midlands of...