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...

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...

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...

Iona Capital invests in biogenic CO2 pioneers Carbon Capture Scotland

Low carbon investors Iona Capital have taken a stake in Carbon Capture Scotland, one of the UK’s leading firms in carbon capture and use. CCSL's...

Piclo flexes to the Max, plans global trades for 2024

Trading platform provider Piclo is readying for launch a product that will enable its clients to trade flexibility capacity on global markets. Starting in the...

AFC to debut world’s first ammonia-into-hydrogen pilot cracker

Fuel cell innovators AFC Energy have announced what they claim as the world’s biggest trial plant for producing low carbon hydrogen from ammonia. Weekly output...

Enfinium pledges up to £800 million for CCUS at Ferrybridge

Energy-from-waste generator Enfinium today promised new investment of up to £800 million in carbon capture (CCUS) technology, centred on one of its four UK...

ABB and Gravitricity mine potential of hoist-delivered batteries

Energy storage innovators Gravitricity have signed a development deal with global engineers ABB designed to advance both parties' hoists-as-batteries offer. Re-opening old mine shafts across...

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...

Vision thing: Government launches aspirations for competitive CCUS

Ministers are sharpening their long-term vision of creating a competitive UK market for carbon capture and storage (CCUS). In a policy programme dubbed CCUS Vision,...

Topsoe land deal to store Stanlow’s carbon

Carbon emissions specialists Topsoe have landed a contract with Essor Oil for carbon capture and gas cleaning at the Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire. Essar...

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,...

£400 million CCUS cement plant progresses in Wales

Building aggregates supplier Heidelberg Materials UK is pressing ahead with plans to spend £400 million, converting Britain’s first cement plant to run on carbon...

CCUS innovator Seabound plots course to de-carbing world’s freighters

London-based carbon capture start-up Seabound is celebrating proof of its contribution to stripping carbon emissions from commercial shipping. Container shipping is estimated to account for...

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...

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...

EfW player plans £200m carbon capture hub on Deeside

Energy-from-waste operator Enfinium today unveiled plans for a £200 million plant storing carbon dioxide extracted from waste at its depot in the Parc Adfer...

Weather makers: offshore promoters eye fair winds for supply chain

Wind energy representatives & the government agencies who licence turbines moored in or floating above Britain’s briny have unveiled details of how to triple...

E.ON ex-boss takes over at Energy Systems Catapult

Dr Tony Cocker, former CEO of E.ON UK, has been appointed the new chair of Energy Systems Catapult, the independent research body tasked to...