Electromechanical innovators celebrated at the 2023 AEMT Awards

The Association of Electrical and Mechanical Trades (AEMT) returned to Coventry on 23 October for its Annual Awards Ceremony. With a record number of...
Envirotec Sept/Oct 21

Government announces funding for green hydrogren, and blending green light

The UK government announced backing for 11 new projects to produce green hydrogen from electrolysis, on 14 December, in addition to giving a tentative...

Interdisciplinary research group calls for accelerated delivery of the energy transition

In its annual Review of Energy Policy 2023, published on 14 December, the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) urges the next government to take...

Global hydrogen market will require strong climate safeguards

Three key announcements made at COP28 on 6 December will have a significant bearing on the emerging global hydrogen industry, as the Natural Resources...

All-Energy/Dcarbonise 2024 launches calls for speakers and academic posters

It's the UK’s largest annual renewable and low carbon energy exhibition and conference. The organizers of All Energy (co-located with Dcarbonise), taking place 15-16...

Cutting-edge innovation celebrated at Scottish Green Energy Awards

A technology that is revolutionising the maintenance of wind turbine blades has scooped a top prize at last night's (30 November) Scottish Green Energy...

AI monitoring and control helps to decarbonize district heating network

The latest AI tools are being used to extend the efficiency of one of the UKs largest, oldest and most successful district energy schemes...

Ten market challenges with scaling renewables identified by new report

Professional services firm KPMG has launched Turning the tide in scaling renewables, described as a comprehensive report which pinpoints 10 pressing challenges defining the...

The rise of on-farm AD: Seven benefits of biogas

By Marc McElhinney For today’s modern farmer, sustainability is at the heart of agricultural best practice. But balancing a reduction in carbon emissions with the...

Lambeth Pier connection paves way for greener River Thames

Electric boats along the River Thames will soon be able to plug in to charge and reduce emissions thanks to a partnership between...

Drilling down to details

Geothermal energy plants could address all of the UK's heating requirements, according to a number of estimates.1 Whatever the reality of such claims, the...

Grid constraints undermining UK industry Net Zero efforts, suggests survey

Progress towards industrial decarbonisation in the UK is being undermined by access to adequate electricity grid infrastructure, the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre...

£4.5 billion boost for UK manufacturing includes clean energy fund

The UK government is making available £4.5 billion of funding for British manufacturing to increase investment in nine sectors. Announced on 17 November, the funding...

The world’s electrical utilities still progressing too slowly towards a renewable energy transition

The World Benchmarking Alliance’s (WBA) latest Electric Utilities Benchmark,1 developed with CDP and assessing companies across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and...

The Energy Act 2023: What it is, what it means and when it will...

Eleni Diamantopoulou writes The Energy Act 2023 (the Act) is finally here. After sixteen months of consideration in Parliament including a short ping-pong round between...

Organizations unprepared for energy and data demands of AI, suggests survey

A new report attempts to identify the hurdles organisations across industries face in the adoption of AI, and to unveil the often overlooked energy...

AD plant converts waste solvents to biogas, in a UK first

In an apparent first of its kind within the UK, a pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Northumberland has been equipped with an anaerobic digestion (AD)...

New tool models viability of closed-loop geothermal systems

Web tool looks belowground for an economically viable renewable energy source. Text by DOE/Sandia National Laboratories. Geothermal power has a lot of promise as a...

65% of industry emissions can be reduced with long duration energy storage, says new...

Long-duration energy storage (LDES) can abate up to 65% of industrial emissions using currently existing technologies, according to a new report from decarbonization nonprofit...

£36m award will use waste heat from data centres to heat homes in London

The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat...