Trade group secures tax win for solar and batteries for householders

HMRC confirm 5% VAT for batteries when sold with a new solar system On 3 August the Solar Trade Association (STA) was celebrating securing a...

Actuators enable reliable and economical automation at hydroelectric facility

Rotork says its CK Range modular electric valve actuators have provided a reliable and economical automated flow control solution for a hydroelectric generating station...

UK households shun green energy

Survey finds just one per cent are on a green tariff Energy providers are being urged to do more to promote green energy after a...

A fair wind for rural residents as island community looks forward to 24/7 electricity...

It may be better known for woolly sweaters than renewable energy, but the most remote inhabited island in the UK is to finally receive...

AD industry pays tribute to late Hugh Vaughan at awards dinner

The anaerobic digestion industry celebrated the life of one of its pioneers, Hugh Vaughan, at its annual AD & Biogas and Industry Awards on...

Conference presentations point to LiDAR’s growing preeminence in offshore wind measurement

Wind measurement experts gathered in London in June concluded that LiDAR technology had over the years fully proven its ability to provide wind measurements...
Flogas technical staff at the Widnes site.

Things to know about propane enrichment

Greg Brown of Flogas looks at how propane enrichment is used for injecting biogas into the gas grid - and explains why it's an...
The trend for sewage plants to add biomethane upgrading technology is ongoing.

Maximising the biomethane opportuities for sewage

Matt Hale of HRS Heat Exchangers on optimising the use of heat in the AD sector In the UK, the wastewater treatment sector has used...
The SynHydroO project integrates distributed renewable energy into the grid by combining it with pumped hydro storage.

Innovative energy management system delivered for solar + storage project

QOS Energy, a renewable O&M analytics software provider, has completed the delivery of an Energy Management System for SunHydrO, a combined renewable energy and...

Support for portable solar + storage research via KTP with storage firm

Voltage optimisation and energy storage firm Powerstar is currently involved in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University and Innovate...

Battery aggregator secures funds to advance grid-balancing plans

Home battery firm Moixa has secured £2.5 million in new investment to help realise its goal of creating a virtual power plant aggregating the...

Feedstock specialist claims first with productivity-optimised blend

Amur is addressing the anaerobic digestion market with the launch of a feedstock blended to a specification designed expressly to optimise productivity - a...

Reduction in embedded generator payments ‘misguided’, says ADBA

On 20 June the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) called on Ofgem to reconsider its retroactive decision to reduce embedded generator payments, saying...

Successful projects announced for €3m research programme looking at offshore wind impacts

Wind power developer Vattenfall has awarded €3million of research funding to projects that promise to offer insight into the socio-economic impact of offshore wind...

Finland has the world’s most energy-saving supermarket, says R&D group – half of the...

Savings are also being achieved by levelling out power consumption peaks Finland seemingly now has the world's most energy-efficient supermarket, consuming only 40% of...

Why waste heat recovery is so important

Best practice for business dictates that ways to improve operational efficiency should be constantly sought out, says Neil English, Managing Director of waste heat...

Fife students reach new heights with virtual reality training for offshore wind turbine technicians

An ‘Immersive Hybrid Reality’ (iHR) laboratory, providing ultra-realistic training environments for offshore wind turbine technicians, was unveiled on 15 June at the Rosyth Campus...

Old bike parts turn the cogs of wave energy harvester

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZEYSopkxT8 Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have used old bike parts and a disused pressure cooker to create a wave energy harvester powerful enough to...

One of the biggest biomedical laboratories in Europe receives BREEAM ‘excellent’ rating

The recently opened Francis Crick Institute in London has achieved BREEAM Excellent certification. Dedicated to tackling scientific questions underpinning health and disease, the centre...

Modular system cuts cost of deep offshore wind

A seemingly revolutionary approach to offshore wind turbine installation and maintenance could cut the cost of energy from future deepwater sites by around 9%. The...