Founder of electricity-from-heat firm named Swedish person of the year

Climeon’s founder and CEO Thomas Öström has been named Årets svensk, Swedish person of the year, in the category Innovation by the Swedish magazine...

Variable speed actuation for a large butterfly valve

Electric actuator specialist AUMA has supplied leading British valve manufacturer KOSO Kent Introl with an AUMA SEVEN HiMod variable speed actuator and a large...

Decarbonising heat: April event in Glasgow to discuss the challenges and opportunities

Solutions for heating the homes and businesses of the future will be under the microscope at Scottish Renewables’ Low-Carbon Heat Conference in Glasgow on...

Heat-from-wastewater joint venture reveals leisure centre heating project

In the first project to be delivered by a new joint venture between Scottish Water Horizons and SHARC Energy Systems and one of the...

Decarbonising Britain: why are we so cool on heat? (Plus a few words about...

Kevin Stickney, Managing Director of Erda Energy - a company supplying clean energy technologies and solutions to firms - asks why we’re lagging on...

Heat recovery from wastewater system wins Scottish environmental award

SHARC Energy Systems, in partnership with Scottish Water Horizons, has won the innovation award at the Scottish Green Energy Awards 2017. The awards, hosted by...

Advanced engineering provides compact waste heat recovery for the marine sector

The development of a new waste heat recovery system could not only deliver fuel savings of up to 8% for ship owners and operators...

Renewable heat legislation delay threatens climate goals, says AD trade group

Legislation on Renewable Heat Incentive delayed yet again due to Parliamentary backlog Government struggling to meet targets to decarbonise heat Further delay threatens building of AD...
Around £3.5 million will be invested in the former Johnnie Walker bottling plant.

Geothermal demonstrator

The Scottish Government is to invest £5.3 million to turn a former Kilmarnock bottling plant into a low carbon development

Heat pump innovator makes finals of Scottish sustainability award

Star Renewables' heat pump is being used on the River Clyde to deliver the Gorbals District Heating Scheme. The inventors of what is described...

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...

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...

Concrete effluent tank helps hospital meet standards

A Sealwall tank manufactured by Whites Concrete has become part of Rampton Hospital’s new Energy Centre in Nottinghamshire. The pre-cast concrete Sealwall Tank is a...

Veolia delivers more power to the Bradford: 50@50 programme

Resource management firm Veolia has increased low carbon generation for the University of Bradford (UoB) by over a third by designing and installing an...

Decarbonising heat the only scalable path to reach zero carbon goals, say conference speakers

Industrial sized district heatpumps which draw warmth from the air, rivers, lakes, the sea and the ground are expected to play a key role...

GIB invests £28m in Edinburgh EfW plant

UK Green Investment Bank plc (GIB) has today committed £28m of debt finance to a new £142m energy-from-waste (EfW) plant at Millerhill in Midlothian,...

2017 rateable values include unexpected business rates hike for solar rooftop

Business rates for ‘mainly export’ solar agreed with Valuations Office but concern over 6-8 fold tax hike for business solar rooftops The draft rateable values...

Simple servicing to get your AD site back to its best

Johan Ostlund, director at CooperOstlund, gives five simple servicing tips to breathe new life into your AD plant and improve energy generation performance. Working at...

UK firms supply parts and expertise for lauded Richgro AD plant in Western Australia

Pumps and mixers manufacturer Landia offers a rundown of the details of its involvement with Richgro's widely acclaimed AD plant in Jandakot, Western Australia,...

District heating pipe work has sustainable design rubber stamp

Flexalen 600 pipe work available from Flexenergy, a UK provider of district heating networks, is now Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Silver. This certification can...