Conference chair Dr Lesley Sloss introduced speakers from over 65 countries at the August event

Edinburgh event puts spotlight on mercury

MERCURY pollution attracted a significant amount of public interest at July's Mercury 2013 International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP), in Edinburgh....

Compact heat-recovery-from-sewage system now available for smaller installations

SHARC Energy has widened its offering by launching the PIRANHAâ„¢ wastewater heat recovery system in the UK and EU. The PIRANHA is described as...

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...

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...

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...
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

The heat from the draff

Paul Marsh reports on a novel use of distillery by-products as the feedstock for an ambitious CHP plant in Speyside, said to be the...

Shetland DH scheme selects reinforced polymer network

Shetland Heat Energy and Power (SHEAP) - the company responsible for the Lerwick district heating scheme - has for the first time in its...

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...
SIZE is becoming an issue in the anaerobic digestion sector

Small minded – Effective means of dealing with bio-degradable wastes

SIZE is becoming an issue in the anaerobic digestion sector with concerns that not all larger AD plants – generating 2MWe and handling about...

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...

Abandoned mines to create ‘green’ energy

Water found in disused coalmines has been identified as a new source of renewable energy for the UK, following a two-year study by Nottingham...
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Low carbon sector heats up

Stephanie Clark of Scottish Renewables examines the issues surrounding the Scottish government's forthcoming Heat Generation Policy Statement 2014 is so far shaping up to be...

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...

DECC grant for heat networks advocate

EXETER-based renewable energy firm Zero has received a £378,780 development grant from DECC to support its work in promoting the uptake of heat networks...

Waste-heat-to-electricity business picks up Institute of Physics award

An Elland-based firm whose turbine-based device has global potential to slash CO2 emissions by converting waste heat into electricity, has been awarded the Institute...

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...

Heat conference to explore role of heat in a changing world

The first speakers have been announced for the Heat 2015 conference, taking place in Central London on Wednesday 25 November. Organised by the Association...
DTR Series

Sponsored Content: Product-to-product heat recovery

Wastewater, sewage, effluents and sludge are useful sources of energy with the potential to heat (or in some circumstances cool) other products or materials in industrial processes.

Small-scale CHP shortlisted for Renewable Energy Awards

ENER-G has reached the finals of the 10th British Renewable Energy Awards, in recognition of its success as an innovator in combined heat...