Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But analysts warned the cut will come as cold comfort to many households given the price cap remains above the level set by the government's Energy Price Guarantee (EPG) support scheme. But given the government has set the EPG at £3,000 for a typical bill from April, consumers will not pay the full level of the energy price cap.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

But the company said in a statement that it had struggled to secure further investment to help smooth its path through the current volatile period, amid skyrocketing gas wholesale prices and the restrictions placed on how much it can recoup from billpayers to cover rising costs through the UK's energy price cap.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Under these pillars, the EU has updated targets on renewable energy and energy efficiency, and will phase out new polluting vehicles by 2035, while boosting charging infrastructure and the use of alternative fuels in road transport, shipping and aviation. The newly-created Social Climate Fund will dedicate €65 billion ($68.7 by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The growth of Home Energy Management (HEM) has led to a burgeoning, heretofore fragmented market, within which rages a business battleground of players large and small. The key to winning, explains Yusuf Latief in Smart Energy International ’s Power Playbook column, will be ownership of customer confidence. billion in 2021.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

But the company said in a statement that it had struggled to secure further investment to help smooth its path through the current volatile period, amid skyrocketing gas wholesale prices and the restrictions placed on how much it can recoup from billpayers to cover rising costs through the UK's energy price cap.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) said the campaign would be targeted at small and medium sized businesses and offer guidance on energy-saving measures such as installing light and heating timers, turning down boiler flow temperatures, and switching to more efficient lightbulbs.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Aamjiwnaang First Nation is a small region in Ontario surrounded by petrochemical facilities. Related: Researchers and Indigenous groups collaborate to save caribou Global News obtained the recent data via freedom of information laws. The data revealed that the levels of benzene and sulfur dioxide were far higher than recommended.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Liz Truss's new administration will today announce its much-anticipated new £150bn energy security package, confirming plans to freeze energy prices, lift the moratorium on fracking in the UK, and approve a wave of new North Sea oil and gas drilling licenses. The right thing to do.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ofgem is expected to announce on Friday that the energy price cap will rise to over £3,500 from October, as the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine continue to send the global price of gas soaring. We also need to maximise North Sea oil and gas production. — Sam Hall (@samuelhall0) August 21, 2022.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

So much for the good news. The bad news is that SAF is still very expensive — anything between two and five times the 2019 price of conventional jet fuel. for each additional 1% reduction beyond 50%, capped at $2. Airbus has conducted similar tests on other aircraft models and on a helicopter.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Hard to measure, hard to play down Unlike other areas of the planet, the Arctic is so inaccessible that there’s very little data to predict with precision how the ice cap will change under rapid warming. The shrinking ice cap accelerates warming globally. Source: RIA News.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As Tacoma Park Board Commissioner Erik Hanberg said in a news release, “The theme in ‘Dune’ of a world destroyed by environmental catastrophe drew in part from Frank Herbert’s life experiences in Tacoma, which in the 1950s was one of the nation’s most polluted cities. Inhabitat: Describe the woven geotextile cap. What is it?

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The £5.5bn scheme is three times less expensive to the taxpayer than the current scheme, which was conceived by the Truss administration in the autumn and effectively capped the price of electricity and gas paid by non-domestic customers. per MWh for electricity when wholesale prices are above £302 per MWh, and £6.97

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

  In the news, clean energy stocks continue to be haunted by rising interest rates with Li-Cycle and Siemens both falling 30%+. District of Columbia-based grid resilience software developer, raised $2M in Seed funding from Jetstream, Looking Glass, Intelis Capital, El Cap, Streetlife, and other investors.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Jacqueline Bourke, head of creative insights at iStock, tells BusinessGreen the exercise has indicated that images that showcase people taking small actions to tackle their emissions footprint have the most potential to drive positive outcomes for the planet. These trends were turbocharged by the Covid pandemic, she adds.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 3, 2020

Unlike in oil and gas, clean energy jobs are not regionally centralized, most companies are relatively small, and industry associations are numerous. As of June 15, the TSX Renewable and Clean Tech Index had grown 77 per cent over the past decade, while the TSX Energy Capped Index (essentially, oil and gas) had fallen 71 per cent.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

warmer on average than it was before 1850-1900, offering a very small window left to deliver on the Paris Agreement's target. The good news, however, is that fighting to slash emissions before 2030, and achieving net zero CO2 by 2050, significantly reduces the chances of these sorts of events taking place.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  In other news British banks increase their green ambitions while the opposition Labour party drops theirs. 🚗 Muffin Green Finance , a New Delhi, India-based EV financing platform, raised $17m in Series B funding from The State Bank of India, IREDA, AU Small Finance Bank, ICICI Bank, and Kotak Mahindra Investments. 

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

Clean waterways and national parks full of trees or wildlife come to mind, especially since environmental news often focuses on polar ice caps melting in the Arctic, deforestation in the Amazon and animals close to extinction. When most of us think about the environment, we tend to conjure certain images.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

2022 has begun - as we knew it would - with confirmation of an energy price cap rise and worsening living standards across the economy. There is no way round it, the UK domestic heat pump market is small at the moment; especially when compared to European neighbours. By contrast, over 400,000 were installed in France.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Most weeks bring fresh headlines of wildfires, droughts and rapidly melting ice caps. The small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that make up the supply chains of many of the world’s largest companies can access help in setting and achieving climate targets through the new SME Climate Hub.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

It is equally well understood that both engineered and nature-based carbon removals are likely to be critical to capping global temperature rises at 1.5C. The good news is, according to BeZero, is that the market is poised for significant change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

From large chains like Iceland to small outfits operating out of home offices, soaring energy prices could take a major chunk out of bottom lines while also putting turboboosters under wider inflationary pressures. Businesses can avail themselves of a number of incentives to beef up their electric vehicle (EV) stock.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The government is reportedly poised to announce a multi-billion pound package of state-backed loans in a bid to curb the sharp increase in domestic energy bills that is expected to be confirmed in an imminent update to the energy price cap.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Tom Greatrex, chief ex ecutive of the Nuclear Indus try Association, said: "The government's decision to enter advanced negotiations with EDF on Sizewell C is very good news for our environment and our economy. Sizewell is a vital next step towards the net zero power mix we need for the future.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

Aldi continues plastic packaging crackdown, as Coca-Cola begins transition to attached bottle caps in bid to boost recycling rates. In related news, soft drinks giant Coca-Cola today announced it has started the roll out of attached caps across its entire drinks portfolio in a bid to "boost collection and recycling, and help prevent litter".

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

The confirmation of long-awaited plans to invest in small-scale nuclear and carbon capture were broadly welcomed as measures that could put the UK at the forefront of new industries and boost the UK's low carbon domestic energy supplies. When it comes to the environment, this government isn't working."

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Ice caps are melting. Small island nations and least developed countries, major cities and regional economies all came with initiatives, as did a sizable representation from the private and financial sectors. In Greenland alone, 179 billion tonnes of ice melted in July. Antarctica is melting three times as fast as a decade ago.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2024

Under a very optimistic scenario, it could include global, legally binding plastic production caps for all U.N. And advocates hope that this agreement will ultimately have even more teeth. member states, plus some details on how rich countries should help poorer ones achieve their plastic reduction targets.

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Clean Energy Trust

MAY 7, 2021

Link Credit: The Bellingham Herald Washington State Puts a Cap on Carbon Washington state is on its way to having the most comprehensive climate policy in the United States. This is fantastic news for the electric vehicle supply chain in the United States. Link Is Venture Capital Worth It?

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Let’s take safety caps for an example. Charged chatted with Applications Engineers James Brewster and Steve Hopwood to learn more about the company’s new EV product line. Charged : What exactly is a safety cap? And because of safety caps’ characteristics and ratings, they’re of interest to the battery management sector.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2022

There's a huge opportunity for a win-win here which the government is passing up" UK Nuclear Industry Association chief executive Tom Greatrex said: "The new nuclear target of 24GW by 2050 is a vital step forward for UK energy security and our net zero future.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The hope is that by offering reusable cups with a small deposit reuse rates will increase and cups will be routinely returned, leading to lower levels of waste. And in further industry news, Morrisons announced this week that it has become the first UK supermarket to sell its own brand fresh milk in carbon neutral cartons.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Nuclear projects - large, small, and fusion - are part of the net zero vision. It will come into force on 1 January 2021 - so in just two and half weeks' time - and will immediately reduce the cap on CO2 emissions within the cap-and-trade system by five per cent, compared to the EU's system, according to the government.

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Mountain glaciers and polar ice caps are experiencing extensive and increasingly fast loss rates as global temperatures warm. Recent news articles also call for future environmental policies that consider adaptation strategies for both biodiversity loss and climate change together, instead of approaching them separately.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

The Colorado River, which originates in the snow-capped Rocky Mountains and provides water to some 40 million people in the Southwest, has slowed to a trickle. And, she added, the changes are nonlinear — a small change in temperature could lead to a much larger change in how thirsty the sky is. What will happen next?

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Most models suggest that this could could happen around the middle of this century, with more pessimistic forecasts suggesting total melting of the ice cap before 2035. Good news for boats, bad news for polar bears. The again, on the upside, it will also mean that entirely new areas will become available for agriculture.

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