Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

“This is good news for the UK’s growing green gas industry,” said ADBA Chair Chris Huhne, welcoming the announcement. “The extension until 2028 gives investors and developers more long-term certainty to build new biogas plants.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Plastic packaging use and plastic packaging collection quantities have dropped for the first time in RECOUP’s annual UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey. The UK’s overall recycling rate for plastic packaging from household and commercial sources is 52%. Both have reduced by around 5%.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 25, 2023

On the same day, Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf visited the power station on the shores of Loch Awe, where he underlined his call for the UK Government “to provide an appropriate market mechanism for hydro power and other long duration energy storage technologies.” billion for the UK economy by 2035.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Hydrogen can be used in innovative ways in industries like steel manufacturing (image credit: Zhang Sheng / Shutterstock.com) In a bid to elevate transparency and confidence in the UK’s low carbon hydrogen sector, the UK government has outlined plans for “a globally recognised low carbon hydrogen certification scheme.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A new partnership may pave the way for more than £400 million to be invested in recycling facilities across the UK. This will seemingly be the first of 10 new green, advanced recycling facilities that the two firms are jointly seeking to build and operate across the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Chris Huhne, chair of the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA), welcomed the announcement: “This extension of the application deadline for the Green Gas Support Scheme is great news for the industry. ADBA also expects positive news on the other proposals outlined in the consultation.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 11, 2024

The UK’s main climate science denial party has gained its first member of parliament with the defection of suspended Conservative MP Lee Anderson. Anderson announced today that he was joining Reform UK , a right-wing, anti-green and anti-immigration party which is currently polling at 12 percent.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

There are challenges to surmount when it comes to achieving circularity for cartons, but a trade group for the sector, the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK, has launched a campaign – Carton Ready – to support the implementation of the UK Government’s Simpler Recycling reforms.

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Charged

APRIL 8, 2024

More bad news for the ubiquitous anti-EV trolls: the million-mile EV battery is in sight. The new battery pack is designed to power commercial EVs such as buses and trucks. Yutong says the new pack, which it plans to use in upcoming EVs, exhibits zero degradation through the first 1,000 cycles.

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Energy Storage News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

UK battery storage and flexible generation developer-operator Statera Energy has secured a £300 million (US$375 million) financing package for its Thurrock project, its first news since being bought by investor EQT.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2023

Members of the Healthy Air Coalition, a collective which campaigns for a UK free from toxic air, are urging the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to pursue additional routes for consultation to allow these organisations to have their say. of UK local authorities have one or more still in place.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Geothermal Engineering Limite d (GEL), together with its investors Kerogen Capital and Thrive Renewables , is pleased to announce that it has been awarded Contracts for Difference (CfD) in the UK Allocation Round 5 (AR5) process for three projects. ” Interview with Dr. Ryan Law, Founder and CEO of Geothermal Engineering Ltd.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

UK’s coal-hungry blast furnaces likely to be replaced, making economic case for mine ‘dead in the water’ says local MP News of the likely closure of the UK’s steel blast furnaces has prompted calls for the government to reconsider approval for a controversial Cumbrian coalmine that had been planned to supply the industry.

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Renew Economy

JULY 7, 2022

Offshore wind projects dominate the biggest and cheapest renewable energy auction run by the UK government to date. And it is good news for Australia. The post Stunning low prices for offshore wind in UK bode well for Australian plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Energy Central

MAY 1, 2023

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

AustralianSuper, cbus, HostPlus, CareSuper, HESTA and UniSuper have co-authored a new report with Australian fund IFM Investors calling for more favourable investment conditions underwritten by taxpayers to unlock private capital for the domestic transition to net zero emissions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Global energy storage platform provider Powin and Pulse Clean Energy, an investor, developer and operator of flexibility and stability assets in the UK, will deploy a 50MW/110MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) on the Scottish project Overhill, located in Aberdeen.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 6, 2024

Two recent news stories made me ponder this question. Firstly, it was reported that the UK’s Climate Change Committee was recommending that the UK Government refrain from carrying forward a surplus in its legality binding carbon budgets , arguing that this was caused by Covid restrictions rather than genuine decarbonisation.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 24, 2024

The British Geological Survey has published has released the first digital version of the UK legacy geothermal catalogue of subsurface temperature measurements, rock thermal conductivity measurements, and heat flow calculations. Version 1 of the UK legacy geothermal catalogue is available online ( [link] ) with an accompanying user guide.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 25, 2024

GEL) in Cornwall, UK. “It’s a very, very exciting day, today – we are starting the construction of the UK’s first geothermal power plant,” said Ryan Law, CEO of Geothermal Engineering Ltd. . In 2023, GEL became the first geothermal developer in the UK to be awarded Contracts for Difference (CfD).

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It won’t be news to regular Charged readers that myths and misconceptions about EVs have taken deep root among the populace. When I tell a new acquaintance that I write about EVs, as often as not their reply is some sound bite that could be a direct quote from an oil industry social media feed.

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Charged

MAY 5, 2023

ChargeUK, which says it brings together 18 of the largest companies installing EV charge points in the UK, has announced that the association will invest more than £6 billion in the installation and operation of new EV charging infrastructure by 2030. Source: Industrial News

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 5, 2024

The British Geological Survey (BGS) has broken ground on a geothermal heat pump project at its headquarters in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire in the UK. The geology in Keyworth will make the information gathered at the site transferable to other parts of the UK. million project.

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Green Living Guy

APRIL 28, 2022

and 12-tonne Volta Zeros have been designed by Volta Trucks’ partner, Astheimer Design in Warwick, UK alongside Volta Trucks’ own […]. and 12-Tonne Models appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, Texas, Nevada.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 10, 2024

The Cheshire Observatory is part of the UK Geoenergy Observatories network, a £31 million investment from the UK Government to deliver essential new data from the subsurface to build knowledge on clean energy. More information is available at the UK Geoenergy Observatories website , or contact ukgeosenquiries@bgs.ac.uk.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 15, 2022

DHL is the UK’s largest logistics company. Today the company announces it has begun operating the first purpose-built fully electric 16-tonne vehicle in the UK. The Volvo FL Electric 4×2 rigid is now part of DHL Supply Chain’s fleet in London. Moreover, making last-mile deliveries into the West End shopping district.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 17, 2022

SEK 50 M for 10 percent in the UK-based second-life battery energy storage specialist Connected Energy. In its mission to support and secure an attractive and sustainable circular business model for batteries, Volvo Energy is investing approx. There is a great deal of untapped potential in the second-life use of batteries.

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Global Renewable News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The Marine Energy Council (MEC) has welcomed today's (Sept 8) news that 11 tidal stream projects have secured contracts in the Government's latest renewable auction. Over 50MW of tidal strea.

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Charged

AUGUST 11, 2023

Tata Sons, a subsidiary of the sprawling Tata Group, plans to invest over £4 billion to build a 40 GW battery cell gigafactory in the UK. The facility will produce cells for EVs and stationary storage solutions for the UK and European markets. Source: Battery Tech News

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Global Renewable News

MARCH 10, 2024

Menter Môn Morlais Ltd has welcomed the news that tidal stream energy has again been ringfenced by UK Government as part of its most recent Contracts for Difference (CfD) energy auction this week.

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Charged

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The beleaguered English auto industry got some good news this week, as Nissan and its partners announced plans to invest some £2 billion to build three electric car models at its Sunderland factory, which employs about 6,000 workers (and indirectly supports thousands more). Nissan will invest £1.12

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 25, 2024

The University of Leeds in the UK has started work to test the geothermal potential at several sites within the campus. Source: University of Leeds ( 1 , 2 , and 3 ) The post Geothermal heating being explored at University of Leeds, UK first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2023

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch hails investment in domestic lithuim producer as 'fantastic news' for the UK EV industry

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 15, 2024

” This webinar is being hosted by WING UK, the UK chapter of Women in Geothermal (WING). Source: WING UK via LinkedIn The post Webinar – Geothermal development in Africa: Beyond the Rift, 3 April 2024 first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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Charged

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This is excellent news, because offering EVs to rental car customers could have a multiplier effect—who’d want to go back to their gas-burner after driving electric for a week? Source: Automotive News Europe. The first model to be offered will be the BYD Atto, a compact SUV.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The International Monetary Fund found in September 2022 that the energy crisis was hitting UK households harder than any country in western Europe, due to the UK’s reliance on gas for heating homes. While in office, Truss lifted the UK’s ban on fracking for shale gas, a policy advocated by the IEA.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A new government advisor on the minimum wage is the head of an international network of climate crisis deniers funded by the owners of GB News, DeSmog can reveal. On 6 February, former prime minister Liz Truss attacked “net zero zealots” at the launch of her new Popular Conservatism faction.

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