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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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The temporary desalination facility will ensure the Sizewell C project has the water it needs until a new water main provides a permanent supply in the early 2030s. Desalination will become an important future technology in the UK as the effects of climate change put greater strain on water supplies in rivers and reservoirs.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 27, 2024

According to UK-based grid consultancy Roadnight Taylor, the DNO – in this case, SSEN Distribution – monitors power flow through supergrid transformers and controls the output of customers connecting under the Technical Limits scheme, so that the limit is never exceeded. “The

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Subsurface specialist company Getech has completed a geothermal study for UK-based oil and gas developer Angus Energy , assessing and identifying several promising areas for geothermal energy production in the Southwest England region.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

London is a very charged city these days , but EV advocates point out that other areas of the UK are sadly lacking in charging infrastructure. aims to address this situation, deploying thousands of new charge points across the UK, many of them in the Midlands. Source: Current News EV charging network operator Be.EV

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The event takes place in Birmingham, UK, and online, on 28-29 September 2021, with challenges around phosphorus as one of its key themes. Around 783 new final effluent consents for phosphate removal are coming into force before 2025 as part of the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP), more than ever before.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

National Grid is accelerating the connection of up to 20GW of clean energy projects to its electricity transmission and distribution networks in England and Wales as part of ongoing collaborative work across industry in the UK.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The 1.8GW wind farm is anticipated to produce enough clean electricity to power almost two million UK homes, making a significant contribution to the UK's goal of delivering 40GW of offshore wind capacity by 2030.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Renewable energy developer's largest UK solar project to date set to begin generating power from later next year. Lightsource BP is to kickstart construction of a 61MW solar farm in Nottinghamshire next month, marking the renewable energy developer's largest solar project to date in the UK.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Gateshead mine water heating scheme located in northeastern England has been hailed a great success six months after it officially started operations in March 2023. There are plans to expand the network to cover a new conference centre, a hotel development, and an additional 270 privately owned homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Andrew Welsh is water utilities director at Xylem UK. ” What is the current smart metering landscape in the UK? As of September 2023 , the Environment Agency reported that an estimated 14% of households in England had smart meters, a figure expected to rise to around 40% by 2030 – and to 65% by 2050.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 23, 2024

A new geothermal heat pump system has been installed at the Kingston Lacy in Dorset, England, home to one of the most important collections of the National Trust in the UK. Source: The Guardian The post Geothermal heat pump system installed in Kingston Lacy, UK first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

All homes and office buildings built in England will soon be equipped with electric car charge points, under proposals designed to ramp up the number of chargers across the country ahead of the 2030 phase out of new fossil fuel vehicles. All new homes in England to include electric car chargers. Great news ?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Pharmaceuticals company announces new partners in support of plans to plant one million trees around the UK. AstraZeneca UK today launched a new £2m initiative in partnership with Forestry England, Borders Forest Trust, and One Tree Planted to plant more than one million trees in England and Scotland by 2025.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tony Juniper is set to remain at the helm of Natural England for another three years, with the veteran campaigner and environmentalist having been reappointed as the organisation's chair, it was announced yesterday. Looking to the future and there is a lot to do," Juniper said. "In

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Only 14% of rivers in England are considered ecologically healthy[7], and the UK has only a handful of inland water bathing sites, compared to France which has over 500 river sites and over 1,000 lakes designated[6]. England’s first river bathing site on the River Wharfe near Ilkley, West Yorkshire, received its designation in 2020.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 9, 2024

UK-based Star Energy Group plc (Star Energy) has announced the closing of a new €25 million secured facility that will provide funding for both its transition to geothermal energy and continued investment in its oil and gas business. The credit facility has been provided by Kommunalkredit Austria AG.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

The support on offer will come as welcome news to businesses in the North West, following news in May 2021 that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng are calling on every small business in the UK to take small, practical steps to cut their emissions as part of the UK’s journey to net zero.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

Almost three quarters of homes in England and Wales are still exclusively warmed by gas central heating, a drop of just four per cent in 10 years. The UK remains way off to track to meet its heat pump deployment goals, according to a new analysis of census data that confirms the vast majority of UK homes remain reliant on gas boilers.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 17, 2021

Three dozen Christian organisations and institutions from across the world — including dioceses from the Church of England — announced their divestment from fossil fuels today and urged leaders to take greater action on climate change ahead of major global summits this year.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 19, 2024

National Grid forecasts a 64% growth in power demand to 2035, the UK’s target for net zero. The network upgrade plan would see new infrastructure delivered to connect both onshore and offshore wind power where needed alongside solutions that can optimise the location of strategic, flexible demand connections in the future. .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

The NRG was formed in the wake of the 2019 general election, when a wave of Tory MPs took over traditionally Labour-held ‘red wall’ seats across northern England. News of the donations comes as the government stands accused of watering down its net zero targets. The NRG did not respond to DeSmog’s requests for comment.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2022

News that start-up behind Northumberland gigafactory project is facing collapse comes as electric black cab maker LEVC announces major layoffs. The UK government had pledged to provide £100m to the project from the Automotive Transformation Fund once construction work at Blyth passed a certain milestone.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Confirming the milestone this morning to coincide with COP26's official Transport Day, the UK's largest supermarket chain said Glasgow was the first city in Scotland where it had completely ended the use of fossil fuel vans in its delivery fleet.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 29, 2023

UK-based geothermal heat developer GT Energy was acquired by IGas back in 2020. GT Energy had previously been selected as the preferred contractor to deliver a geothermal heat solution for the Salisbury District Hospital NHS Trust in Wiltshire, England. The transaction was done for EUR 1.3

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are to join a growing backbench rebellion against the government's decision to retain the de facto ban on onshore wind farms, which experts have accused of driving up energy costs and undermining the UK's energy security.

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Charged

OCTOBER 30, 2020

However, on a local level in the UK, we have now stopped selling diesel cars.”. Regulations are becoming clearer in Europe and we’re responding to that challenge,” Tom Gardner, Honda’s Senior VP for Europe, told Sky News. Earlier this year, Honda shuttered its Swindon factory in southwest England.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Andrew Welsh is water utilities director at Xylem Water Solutions UK & Ireland. The transition between five-year asset management plan (AMP) periods in the regulatory cycle of the water industry in England and Wales is always a challenging time. That comes on top of the £5.2 Deep engagement will ensure they meet their challenges.

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Business Green

AUGUST 3, 2022

Leading players in the UK's energy, pensions, and infrastructure sectors have today teamed up to form a new joint venture to ramp up investment in the country's booming offshore wind industry. Harnessing the UK's strong wind resources out at sea will help provide energy security and bring down energy bills.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2021

Chancellor demands that PCA and FCA take net zero target into account, just weeks after similarly updating key Bank of England regulators' remit. The regulators' new remits should boost the competitiveness of the UK's financial services sector by enabling it to "seize the opportunities from the transition to net zero", the government said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Confirming the milestone this morning to coincide with COP26's official Transport Day, the UK's largest supermarket chain said Glasgow was the first city in Scotland where it had completely ended the use of fossil fuel vehicles in its delivery fleet.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2020

New charity Heal plans to raise £7m to buy and rewild 500-acres (200ha) of land in southern England within two years, before replicating the project further afield. A new charity with ambitions to become a "rewilding landowner" is planning to use crowdfunding to buy ecologically depleted land and return it to its natural state.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

A Conservative peer who was until last year a trustee of the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group is set to be appointed to a parliamentary committee tasked with overseeing the UK government’s climate policy. Lilley has been contacted for comment. Environmental credentials.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Right-leaning UK newspapers provide some of the least scientifically accurate coverage of climate change among outlets analysed in a new study, with the Daily Mail and Telegraph “well behind the curve”, according to one of its authors. . The study found that 72.5 Coverage in the Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph was 81.4

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

SSE and Equinor have reached financial close on the first two phases of the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm, today agreeing to jointly invest a total of £6bn towards construction of the giant project off the north east coast of England.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Set to be the world's largest offshore wind farm once it comes online in the 2026, the Dogger Bank Wind Farm project is being built in three phases, which together secured 3.6GW of offshore wind contracts through the UK government's Contracts for Difference auctions last year. The order for the turbines, which stand at 248 metres tall - or 2.5

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Government eyes end date for sales of new fossil fuel buses by 2032 at the latest, as it touts fresh funding for zero emissions buses across England. It estimates the new buses could remove over 57,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide and 22 tonnes of nitrogen oxides on average each year.

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