DeSmogBlog

JULY 21, 2023

Sunak, whose constituency is in North Yorkshire, used the platform to declare that he is a “prime minister for the north”. 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. billion in government backing that the firm is seeking.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2022

Areas set to benefit from the near-£200m funding announced today are: Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Portsmouth, Blackpool, Nottingham, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, South Yorkshire, Oxfordshire, West Midlands, York and West Yorkshire.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2023

Until we have this clarity, we are pausing our multi-million pound investment programme in the UK BECCS project and urge government to use the planned announcement at the end of the month to outline their support for this."

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

The modular housing arm of insurance giant Legal & General has secured planning permission to build 154 energy-efficient homes in Selby, North Yorkshire. Our journey to revolutionise the UK's construction industry is well underway, and planning consent at Portholme Road in Selby is testament to this.".

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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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Energy firm announces it will not develop new gas fired power at its site in North Yorkshire as it looks to focus on biomass and carbon capture plans. ClientEarth lawyer Sam Hunter-Jones described the decision as "a massive win for the UK and the climate". "In

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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. per cent stake from Global Infrastructure Partners in the 1.2GW Hornsea One wind farm is off the Yorkshire coast.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2020

EXCLUSIVE: As the government deliberates on bringing forward its ban of new sales of fossil fuel cars into the first half of the next decade, the Scottish energy company has called for a separate rule mandating corporate fleet decarbonisation by 2030. million vehicles could be switched to EVs.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Upcoming Energy Security Strategy expected to include higher targets for offshore and floating wind, alongside new energy efficiency measures. Moreover, the strategy is expected to set out plans to reduce demand for power and heating by increasing the energy efficiency of buildings, sources quoted by the news agency suggested.

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Business Green

JULY 15, 2021

Carbon Clean awarded major contract by Acorn Project, as plans announced for major new Teesside CCS power project and proposals unveiled for world-leading hydrogen storage facilities. Sembcorp Energy UK (SEUK) and US clean energy innovation firm 8 Rivers Capital, acting through its UK subsidiary Zero Degrees Whitetail Development Ltd.

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Business Green

MAY 15, 2020

The firm announced today that it has inked a deal with Gresham House Storage Fund to provide market access and optimise revenue for the 50MW/75MWh Thurcroft energy storage site in South Yorkshire, while helping National Grid ESO balance energy supply and demand.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Renewable Connections secures green light for 42MW solar and battery farm in eastern Scotland, as RWE touts plans for huge solar project in Yorkshire.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Danske Commodities has inked a 15-year deal to trade and balance 480MW of electricity generation capacity each year from the world's largest offshore wind farm Dogger Bank, which is currently being developed around 130 miles off the coast of Yorkshire. million average British homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The campaign has been backed by the national Love Water initiative, which includes over 40 organisations and is jointly spearheaded by the Environment Agency and Water UK. Environmental issues are high on the news agenda at the moment and this is making everyone think about how their behaviour has an impact on the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Labour Party has been accused of helping biomass energy giant Drax engage in “green spin” by holding a climate event at its upcoming conference sponsored by the North Yorkshire company. They join Drax Group’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Clare Harbord, and Emma Pinchbeck, CEO of industry group Energy UK.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2023

The government said the Investment Zones, which build on plans first touted in the Autumn Statement last year, marked a "pioneering new approach to accelerate research and development in the UK's most budding industries", including the green economy and clean technologies. Cutting-edge innovation starts at a local level," she said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Department for Transport today confirmed an additional £56m in public and industry funding is to be made available to deliver up to 2,400 new chargepoints in the near term. The transition to electric vehicles remains one of the most pressing challenges of our generation.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Labour’s energy spokesperson has said he stands “completely” with biomass giant Drax, despite admitting that its use of wood pellets in its North Yorkshire power station is not carbon neutral. The speakers at the panel event, “How Can the UK Build a Zero Carbon, Lower Cost Energy Future?” Completely With Them’.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Thames Water and industry association Water UK have also been contacted for comment. In an environmental performance assessment of water companies, the Agency gave one-star ratings to Southern Water and South West Water and two star ratings to Anglian Water, Thames Water, Wessex Water and Yorkshire Water.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Starmer said the 'Green Prosperity Plan' could combat the "vicious cycle of stagnation" and soaring energy bills that have been allowed to take hold of the UK economy under the Conservative government. But the war didn't ban onshore wind, the war didn't scrap home insulation, and the war didn't stall British nuclear energy.".

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

The move would make HGEN the first UK-listed investment company decicated to investing in both public and private hydrogen and hydrogen-focused assets. Simon Hogan, chairman of HGEN, said the new fund was "the first of a kind". We have established HydrogenOne to fill that gap.".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

New partnership to explore plans to convert a town in Lincolnshire to run on low carbon hydrogen gas. Dan Sadler, Vice President of UK Low Carbon Solutions at Equinor, said the plans had the potential to help further cement the Humber's position as one of the UK's leading clean tech hubs.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Energy company says carbon capture technology partnership is first of its kind in the UK. Drax Group has announced it is to work with Japanese engineering giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on the development of its proposed bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility at its Yorkshire power plant.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 6, 2020

As well as funding tree planting across areas from Yorkshire to Somerset, the investment will also build a pipeline of projects for community planting in future years, according to the Department for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra). drive unveiled by the government yesterday aimed at boosting forest cover and storing carbon.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

That hydrogen-powered plant would have enough capacity to generate 900MW of electricity, and would galvanise the UK's nascent hydrogen economy with a peak demand of 1,800MW of the low-carbon fuel, the firms said.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Pillswood project employs Tesla 2-hour Megapack technology systems and according to Harmony Energy Income Trust has the capacity to store enough power for around 300,000 UK homes for two hours. Battery energy storage systems are essential to unlocking the full potential of renewable energy in the UK," he added.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

Deal marks one of the UK's largest ever green bus orders, following funding from local authorities and the Department for Transport. UK bus operator First Bus has placed an £81m order for 193 electric buses, which it plans to roll out around the UK from March next year.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Energy supplier touts tie-up with engineering services company Worley as evidence plan to build UK's largest carbon capture project in Yorkshire is moving ahead. In October, the Cluster was selected by the UK government as a priority project for public industrial decarbonisation funding.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Tie-up between automaker and National Parks UK commits carmaker to funding nature restoration, biodiversity, and wellbeing projects. The first recharging stations are already being installed under the partnership in the Lake District, the UK's most frequented National Park.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

A notable omission from the shortlist is Drax's proposed bioenergy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project, which aims to significantly reduce the climate impact of the UK's largest power plant. Kintore will be a flagship project for Statera. Today, huge progress has been made," he said. "We

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

A group of leading Conservative backbench MPs has today published a wide-ranging new report exploring how the UK could tackle the 'energy trilemma' and deliver decarbonisation, energy security, and lower bills. There is potential to revitalise UK manufacturing to support the growing supply chain in pursuing UK energy sovereignty.".

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Drax's plan to expand Cruachan will strengthen the UK's energy security by enabling more homegrown renewable electricity to come online to power homes and businesses across the country, helping to end our reliance on imports and cut costs," said Ian Kinnaird, Scottish assets director at the company.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

Speaking yesterday, Johnson acknowledged that soaring energy bills mean the UK faces a tough period "through to next year", but he again expressed confidence that his successor would "provide a further package of support for helping people with the cost of energy". But we're going to get through it.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Leggett started the venture during the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic in part by using some of his proceeds from the sale of Solarcentury - the pioneering UK solar developer he established in 1998 - to Statkraft in a £117.7m In related news, the UK government yesterday announced an additional £4.4m deal in 2020.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. As gas is a globally priced commodity, Europe and the UK are facing severe impacts.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The near term outlook may be distressingly bleak, but there remains both bright spots in the UK economy and a credible route to long term future growth, all thanks to the net zero transition. per cent of the total - to the wider UK economy. As ECIU director Peter Chalkley argued, the UK's net zero economy is now impossible to ignore.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The government's promised Biomass Strategy in 2022 is a golden opportunity to cement the pivotal tole of biomass in the UK's net zero journey, writes REA chief executive Dr Nina Skorupska. Do you know what the UK's number one source of renewable energy is? That's 5-15 per cent of the UK's annual emissions in 2019.

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