Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Improved habitat for birds, bees and other wildlife is to be created along the River Thames in Kent and Essex in a new partnership between the Port of London Authority (PLA) and the RSPB. It will also provide new connections between areas of habitat, a further Vision environment goal. .”

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

CEO of the Marine Conservation Society, Sandy Luk, said: “This is a momentous court case to hold the UK Government to account for our right to a clean and healthy ocean. This is a potential game changer for future environmental challenges.” This is achievable, but we need urgent and decisive action from the Government to make it happen.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Smart Wires technology being installed by UK Power Networks near Colchester, Essex. An innovative device has seemingly freed up 95MW of additional network capacity – enough to power 45,000 homes – leading its supplier to declare that it has been successfully proven in the UK. At its heart, this is a story of optimisation.

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Technology Energy Energy Innovation 140

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Dr Matthew Pound, Associate Professor in Physical Geography, and Dr Martha Gibson, Research Fellow in Paleoclimatology at Northumbria University, explore how the climate crisis will affect the UK in an article originally written for The Conversation. But what will the climate crisis mean for the relatively mild UK? million to 5.3

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Essex-based waste management and recycling solutions provider, Green Recycling, has achieved its goal of becoming the UK’s first picker-less C&I MRF with the help of a sensor-based sorting system able to identify the weight and quantity of plastics, one of a number of features enabled by AI.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Planning approval has been granted to EDF Renewables UK for three grid-scale lithium-ion battery sites strategically located in Kent, Norwich and Essex. EDF UK cites the importance of such facilities to stabilise the grid while bringing more renewable energy online.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2022

Since launching Smart Connect in February 2021, UK Power Networks says it has approved more than 2000 new applications for electric car chargers, heat pumps, batteries and solar panels in record time. The service works by using AI to process data about each household installation.

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2021

The investment builds on the successful launch of the UK's first electric forecourt last year in Braintree, Essex. The partnership also encompasses the UK's first net zero EV leasing business, which is designed to bring the cost of driving EVs down below petrol and diesel cars, the firms said.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This fingerprint is then run through our machine learning algorithm that has been trained using soils of various types from across the UK, and results provide soil quality indicators for the specific soil sample. The whole process, from loading the soil sample to receiving results to your phone, takes a little over five minutes.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Alphasense, the UK-based manufacturer of gas detection sensors, is celebrating its 25th anniversary in October 2021. Originally founded by Scientist and Entrepreneur Paul Gotley OBE in 1996, the company started life in small premises in Great Dunmow, Essex.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Innovate UK has added an additional £295,000 ($400,000) in a pilot programme that aims to develop a virtual power plant using electric vehicles. The £295K increases the funding which Innovate UK has provided to technology firm ev.energy to £754,000 ($1,022 million) for the implementation of the Maximise Grid Services pilot project.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A plot of land next to one of the busiest roads in Essex has become a home for a variety of endangered wild birds, in work undertaken by National Highways. This periodic review of bird populations across the UK is used to identify and support conservation around those species considered most at risk.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2021

UK Power Networks reveals it has firmed up 34 new solar farm connection contracts in just three eastern counties since the start of the year. UK Power Networks said most of the new connections are for mid-size solar farms on former agricultural land as landowners swap crops for clean energy.

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Investment Agriculture Energy Energy 90

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2021

First of seven utility-scale grid batteries planned by GIG across UK reaches financial close. First acquired from Capbal Ltd earlier this year, the proposed portfolio includes seven battery storage projects strategically located in "highly congested areas of the UK power network" including Scotland and South East England, according to GIG.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Uncrewed Surface Vessel USV Maxlimer – from UK firm SEA-KIT International – has returned from an initial survey mission inside the caldera of the volcano. The 12-metre USV is being remotely controlled on its caldera missions from SEA-KIT’s base in Essex, where a team of four operators work shifts for round-the-clock.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Solar plants planned for Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Essex hailed as an 'important addition' to developer's growing portfolio. Low Carbon said the projects were "an important addition" to its growing project portfolio in the UK, Europe and North America and would help avoid approximately 16,000 tonnes of CO2e emissions annually.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Britain’s distribution network operator UK Power Networks is exploring how drone technology can help improve fault response along its rural networks. Engineers teamed up with UK Power Networks’ innovation team to trial the DJI Mavic 3 drones giving a bird’s eye view of power lines from a laptop. ”

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

Source separated materials are taken back to the firm’s facility in Essex, before being sent to vetted re-processors in the UK. Once full, boxes are sealed and collected by Paper Round from the convenience of their customers’ workplace.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 130

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In a new contract between Siemens Grid Software and UK-based Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), over one million smart water meters will connect to a new Siemens data management platform by 2030. The system will ultimately help NWG to meet UK water regulator Ofwat’s targets for reducing leakages and per capita consumption.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A new factory-built home designed to be so energy efficient that occupants would not have to pay gas or electricity bills is set to be installed at an Essex housing estate, as part of a pilot project announced this week by modular housing developer Ilke Homes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Ahead of November opening for trail-blazing EV charging station, Gridserve confirms leading retail chains are set to open outlets at the new electric forecourt in Essex. Alongside charging infrastructure partners ABB and Tesla, customer support will be provided the AA, which this week announced plans for a new dedicated EV support service.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

The FlexCollect project is undertaking a series of test-runs across the UK in a bid to enable a country-wide roll-out of recycling collection services that include flexible plastics as standard. Despite accounting for 22 per cent of UK consumer plastic, only eight per cent of flexible plastics was recycled in 2020, according to FPF.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The government and Ford have today announced a £600m loan guarantee deal to 'turbo-charge' the auto giant's plans to ramp up electric vehicle (EV) production at its UK factories. The investment will enable the significant expansion of Ford's powertrain production lines at its sites in Halewood, Merseyside and Dunton, Essex.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

GRIDSERVE aims to have a UK-wide network of ultra-fast charging stations operational within five years. GRIDSERVE's electric forecourt is being built just off the A131 near Braintree in Essex. GRIDSERVE's electric forecourt is being built just off the A131 near Braintree in Essex.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Tesco is partnering with renewable energy investor Low Carbon to deliver a major green electricity project that will deliver three new solar farms in the UK by 2021. In 12 months' time, the UK will host the most critical climate change summit of the decade, known as COP26," said Tesco UK and ROI CEO Jason Tarry. "At

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Visiting the Essex facility, Floods Minister Rebecca Pow said it had been “fascinating” to see the work taking place at the centre first-hand. Winter storms of 2013/14 , From mid-December to early January, the UK experienced a spell of extreme weather as a succession of major winter storms brought widespread impacts to the UK.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2023

If more homes in the UK produce clean, green solar energy, we will be able to accelerate the energy transition and bring down system prices for everybody by lowering system costs.". Octopus Energy said it now plans to complete 5,000 installations this year. Octopus said it aims to increase the number of 'Zero Bill homes to 10,000 by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 16, 2021

After a recent shutdown at a French nuclear power plant due to the clogging of cooling tunnels by fish, industry experts have warned that new UK-based nuclear power plants will face the same issues – and they’re offering an acoustic deterrent system they say has a track record in resolving the problem.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2023

million) project is supported by European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK Space Agency and will run for an initial two years to test its technical and commercial viability and to develop a market plan. We envisage wider potential in other sectors of the UK and global economies.”. The €1 million (US$1.1 Have you read?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Charge point company touts electric hub as part of an ongoing push to tackle 'charging disparity' across the UK. Wales currently has among the lowest number of charge points per capita in the UK, with South Wales alone amounting to just half the average proportion of EVs compared to the rest of the UK.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

Supermarket giant hopes to replicate eco-elements of Little Clacton shop across its UK-wide chain as part of net zero plans. Morrisons said that the new green initiatives had the potential to be scaled up and introduced across its entire chain of supermarkets, which currently comprises 497 shops across the UK.

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Business Green

APRIL 11, 2022

Earth Capital's £3.75m investment in Essex-based manufacturer also comes in addition to £1.7m An Essex-based firm which claims to have developed an ultra-low water use toilet flush system has scooped up a further £3.75m funding injection from leading clean technology investor Earth Capital, it announced yesterday.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2022

As large areas of the UK continue to face drought conditions following this summer's record-breaking heatwave, Anglian Water has this week announced it is looking to raise £225m to fund the development of 400km of strategic pipelines to help move water across the country to combat drought in drier regions.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Essex is the area with the highest number of potential new construction and property jobs – with a total of 12,841 roles likely to be created or in demand. 7] Homes are a major source of climate change: accounting for 15% of emissions in the UK in 2018, primarily from natural gas use for heating and cooking[8].

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 20, 2022

Gridserve, a tech-enabled sustainable business that runs the Gridserve electric highway, has opened the first compact electric forecourt in Norwich, England, UK. Norwich and the wider east of England region currently have comparatively low EV charger coverage compared to other regions in the UK. Gridserve’s electric forecourts.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Epping Forest is a 2400-hectare stretch of ancient woodland between London and Essex; it is made up of more than 50 areas of woodland, grassland, bridleway, recreational space and is home to over 50,000 ancient pollard trees and 100 lakes and ponds.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The UK will require a "retrofit army" of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers to carry out the enormous work required to scale up infrasructure and refit buildings in pursuit of net zero emissions by 2050, new research from green policymaker coalition UK100 has found.

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