Global Renewable News

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

To mark the end of the Future Energy Wales conference, where collaboration has been a central theme, Marine Energy Wales (MEW) and RenewableUK Cymru (RUKC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, o.

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MARCH 21, 2022

The Royal Mint has announced plans to build a “world first” plant in South Wales to recover gold from UK electronic waste. When fully operational in 2023, The Royal Mint says it expects to process up to 90 tonnes of UK-sourced circuit boards per week – generating hundreds of kilograms of gold per year.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Developers in Wales will soon be required to take into account flooding and coastal erosion when planning homes, buildings and infrastructure, under updated policy unveiled by the Welsh Government yesterday. James added that flood risk and coastal erosion was increasing across Wales as a result of global temperature rise.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 24, 2021

First students arrive at School of Sustainable Food and Farming in Newport, a partnership between Harper Adams University, the NFU, Morrisons, and McDonald's UK. What we are doing here is pioneering, and it will help the UK to lead the world in agricultural thinking and practice.".

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Map shows 350 coal tips close to communities as UK government unwilling to take on costs Edmund Richards, who worked for 40 years as a miner, shakes his head sadly as he gazes at one of the many disused coal tips at the head of the Rhondda Fawr valley in south Wales. They’re on the move,” he says. “No

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FuelCellsWorks

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A pioneering hydrogen project in Wales is celebrating its six-month milestone as one of the first operational hydrogen production facilities in the UK. Spearheaded by green hydrogen leader Protium, Pioneer.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Seabed landlord announced plans to carry out review of 'option structure' of scheme after 'unprecedented outcome' of the Crown Estate's latest leasing round in England and Wales. The Scottish government published a hydrogen action plan in late December that sets out its mission to generate 5GW of hydrogen by the end of the decade.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Using the incredibly powerful microscopes at The UK's National Nuclear Laboratory, Bangor University in Wales has helped analyze fuels manufactured by Westinghouse. In a world first, collaborative research has shown that a material that could be added to advanced fuel accumulates in certain regions, giving it desirable properties.

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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

JULY 13, 2022

New research appears to reveal how climate change is likely to increase the potential for wine production in the UK – with conditions projected to resemble those in famous growing regions of France and Germany. We found that significant areas within England and Wales are projected to become warmer by 2040 by up to a further 1.4°C

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

He says the UK Government has vastly underestimated the increasing costs to develop solar farms, where their assumptions suggest the UK can develop Solar Energy cheaper than anywhere else in the world; based on published data, which is clearly unrealistic! “We’re talking five to eight years for each one of these.”

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A new IMechE report sees a vital role for energy storage technologies in the exploitation of UK renewable energy. The competition, which is open to businesses of any size with an eligible site in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, will open two application windows in 2024 – the first in spring and the second in autumn.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

“We’ve got the plans and we’ve got the financial capital to invest, and the UK supply chain stands ready to benefit to the tune of billions.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

New fuels and technologies will account for between one half and three-quarters of the reduction of carbon emissions in aviation by 2050, according to a new report from sustainable development consultancy Arup and gas distribution network Wales and West Utilities (WWU).

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2024

Hitachi Energy has won an order from SP Energy Networks to design and deliver an innovative power quality solution to balance the grid and boost the flow of renewable energy across the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2024

UK conservation charity Buglife’s citizen science project, the Scottish Oil Beetle Hunt , is issuing a call for help. Scotland has fewer oil beetle records than both England and Wales, so it’s possible that oil beetles are under recorded in Scotland. Short-necked Oil Beetle (image credit: (c) Peadar O’Connell).

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JANUARY 24, 2024

Year-on-year, despite increases in material being recycled in the UK, quantities of plastic waste exported for recycling from England have increased by more than 10% to just over 600,000 tonnes. Malaysia and Vietnam, two non-OECD countries that had received decreasing volumes of UK waste in recent years, took around 8% each.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 29, 2020

And “mixed signals” from ministers such as potential lower UK food standards risk the “critical impact” of no free trade agreement for UK companies. The UK-EU political declaration agreed in October 2019 included commitments not to reduce environmental and climate protection and ensure a “level playing field” of common high standards.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

The pilot project, led by the University of South Wales, has been set up at the two huge Port Talbot iron-making furnaces, and it has already shown promising results, says the group. Tata Steel in the UK has delcared an ambition to produce net-zero steel by 2050 at the latest and to have eliminated 30% of CO2 emissions by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

The UK government is currently missing one of its core Net Zero commitments to reduce CO2 emissions by 101 years, according to the Public Building Energy Efficiency Report , prepared by network service providers Neos Networks. On average across England and Wales, CO2 emissions per m2 have fallen by 0.62% annually over the last 15 years.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The UK government announced backing for 11 new projects to produce green hydrogen from electrolysis, on 14 December, in addition to giving a tentative green light to hydrogen blending in existing gas distribution networks. InchDairnie Distillery in Scotland, who plan to run a boiler on 100% hydrogen for use in their distilling process.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

Speaking of the launch, Orbital’s CEO, Andrew Scott, said: “This is a huge milestone for Orbital; the O2 is a remarkable example of British cleantech innovation and the build we have completed here is an inspiring display of what a UK supply chain can achieve if given the opportunity – even under the extraordinary pressures of a pandemic.”.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

A Freedom of Information (FOI) investigation by Cycling UK of all NHS ambulance trusts in England, Scotland and Wales found that none of them were opposed to the new pop-up cycleways installed during the COVID-19 lockdown last year.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The fluid used in the system is 2½ times denser than water (similar in viscosity to cream) and is therefore able to provide 2½ times the power and 2½ times the energy when compared to conventional low-density hydro-power systems that rely on water and operate in the Scottish Highlands, Wales and across Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) has launched its first ‘Call for Innovation’ to businesses across the UK, in a bid to find a new low carbon alternative to backup diesel generators. Backup generators are used at over 250 NGET sites across England and Wales, the majority of which are diesel powered.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A common misunderstanding over water fittings regulations in the UK is creating confusion over clean water equipment compliance and specification, and could be a barrier to innovation, says Paul Carrington, managing director, Aquacheck Engineering. The other two are NSFreg4 and the Kiwa UK Regulation 4 Product Approval Scheme (KUKreg4).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Targeting 1GW of locally-owned clean power generation capacity by 2030, the new state-owned firm will be tasked with scaling up renewable energy across Wales, initially through the development of onshore wind projects on the Welsh Government's woodland estate, it said. We will set up a publicly-owned renewable energy developer.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The scale of the project means it has the potential to substantially decarbonise the UK’s industrial emissions, significantly supporting UK Government ambitions to capture and store 20–30 MtCO2 per year by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Northern Gas Networks is leading the project with partners Cadent, Scottish Gas Networks, Wales & West Utilities, National Grid, DNV GL and the Health and Safety Executive’s science division. A growing library of studies and reports conclude that all viable scenarios for the UK to hit net-zero include hydrogen as a vital component.

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TechXplore

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This follows the UK government's commitment in September to invest up to £500 million towards an electric arc furnace at Tata Steel's Port Talbot plant in south Wales. In a move to embrace sustainable steelmaking, British Steel has unveiled a £1.25

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The governments of the UK and Germany have signed a new agreement they say will help accelerate the development of an international hydrogen industry – with the two countries at the cutting edge of its development. The partnership follows investment by both countries in the development of hydrogen as an alternative fuel.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 9, 2024

The groundbreaking new hydro project from family-owned self-drive plant hire company Buckland Newton Hire (BNH) saw Apex Dynamics UK supply the inline planetary gearbox used to control the waterwheel. in diameter, overtaking one at a National Trust site in Port Talbot, Wales.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2023

The reports are from the final stage of the UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) Chemicals Investigation Programme (CIP3) are now available to view and download. CIP is the UK water industry’s response to current and emerging legislation on trace substances in the water environment. This resulted in over 60,000 samples being analysed.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

The work will examine the business case for continuing development and support of the NFD, which benchmarks failure rates for water distribution mains and sewers in the UK and Ireland. The database has facilitated collaborative research in the UK and internationally, as well as driving in-house data quality improvements.

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Renew Economy

JUNE 27, 2022

Quinbrook to build 460MWh big battery in south Wales as part of plans to transform old coal fired power plant into a sustainable energy park. The post Quinbrook to build one of UK’s biggest batteries at site of old coal power station appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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