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Jan 11, 2017
First African grid-connected biogas-powered electricity plant comes online in Kenya
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Jan 12, 2017
Renewable fuels will play a critical role in decarbonising the transport sector, and will complement the role of electric vehicles, Transport Minister John Hayes has said
The UK’s Department for Transport will spend £20 million on supporting twenty innovative low-carbon projects.
Speaking at a road transport conference in London, Transport Minister John Hayes... [Read More]
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Jan 12, 2017
Consumer goods giant Unilever has announced a contract to use biomethane at five of its sites in the UK and Ireland.
Unilever UK & Ireland has signed a deal with a renewable energy company GENeco, which means that from 1 January 2017, its offices in Leatherhead and 100 Victoria Embankment, and its food and drink factories in Norwich, Trafford Park and Cork, will... [Read More]
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Jan 18, 2017
The UK’s renewable energy and clean technology industry is urging Prime Minister Theresa May to embrace the “huge industrial opportunity” that moving to a low-carbon society presents.
The call comes in the aftermath of May’s speech outlining her government’s priorities for Brexit, which included leaving the European single market.
Nina Skorupska,... [Read More]
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Jan 12, 2017
Veolia’s 8MW Battlefield Energy Recovery Facility in Shropshire, UK, has been officially opened by Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal.
The site, located in Shrewsbury and developed by Veolia on behalf of Shropshire Council, has been built to help transform the area’s residents’ residual waste into a resource.
The facility processes 90,000 tonnes of... [Read More]
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Jan 12, 2017
Manchester airport has become the first carbon neutral airport in the UK in the aftermath of a decade-long investment effort into energy efficiency and green technologies.
The more than £7.5 million (€8.6m) investment campaign saw the installation of more than 25,000 low energy LED lights throughout the airport, including the first on any UK runway, and saving... [Read More]
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Jan 23, 2017
UK-based Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has secured funding of £896,000 (€1m) for state of the art equipment to be installed within the industrial biotechnology and biorefinery facilities at Wilton, UK.
The targeted investment of £538K from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) is matched with £358K of UK Catapult funding to stimulate... [Read More]
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Jan 12, 2017
Global clean energy investment fell by 18% to $287.5 billion (€269.7bn) in 2016, dragged down by sharp falls in equipment prices and slowdown in key Asian markets.
According to a new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), Chinese investment totalled at $87.8 billion, down 26% from the 2015 record high of $119.1 billion, while Japan invested a meagre $22.8... [Read More]
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Jan 13, 2017
US President Barack Obama has urged the US to take bolder action in tackling climate change in his last presidential speech.
In his farewell address, delivered on 10 January in Chicago, Obama said: “We’ve led the world to an agreement that has the promise to save this planet. But without bolder action, our children won’t have time to... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
Recycling and waste management company Veolia UK has acquired Cynergin – an energy services company and Energy Performance Contract (EPC) specialist.
Over recent years Cynergin has enjoyed notable success in a number of high profile Hospital Trust and public building energy projects, such as the Yeovil and Warrington & Halton Hospital Trusts and Somerset House... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
Roberto Rinaldi FRSC, a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to fund his world-leading work on lignin valorisation.
According to Imperial College, these highly competitive grants are awarded to “outstanding early career researchers” to help... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
UK wood fuel supplier Forest Fuels has opened a new wood pellet depot at Garston, Liverpool, in a bid to increase its financial investment in the region.
The ready availability of wood pellets for biomass boilers in the North West of England has been boosted with the arrival of Forest Fuels to its new facility in Liverpool, according to the company.
The... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
French firm Suez Environnement has announced a strategic partnership with a cloud-based waste and recycling company, Rubicon Global, to advance the digitalisation of its recycling and recovery activities on mainland Europe.
The partnership was announced following Suez acquisition of a stake in Rubicon after it led the company’s latest funding round, which raised... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
An anaerobic digestion (AD) plant is being blamed for killing more than 1,000 fish in Wales, UK, according to media reports.
According to a report in UK newspaper The Mail on Sunday, officials are investigating if a fault caused hundreds of thousands of gallons of toxic waste to be discharged from an AD plant and into the River Teifi in West Wales, killing every single... [Read More]
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Jan 16, 2017
Laos is looking to expand its power grid network and may use renewable energy to produce electricity, according to Xinhua News.
The Laos government plans to install 54 more electricity transmission lines and build another 16 substations by 2020.
Laos Minister of Energy and Mines Khammany Inthirath has revealed the plan recently, saying the government recognises the need... [Read More]
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Indonesian gas distributor PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN) has signed an agreement with NeutraDC Singapore (NDSG) to provide biomethane for forthcoming data centre projects in Singapore
Once cleared, the site will be redeveloped into an Energy, Biochar and Carbon (EBAC) plant – a pyrolysis facility designed to convert plant matter into biochar, renewable electricity and heat
Swedish tanker owner Furetank has announced it will run its European fleet on renewable biogas throughout 2025, marking a major step towards fossil-free shipping
