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OVO Energy and Sunamp hot up with £1.6m of funding
OVO Energy and Sunamp have been awarded £1.6 million of funding from the UK Government to develop a collaborative zero carbon heating project. The firms have combined OVO Energy’s VCharge energy management platform with Sunamp’s UniQ Heat Batteries to make domestic heating cheaper, cleaner and smarter. The project will allow domestic customers to heat their […]
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Global coal generation ‘plunging into death spiral’
Global coal generation is plunging into a ‘death spiral’. That’s the verdict from environmental think-tank Carbon Tracker, which has published a new report suggesting 42% of the world’s operating coal fleets are already unprofitable due to high fuel costs. It expects a combination of renewable energy costs, air pollution regulation and carbon pricing to mean […]
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Budweiser brewer hops towards lager emissions reductions
The brewer of Budweiser in the UK has signed a deal to purchase 100% renewable electricity from solar business Lightsource. Through the 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA), AB InBev will receive 100MW of solar electricity, enough to power around 18,000 households across the country. It plans to be using the power to supply its two core breweries by 2020 […]
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ENGIE joins Energy Switch Guarantee scheme
ENGIE has joined up to the Energy Switch Guarantee, an industry initiative to make switching energy supplier simpler, faster and safer. The scheme aims to help consumers feel confident in switching – it requires signatories to report on their performance every quarter to show that they are compliant with the high standards of the guarantee. The […]
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Wood wins £52m Sellafield control systems contract
Energy services firm Wood has won a £52 million control systems contract at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria, UK. It will supply programmable digital control technologies over the course of a 10-year project, covering system and equipment design, manufacture and assembly, as well as obsolescence management and maintenance support. The firm says it aims to help […]
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Latest Jobs – Category Delivery Manager – London Energy Project
Closing date 14/01/2019 23:59:00 Reference 3490360 Job Type Contract Job Hours Full-time Industry Logistics, Procurement, Distribution and Supply Chain Location London Haringey Salary […]
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Graphene ‘could spark high-efficiency light-to-power conversion’
Graphene could spark high-efficiency light-to-power conversion. That’s the verdict from an international research team, co-led by the University of California, Riverside (UCR), which claims to have discovered a new mechanism for ultra-efficient charge generation and energy flow in graphene. The researchers shaped graphene with no impurities into different structures and found when light illuminated constricted areas, […]
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Could wrapping presents get us in a sticky situation?
Could wrapping presents put the environment in a sticky situation? UK waste collection firm Business Waste claims sales of sticky tape soar in the lead up to Christmas, with as many as six million rolls sold across the UK to help wrap the 1.1 billion presents bought each year. The firm says this is an issue […]
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Centrica unwraps 49MW fast-response battery ahead of Christmas
Centrica has unwrapped its new 49MW fast-response battery ahead of Christmas. The energy giant built the Roosecote battery on the site of a former coal-fired power station in Cumbria. It claims the facility is one of the largest battery storage units in Europe – it can come online in less than a second to meet […]
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Energy switching ‘on track to beat last year’s record’
Energy deal switching across the UK is on track to beat last year’s record. That’s according to Energy UK, which says nearly half a million customers switched electricity supplier in November, bringing the total number of switches to more than 5.4 million so far in 2018 – last year’s record figure was 5.5 million. The […]
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