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  • Yorkshire Water fined £350,000 for polluting watercourse

    Yorkshire Water fined £350,000 for polluting watercourse Aug 22, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Markets Finance 0 Image: Thinkstock / ELN Yorkshire Water has been ordered to pay a £350,000 fine for polluting a watercourse. The firm was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to an environmental permitting offence relating to a pollution incident from a sewer overflow […]

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  • Oil and Gas Authority awards £200k for exploration

    Oil and Gas Authority awards £200k for exploration Aug 22, 2016 Priyanka Shrestha Coal, Gas Oil 0 Image: Thinkstock The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded more than £200,000 to boost further interest in offshore exploration activity in the UK Continental Shelf. It is the final stage of its exploration licence competition which was […]

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  • AD plant in Nottinghamshire gets £13m investment

    AD plant in Nottinghamshire gets £13m investment Aug 21, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Infrastructure Generation, Low Carbon, Top Stories 0 Image: Thinkstock An anaerobic digestion plant to be built in Nottinghamshire has secured an investment worth £13 million. The new facility, which is expected to have a capacity of 2.2MW, will power a combined heat and power […]

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  • ESOS absentees investigated

    ESOS absentees investigated Aug 19, 2016 Jonny Bairstow Energy Efficiency, Policy Legislation, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock The Environment Agency is investigating companies it thinks may have dodged the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS). ESOS is a mandatory scheme that all large businesses in the UK have to be a part of. It requires them to undertake […]

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  • Australia officially blocks energy grid sale to Chinese companies

    Australia officially blocks energy grid sale to Chinese companies Aug 19, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Markets Finance 0 Image: Thinkstock Australia has officially blocked the sale of its biggest energy grid to two Chinesse companies. The government has rejected the bid by firms State Grid Corp and Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings over security concerns. The decision […]

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  • More than half of Europeans want EU to do more for the environment

    More than half of Europeans want EU to do more for the environment Aug 20, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Sustainability Environment, Top Stories 0 Image: Thinkstock More than half of Europeans want the EU to do more for the environment. That’s according to a survey by the European Parliament which asked more than 27,900 people across […]

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  • Households who haven’t switched in more than a decade overpaid £3,000

    Households who haven’t switched in more than a decade overpaid £3,000 Aug 19, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Markets Finance, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock Households who have remained with the same energy supplier for more than 15 years have paid around £3,000 more on their energy bills. That’s £300 more per year, according to a survey by Energy […]

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  • Latest jobs – Commercial Energy Analyst – McLean Ross

    Latest jobs – Commercial Energy Analyst – McLean Ross Aug 19, 2016 Geoff Curran Latest Jobs 0 Commercial Energy Analyst – £40,000 – £50,000 London/Cambridge Our client is an ambitious new technology company that believes in a future where the flexibility from all Distributed Energy Resources (“DERs”) is used to shape the pattern of demand. […]

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  • Installation of ECO measures decreased by 15% in June

    Installation of ECO measures decreased by 15% in June Aug 18, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Energy Efficiency, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock More than 33,600 energy efficiency measures under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) programme were installed in June. That’s a 15% decrease compared to May, new data from BEIS has revealed. Of all the measures […]

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  • UK Governments ‘failed to deliver affordable energy’

    UK Governments ‘failed to deliver affordable energy’ Aug 18, 2016 Jacqueline Echevarria Infrastructure Generation, Policy Legislation, Top Stories 0 Image: Shutterstock UK businesses believe governments have failed to deliver secure and affordable energy. A survey by the Institute of Directors (IoD) asked 1,000 business leaders their thoughts on the governments’ performance from 2002 onwards, in […]

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