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  • More cash to boost energy efficiency in London

    More cash to boost energy efficiency in London Sep 01, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Energy Efficiency, Markets Finance 0 A new round of funding worth nearly £11.5 million to expand a programme that makes homes and public buildings in London more efficient has been announced. The cash will be used to install energy-saving measures across the […]

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  • The Daily Market Report – 1st September 2014

    The Daily Market Report – 1st September 2014 Sep 01, 2014 Amber Smith Market Report 0 Find out what’s influencing gas supply, power prices and what you should watch out for in the new daily market report on the energy market from Steven Walker, Client Portfolio Manager on the Optimisation Desk at npower. Market, npower, […]

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  • GDF Suez wins £90m for UK wind, sells 50% share

    GDF Suez wins £90m for UK wind, sells 50% share Aug 31, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Markets Finance, Sustainability Environment 0 French power producer GDF Suez has raised £90 million for its UK wind assets and also sold half its share from its portfolio. The company won a 14-year financing from Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubihi UFJ, Sumitomo […]

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  • Shopping vouchers for householders who recycle

    Shopping vouchers for householders who recycle Aug 31, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Markets Finance, Sustainability Environment 0 Householders in England are to receive shopping vouchers and loyalty rewards for recycling, thanks to a £5 million fund. It is intended to increase recycling rates and encourage more councils to switch back from fortnightly to weekly bin collections. […]

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  • Siemens suspends work on tidal array in Wales

    Siemens suspends work on tidal array in Wales Aug 30, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure Generation, Sustainability Environment 0 Siemens has suspended work on its 10MW tidal array project in Wales. The news comes after the UK Government withdrew a £10 million grant pledged to the company’s subsidiary Marine Current Turbines (MCT) earlier this year. This […]

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  • Bike-mad actors bag green Edinburgh award

    Bike-mad actors bag green Edinburgh award Aug 30, 2014 Vicky Ellis Sustainability Environment 0 Theatre company Peculius took their HandleBards’ show around the country. Image: Handlebards An acting troupe has just won a round of green applause – for cycling 2,000 miles between theatres. Four performers in The HandleBards bagged the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable […]

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  • Norwegian oil industry ‘hit by cyber attack’

    Norwegian oil industry ‘hit by cyber attack’ Aug 29, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Coal, Gas Oil 0 At least 50 companies in Norway’s oil and gas industry have been hacked, reports claim. A further 250 firms have also been warned by the nation’s prevention unit for cyber attack – National Security Authority (NSM) – as it […]

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  • Chile officially opens its largest wind farm

    Chile officially opens its largest wind farm Aug 29, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure Generation, Sustainability Environment 0 Copyright: Pattern Energy Chile has officially opened its largest ever wind farm which has a total capacity of 115MW. The El Arrayan facility, located around 400 kilometres north of Santiago on the coast of Chile, will generate enough […]

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  • £7.5m to expand Scotland’s tidal energy project

    £7.5m to expand Scotland’s tidal energy project Aug 28, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure Generation, Markets Finance 0 Copyright: MeyGen The developer of the world’s largest tidal array project in Scotland has secured another £7.5 million. Atlantis Resources has been awarded a two-year contract by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) for a multi-turbine foundation structure that […]

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  • Waste firm to turn rubbish dumps into solar farms

    Waste firm to turn rubbish dumps into solar farms Aug 28, 2014 Priyanka Shrestha Infrastructure Generation, Sustainability Environment 0 Recycling and waste management firm SITA UK has teamed up with British Solar Renewables (BSR) to turn a number of landfill sites into solar farms. BSR will help assess and shortlist the landfill locations it considers […]

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