Tory leader David Cameron has today set out how his party will tackle the UK’s looming energy crisis and build a sustainable energy system for the future, if it is elected, including overhauling the UK carbon tax system to create a floor price for carbon and to encourage investment in low carbon energy projects.
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has launched three major research projects, worth £4.5 million, to help prepare the ground for a self-sustaining mass market for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles.
Northwest micro-enterprises and social enterprises are being invited to apply for funding from a new £4 million rural carbon grant project for the region.
The UK’s beleaguered car manufacturing industry got a much needed shot in the arm today as two car giants – Nissan and Ford –confirmed nearly £2 billion worth of new investment into the production and R&D of electric and low carbon vehicles at sites across England and Wales.
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A new Government report is calling on UK companies to rethink their attitude to waste management and recognise the business opportunities opening up in the growing waste and recycling sector.
The Government has named Yorkshire and Humber as the UK’s first low carbon economic area (LCEA) for carbon capture and storage (CCS) and has awarded £6.3 million to a five megawatt (MW) CCS project at Ferrybridge in Yorkshire.
A day after the Government launched its Marine Energy Action Plan, setting out a roadmap for driving the marine energy sector forward, the Crown Estate has announced an unprecedented 1.2 gigawatts (GW) of wave and tidal energy project leases.
A consortium of British businesses has netted £7 million of Government funding to develop a technology that could see mini refineries sited near landfill sites up and down the country producing cheap, carbon efficient biofuel for transport from waste.
Energy companies E.ON and ScottishPower have been awarded a share of £90 million worth of Government funding to compete to build the first commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant in the UK.
East of England businesses will for the first time have the opportunity to have their food waste turned into bio energy to heat homes and power cars thanks to a new anaerobic digestion facility set to be built in Suffolk.
Sainsbury’s has, this week, launched two initiatives – one involving bees, another involving scientists – in a bid to find solutions to environmental challenges facing the supermarket, its farmers and customers.
The John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose supermarkets and John Lewis department stores, is to open its first ‘off grid’ retail store, probably before the end of the year.
A report published today argues that the Government’s strategy on fuel poverty is now out of date and that it should focus its efforts on increasing energy efficiency in UK homes to tackle the problem going forward.
Proposals for a high speed rail network announced yesterday by Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis, have received a mixed reaction from business leaders and environmental campaign groups.