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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.
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.
A UK company that has found a way to store the energy from intermittent renewables, such as wind and solar, and turn them into hydrogen, is to test its off grid clean fuel technology in a Dutch-designed floating office, with the aim of delivering a world first in sustainable, zero carbon building solutions.
A low carbon technology that waterproofs, strengthens and extends the life of softwood by up to 50 years has been shown in trials to be able to turn MDF into a product for outdoor use that could revolutionise the use of the wood composite.
Two British clean technology firms have joined forces to deliver commercially viable, large-scale ‘carbon-negative’ buildings.
A new insulation product made from sustainably sourced hemp is offering a renewable and low carbon alternative to synthetic equivalents.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced 80 new initiatives under its ‘Plan A’ eco programme and committed to begin implementing them within the next five years.
The effectiveness of a range innovative new low carbon technologies, many of which have been developed by SMEs, are to be tested in 87 social housing projects across the UK, with the aim of making them carbon neutral.
An everyday grass has been identified as the best candidate for generating green energy from UK brownfield and polluted sites.