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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.
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.
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.
The Renewable Energy Association (REA) has today questioned whether new Government guidance designed to help regional authorities assess their areas’ potential for renewable and low carbon energy, will do anything to help regions meet their renewable energy targets.
Environmental consultancy RSK Group has launched a graduate training scheme to attract new talent to the company and improve skills in a sector that is expected to help create the green jobs of the future.
Businesses are being invited to bid to share in a £5 million capital grant programme for developing plastics recycling facilities in Scotland.
Global engineering company Siemens has invested in the British company behind the world’s first single commercial-scale tidal stream turbine, providing a boost to the UK’s emerging marine energy sector.
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.
Glastonbury Festival plans to further enhance its green credentials this year with a range of environmental improvements, including a £500,000 investment in a second water reservoir, the installation of 1,100 solar panels and more localised sewage disposal.
An everyday grass has been identified as the best candidate for generating green energy from UK brownfield and polluted sites.