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Social housing giant and low carbon retrofit firm Connaught, was facing collapse as it called in the administrators late on Tuesday.
A pioneering underwater marine energy device seven years in the making has been successfully deployed on the seabed off the Coast of Cornwall.
Germany could derive all of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2050 and become the world's first major industrial nation to kick the fossil-fuel habit, the country's Federal Environment Agency said today.
The renewable energy industry has welcomed the decision by the Government to let local councils sell green electricity to the grid.
The Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), which have been responsible for delivering climate change targets across England are to scrapped, it has emerged.
A Wiltshire-based service provider of environmentally friendly water dispensers is proving that green credentials can be good for business in tough economic times.
UK green energy company Ecotricity is set for rapid expansion following planning permission for it to build an £8 million eco-headquarters in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
The Government has announced it is to support marine renewables businesses in the South West through a £5 million grant.
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.
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.
The Government tried to boost the development of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in the UK this week, as it named Wales as one of its flagship Low Carbon Economic Areas (LCEA) for developing alternative fuels, including hydrogen from renewable sources.
A Bath-based fine wine retailer and importer has been ordered to pay charges of more than £35,000 in fines and costs for not recycling its waste packaging.
Local protestors to a nine turbine wind farm in Den Brook, Devon, had their objections overturned this week after permission was granted to global renewable energy company, Renewable Energy Systems (RES), after five years in planning.
Environmental management and compliance outfit, Envos, is expanding with the opening of a new consultancy in Gloucestershire.
Long-awaited construction work is set to get underway next week on Wave Hub, an underwater 'electrical socket' set to become the world's
largest wave energy farm and the cornerstone of the South West's marine energy vision.