It’s time to turn up the heat on UK renewables

13th June 2018 | Commercial Energy

The EU is on track to meet the original 20% renewables shared target set in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. But there are significant discrepancies between the countries, each making progress from a different base. In the UK, while there’s been remarkable progress in some areas, we are far behind many EU countries, 11…Read more

Scotland outpaces rest of UK in carbon reduction, halving emissions since 1990

12th June 2018 | Commercial Energy

Scotland has met its statutory annual climate change target for the third consecutive year, achieving a 49% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions against a 1990 baseline. The latest Scottish Government figures, released on Tuesday (12 June), show that the country surpassed its 2016 Climate Change Act goal of emitting less than 44.9 MtCO2e in 2016,…Read more

No Brexit for energy as UK set to draw more power from EU

11th June 2018 | Commercial Energy

As the UK government works to exit the European Union, the nation’s electric utilities are working to get closer. Power already flows between the UK, France and Ireland and Northern Ireland through four interconnector cables, and work is under way to more than quadruple the capacity of those links. The cables will establish a stronger…Read more

Drax to convert coal-fired power generating unit to run on biomass

8th June 2018 | Commercial Energy

On 6 June 2018, Drax power Station in North Yorkshire made the decision to take its fourth coal-fired power generating unit offline as past of a planned outage programme as it prepares to convert it to run on sustainable biomass. Once the upgrade is complete, two-thirds of the power station’s capacity will produce renewable power….Read more

UK and EU must act to ensure continued trade of RDF, says industry group

7th June 2018 | Recycling

The Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Industry Group has called for urgent action from the UK Government and the EU to ensure that the export of RDF from the UK to Europe will continue unhindered after Brexit. The RDF Industry Group, whose members are drawn from across the RDF supply chain, details the arguments for RDF…Read more

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Since then we have worked with FTSE 100 companies, one-man bands, across all categories.
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