22nd May 2018 | Commercial Energy
Environmentalists have slammed Government calls to explore and support the development of shale gas extraction after blasting it an “outright assault on local communities.” Backing the move, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Greg Clark said he wanted to speed up what he called “disappointingly slow” planning applications through proposals to implement…Read more
21st May 2018 | Commercial Energy
Drax power station, in North Yorkshire, produces 7% of the UK’s electricity and 65% of its output is through burning biomass. The firm announced on Monday that it has joined with Leeds-based project C-Capture in what it says could be the first of several pilot projects aimed at delivering “a rapid, lower cost demonstration of…Read more
20th May 2018 | Recycling
Firms who package goods in unrecyclable plastic will be hit with massive costs under plans to drive its used “out of existence”, The Independent can reveal. Whitehall insiders believe the proposal – effectively a tax on non-reusable plastic – will have a greater impact on the government’s drive to abolish all plastic waste by 2042…Read more
18th May 2018 | Commercial Energy
How are we going to reduce emissions from aluminium and steel? Can we go plastic free, and reduce waste? And, how will we sustainably re-fashion the industry? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories No Electricity? No Problem! UK hopes to solve diesel train problem with hydrogen – Hydrogen could help the…Read more
17th May 2018 | Commercial Energy
National Grid is one of those businesses that everyone assumes is quintessentially British. Today’s full year results, though, highlight that it is increasingly a Transatlantic company. Operating profits from its US operations were £1.7bn, the same as they were from the Grid’s better-known – at least to UK consumers – UK electricity transmission business, although…Read more
