14th December 2020 | Residential Energy
The UK Government has finally released its Energy White Paper, detailing steps to deliver “overwhelmingly decarbonised power in the 2030s”, with a new £6.7bn support scheme to be set up to tackle fuel poverty and a UK variant of the Emissions Trading Scheme to be introduced. The Energy White Paper has been delayed numerous times…Read more
11th December 2020 | Recycling
The role of energy storage and the part it will play in helping the UK reach its net-zero targets on carbon emissions by 2050 has been set out in a roadmap drawn up by researchers at the University of Birmingham. The Energy Storage Roadmap, launched at a webinar attended by industry, academic and policy experts,…Read more
9th December 2020 | Recycling
Data published by the Environment Agency on 1 December shows battery compliance schemes collected 4,839 tonnes of waste portable batteries in the third quarter of 2020. A total of 11,094 tonnes of waste portable batteries has been collected in 2020 so far, 69% of the target total of 16,088 tonnes. The UK target collection tonnage…Read more
8th December 2020 | Commercial Energy
Businesses signed up to WRAP’s UK Plastics Pact, which is supported by the likes of Unilever, Nestle and PepsiCo, collectively produced 40% fewer non-recyclable and unnecessary pieces of plastic packaging this year than in 2018. The progress has been revealed in WRAP’s second annual progress report on the Pact, published 8 December. More than 150…Read more
7th December 2020 | Commercial Energy
A new report by a UK trade association for the LPG industry has outlined how a green future for off-grid homes and businesses can be powered by household waste, wood biomass, and used cooking oil (UCO). The report by Liquid Gas UK (LGUK), developed independently by bioenergy experts NNFCC, outlines the possible supply chain routes…Read more
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