24th February 2020 | Recycling
Making electric scooters legal in the UK could hasten a waste crisis which threatens to create a “mountain” of discarded batteries, experts have suggested. Currently the use of electric scooters is illegal in the UK but the Government is set to begin the process of legalising the vehicles later this month. Already, researchers have warned…Read more
21st February 2020 | Commercial Energy
Drax Power Station in Selby, North Yorkshire, will cease using coal to generate electricity in March 2021, ahead of the government’s 2025 deadline. The site first started generating electricity using coal in the 1970’s and once the second half of the power station was built in the 1980’s, it became the largest power station in…Read more
21st February 2020 | Commercial Energy
Oil and gas giant Shell has plans for a 100-megawatt grid storage battery in the west of England. It is slated to be the biggest battery in Europe once it is completed later this year and will be crucial to the UK’s quest to remain the continent’s top wind power player. The battery project in…Read more
17th February 2020 | Commercial Energy
The UK’s sharp decline in coal use is largely down to the coal carbon tax, according to researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Cambridge. British electricity generated from coal fell from 13.1 TWh (terawatt hours) in 2013, to 0.97 in 2019, and in June last year, (2019), the UK went without…Read more
17th February 2020 | Residential Energy
ScottishPower has committed to ensuring all its new domestic fixed price tariffs will be supplied by 100% green electricity, generated by the company’s own UK wind farms. According to ScottishPower energy generated by all of its wind farms across the UK will only be sold to domestic and commercial customers. ScottishPower will reinvest money made…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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