23rd January 2020 | Commercial Energy
A Government-backed taskforce bringing together key players in the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors says it has demonstrated that an effectively managed integration of electric vehicles with the energy system can significantly improve electricity network efficiency, increase system resilience and limit the requirement to build costly new infrastructure to meet growing electricity demand. The Electric…Read more
22nd January 2020 | Commercial Energy
From health workers to engineers and teenagers to grandparents, 110 Britons will join a citizens’ assembly on climate change this weekend to discuss how the country can reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Britain became the first major economy to enshrine a net zero target into law last year – a move…Read more
20th January 2020 | Recycling
Malaysia is returning 42 shipping containers of illegally imported plastic waste to the UK, its environment minister has announced. Yeo Bee Yin said Malaysia would take “steps to ensure” the country “does not become the garbage dump of the world.” She added Malaysia had sent back 150 containers to their country of origin. The UK…Read more
18th January 2020 | Recycling
It is “impossible” to recycle household rubbish in London because of a “postcode lottery”, the Green Party has said. The capital’s 32 borough councils were asked for their policies on recycling seven items, including a plastic bucket, crisp packet, ballpoint pen and a bicycle tyre. None could recycle all seven items. The London Assembly Green…Read more
17th January 2020 | Residential Energy
GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has been awarded a multi-million dollar project for the design, supply, construction and commissioning of onshore and offshore wind substations for the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm. The offshore wind farm is located 12 miles off the Fife coast in Scotland and the projects is jointly owned…Read more
