16th December 2019 | Commercial Energy
Drivers of electric vehicles will increasingly be able, not only to charge their card for free, but will be paid for doing so because of the UK’s increasing reliance on wind power, according to Ohme, a pioneering electric vehicle charging manufacturer. Windy weather conditions meant that the UK’s windfarms generated a record 16GW or 45%…Read more
12th December 2019 | Commercial Energy
Google will enable more than 100 global areas across to access a digital tool which helps towns and cities to measure and reduce their carbon footprint, including major UK cities. The tech giant is currently working to expand access to its Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) – a digital tool which uses big data to help…Read more
10th December 2019 | Recycling
It is a year since the Government launched its Resources & Waste Strategy. Rightly hailed as a bold and ambitious document, the Strategy acknowledged for the first time the limitations of our current linear waste system before making a business and environmental case for a transition to a more circular economy. Few can dispute the…Read more
10th December 2019 | Commercial Energy
Drax has announced plans to become the first “carbon negative” company through its use of carbon capture and storage technologies. The firm has long been associated with ways to reduce the carbon output of electricity facilities using more traditional fuels as opposed to renewables. Earlier this year Drax Power Station in Yorkshire became the first…Read more
9th December 2019 | Commercial Energy
This weekend’s windy weather set a new renewable power record – and saw some households paid to charge their electric cars to help balance the grid. Wind farms generated more than 16 gigawatts of power – five times the output expected from the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant – in Britain for the…Read more