22nd October 2019 | Residential Energy
SSE Energy Services has launched a new tariff for electric vehicle (EV) owners, giving them up to 2,000 kwh of free electricity a year when they charge their car overnight at home. They say people who sign up to the 1 Year Fix and Drive tariff will be able to benefit from 8,000 miles free…Read more
21st October 2019 | Residential Energy
Climate change activists are saying that we should stop using gas to heat our homes – in order to reduce our CO2 emissions. The goal is a good one, but the proposed remedy is absolutely not. If the alternative is to heat using electricity, then switching is exactly the wrong thing to do in current…Read more
21st October 2019 | Commercial Energy
A system that stores excess renewable energy in weights suspended above disused mineshafts could be cheaper than batteries according to a report by independent analysts at Imperial College London. The proposed system received a 650,000 grant from Innovate UK last year, and patent owner Gravitricity has teamed up with Dutch winch specialist Huisman to build…Read more
18th October 2019 | Recycling
Halloween costumes sold by UK retailers are set to generate more than 2,000 tonnes of plastic waste, equivalent by weight to 83 million bottles, according to new research from environmental charity Hubbub. Research from Hubbub and the family nature charity Fairyland Trust found that Halloween costumers sold by 19 retailers, including Argos, Tesco and Sainsbury’s…Read more
17th October 2019 | Recycling
Global bottled water giants are ramping up trials of easily recyclable aluminium cans to replace plastic that pollutes the world’s seas. Sound like a slam-dunk for the environment? Not entirely. Aluminium cans might indeed mean less ocean waste, but they come with their own eco-price: the production of each can pumps about twice as much…Read more
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