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How can manufacturers invest in innovation for net-zero?
…2035 without the use of offsetting. It is kitted out with an anaerobic digester to transform potato peelings into fertiliser; heat and water recycling systems and energy-efficient equipment. Rooftop solar…
Net-Zero Awards: Shortlist of finalists revealed
…Year Planet Mark Proxima AtkinsRéalis South Pole The AHSN Network thinkBeyond Useful Projects Verco Energy Efficiency Project of the Year Chivas Brothers – Heat Recovery Technology for Energy and Carbon…
Chris Skidmore requests emergency debate on North Sea oil and gas as criticism for Sunak rolls in
…is the wrong decision at precisely the wrong time, when the rest of the world is experiencing record heatwaves. “It is on the wrong side of a future economy that…
Majority of critical minerals face heightened climate risks by 2050, study finds
This is according to a new report from PwC, which analysed nine commodities across critical minerals such as copper, cobalt and lithium; key crops such as wheat, rice and maize;…
CBI to Government: Fast-track green industrial strategy or squander £57bn
…clarity on the phase-out of gas heating in homes, given that current policies are not sufficient to accelerate heat pump deployment in line with Government targets – and given that…
Mahatma Gandhi University: Cooling paint pilot to combat heatwaves
…need for heat mitigation solutions and reduce energy-dependent cooling systems When: Laboratory tests started in the UK in 2022 The Challenge Rising global temperatures and extreme heatwaves have become critical…
CCC: Sunak’s green policy rollbacks mean UK is less likely to reach net-zero
…the changes made regarding home heating and building energy efficiency will carry more risk in terms of their ability to undermine the delivery of the UK’s legally binding carbon budgets…
‘This is possible’: IEA calls for faster growth on international clean energy
The IEA’s Tracking Clean Energy Progress online resource has been published this week, assessing more than 50 different components – from EVs and renewables to buildings and heat pumps –…
Sunak rolls back EV and home heating policies, citing cost-of-living crisis
…heat pumps. To help address this concern, Sunak increased the maximum amount any home can claim through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme by 50%, to £7,500. Proposals for new energy efficiency…
Nature in boardrooms and British homes with no energy bills:The sustainability success stories of the week
…efficient and removed from the gas grid thanks to electric cooking systems and air-source heat pumps (pictured above). They will also have rooftop solar panels and a battery for storing…
Green skills: Businesses take matters into their own hands in absence of national strategy
…the report, which sets out the potential for job creation and levelling up in growing sectors such as electric heating, energy storage, hydrogen and renewable electricity. A key call to…
Chivas brothers reveals £60m green investment plans
…Heat recovery technologies Last month, the company made its knowledge regarding heat recovery technologies, such as Mechanical Vapour Recompression (MVR) and Thermo Vapour Recompression (TVR), available to the industry as…
PepsiCo outlines plans to deliver its first net-zero plant
…The Business Guide to Net-Zero Heating With heating across the domestic, commercial and public sector buildings accounting for nearly half of the energy used in the UK, there is much…
UK’s new climate adaptation plan ‘too tentative’, experts warn
…aspects of the Plan. He said: “We warned the Government that more needed to be done to prepare for heatwaves back in 2018. The UK’s highest-ever summer temperature record has…
Hydrogen levy on British homes officially axed
…necessary to “put fairness at the heat of plans to drive forward low-carbon hydrogen, which will boost energy security and help lower bills in the long-term”. This has been cause…
Report: UK falling behind in global low-carbon hydrogen race
…networks, it is pushing for the Government to make an early decision on the role of hydrogen in home heating before its stated timeline of 2026. It believes a decision…
IEA: Solar and storage manufacturing boom to push world toward net-zero
…report covers planned and announced manufacturing projects for solar PV, wind power, batteries, heat pumps and electrolysers. It found that if all the projects to date were deployed, the output…
Global solar investments outpace oil and gas for first time
…on clean energy technologies – including renewables, electric vehicles (EVs), nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements and heat pumps. During this time global investments into solar look set…
World set to add ‘record-breaking’ levels of renewables this year
…which more than $1.7trn will be spent on clean energy technologies – including renewables, electric vehicles (EVs), nuclear power, grids, storage, low-emissions fuels, efficiency improvements and heat pumps. The IEA…
Report: Wasted wind power costing Britain £1.5bn
…based on statistics from the industry regulator the North Sea Transition Authority (NTSA), also found that installing electric heat pumps in all new homes built from now to 2030 would…
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