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OWGP Announces £2m Support Package for UK Offshore Wind Supply Chain

The Offshore Wind Growth Partnership (OWGP) is launching a new £2m package of funding and business support activities for the UK offshore wind supply chain.

22 Jul 2020

Oil & Gas Technology Centre and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Create Alliance to Fast-track Energy Transition

Two leading energy technology and innovation organisations have today {22nd July, 2020} announced a five-year collaboration to deliver next generation energy technologies and accelerate the United Kingdom’s transition to a net zero future.

22 Jul 2020

New Framework Will Help to Make ‘Net Zero’ a Reality

A new framework developed by the University of Stirling will enable policymakers and businesses to meet ambitious targets for a low-carbon future by helping to balance the demands of economic growth, environmental sustainability and social inclusion.

21 Jul 2020

Yorkshire Clean Energy Business Scoops Prestigious Institute of Physics Award

FeTu, an Elland-based firm whose pioneering green-energy device has global potential to slash CO2 emissions by converting waste heat into electricity, has been awarded the prestigious Institute of Physics (IOP) Business Start-up Award for its ground-breaking technology.

From FeTu Limited 21 Jul 2020

Green Light for GreenGo Lidars in Italy for Wind Projects

Italian renewables consultancy Studio Rinnovabili delivers ZX Lidars to wind farm developer for wind resource campaigns in the South of Italy

From ZX Lidars 21 Jul 2020

New Solar Energy Optics Technology Transforms Solar Industry Economics

The Solar Energy Optics film solution developed by ICS is one of the key outcomes from comprehensive industrial research and development around light guide technology.

From ICS Intelligent Control Systems 21 Jul 2020

Federal Program to Plug Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Could Create Jobs, Reduce Pollution

New research released by Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and Resources for the Future examines the environmental and job creation benefits of plugging orphaned and abandoned oil and gas wells.

21 Jul 2020

Priming Effect can Emit 40 Billion Tons of Carbon from Permafrost by 2100

A key uncertainty in climate projections is the amount of carbon emitted by thawing permafrost in the Arctic.

21 Jul 2020

Relationship Between Humanity and Ocean can Promote Sustainable Ocean Governance

A new relationship between humanity and the ocean is required to secure the continuity of the diverse life support roles provided by the sea, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on 17 July 2020.

21 Jul 2020

Fish Fillets Exposed to Microplastic Pollution are Still Safe for Human Consumption

In a new laboratory study, experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research investigated how many microplastic particles would be absorbed in the muscle tissue of young European sea bass after being given feed with extremely high microplastic particle content for a period of four months.

21 Jul 2020

New Technology can Store Surplus Green Energy in Water

With a grant of almost DKK 5 million from the Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme, EUDP, under Danish Energy Agency, work is about to begin on building a 100 sqm test facility to demonstrate new technology that stores green surplus energy in giant underground water balloons.

21 Jul 2020

Climate Scientists Downplay Role of Indigenous People in Their Zeal to Promote Climate Change

In their zeal to promote the importance of climate change as an ecological driver, climate scientists increasingly are ignoring the profound role that indigenous peoples played in fire and vegetation dynamics, not only in the eastern United States but worldwide, according to a Penn State researcher.

21 Jul 2020