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Ultraviolet rig zaps water utility bug
Added: 20 Aug 2015
United Utilities has deployed ultraviolet rigs to help kill off the final traces of a bug affecting…

ScottishPower to close Longannet
Added: 19 Aug 2015
ScottishPower has announced plans to close its coal-fired Longannet Power Station in March next yea…

Shale firms offered exploration sites
Added: 19 Aug 2015
The Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) has announced 27 additional exploration sites where companies will be…

FSA funds food innovation
Added: 18 Aug 2015
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) is handing out new funding for research into a range of topics f…

Nuclear defueling nears completion
Added: 17 Aug 2015
Oldbury nuclear power station will be completely defueled by October, the site’s operators have sai…
UK trails in food waste study
Added: 14 Aug 2015
The UK has been named as the worst-performing region in a European study on food waste.
Fracking to be ‘fast-tracked’
Added: 13 Aug 2015
Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd and communities secretary Greg Clark have today anno…

Colleges axing STEM courses
Added: 12 Aug 2015
Science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) courses are being dropped by colleges in the UK, …

Wastewater process cleans up C02
Added: 12 Aug 2015
Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a wastewater treatment process that …

Honeywell updates Experion LX
Added: 11 Aug 2015
Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has rolled out an updated version of Experion LX, its distributed…

Women “put off” by STEM careers
Added: 11 Aug 2015
Research conducted for British Gas suggests women are overlooking science, technology, engineering …
UK pharma boasts export boom
Added: 10 Aug 2015
The UK pharmaceuticals industry has continued to exhibit solid export growth this year, a new surve…

Graphene given recycling boost
Added: 10 Aug 2015
Engineers at the Graphene Flagship have demonstrated a recyclable technique that yields cost-effect…

Water industry scores with service
Added: 7 Aug 2015
Water companies enjoy a better reputation with the public than other utilities, according to a rece…

Enel boosts geothermal plant with biomass
Added: 6 Aug 2015
Enel Green Power has built the world’s first biomass plant tasked with boosting efficiency of geoth…

FDA approves 3D-printed drug
Added: 5 Aug 2015
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has broken ground by approving the manufacture of the wor…

Energy data reveals renewables surge
Added: 4 Aug 2015
The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) published its annual Digest of UK Energy Statistic…
Food industry feels the pinch
Added: 3 Aug 2015
A recent survey of UK food manufacturers reveals that optimism has slightly cooled since last year,…

Hinkley Point C takes "step forward"
Added: 3 Aug 2015
EDF Energy has announced a number of new preferred bidders for its proposed nuclear power station, …

Jobs cuts sweep through energy sector
Added: 30 Jul 2015
Royal Dutch Shell and Centrica have both revealed plans to cut thousands of jobs in response to cha…