All Power & Water


Lontra's Blade Compressor

Compressor wins IMechE funding

Added: 1 Sep 2015

Midlands-based firm Lontra has been named as one of the first to receive a funding boost from the I…

Batteries

Materials boost for energy storage

Added: 25 Aug 2015

Funding to develop advanced materials for future energy storage technologies has been announced.

United Utilities reservoir

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…

Longannet Power Station

ScottishPower to close Longannet

Added: 19 Aug 2015

ScottishPower has announced plans to close its coal-fired Longannet Power Station in March next yea…

Oldbury Power Station

Nuclear defueling nears completion

Added: 17 Aug 2015

Oldbury nuclear power station will be completely defueled by October, the site’s operators have sai…

Ed Davey tweet

Fracking to be ‘fast-tracked’

Added: 13 Aug 2015

Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd and communities secretary Greg Clark have today anno…

A wastewater treatment plant in Oregon.

Wastewater process cleans up C02

Added: 12 Aug 2015

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a wastewater treatment process that …

Honeywell Experion PKS Orion

Honeywell updates Experion LX

Added: 11 Aug 2015

Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) has rolled out an updated version of Experion LX, its distributed…

Michael Ayres, deputy chief executive of Dearman

The power of cold

Added: 11 Aug 2015

Backup gensets offer a resilient means of protecting plant processes, but they are not sustainable …

Waste water treatment plant

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 Green Power

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…

Drax

Energy data reveals renewables surge

Added: 4 Aug 2015

The Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) published its annual Digest of UK Energy Statistic…

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power wide

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, …

Shell's Ormen Lange gas field in Norway

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…

Elster smart meter

Honeywell buys into 'smart' technology

Added: 28 Jul 2015

Honeywell has announced plans to buy Elster, a supplier of advanced utility metering technologies, …

Water Industry

Payback time for the water industry

Added: 22 Jul 2015

Water utilities in Europe are tackling the problem of aging infrastructure by focusing on innovatio…

Drax Power Plant

Blackout fears amid plant closures

Added: 17 Jul 2015

Winter blackouts are increasingly likely as the UK’s energy capacity margin falls to 1.2% - its low…

Biogen AD plant

Budget to impact renewables

Added: 13 Jul 2015

Figures published by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) suggest the anaero…

National Grid control centre

In demand

Added: 9 Jul 2015

With plant closures outstripping the supply of new electricity generating capacity, last month saw …

Food machine

Food industry cuts water use

Added: 7 Jul 2015

Major food and drink manufacturers have cut their water usage by almost a quarter, according to fin…