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Drax abandons CCS project
Added: 25 Sep 2015
Energy firm Drax has announced it will end further investment in the 426MW White Rose carbon captur…

Utility counts cost of water bug
Added: 23 Sep 2015
United Utilities revealed today that water quality issues suffered in Lancashire last month would c…
Pharma firms go green
Added: 23 Sep 2015
A new renewable energy plant located in Cramlington, Northumberland will have an annual generating …
Hacked off?
Added: 22 Sep 2015
Microsoft’s new operating system (OS) Windows 10 was officially launched in July. But how has it af…

Osborne announces £2bn Hinkley deal
Added: 21 Sep 2015
Chancellor George Osborne has today announced a £2 billion guarantee with China for the development…
Utilities splash-out on upgrades
Added: 18 Sep 2015
Water supply and treatment utility Yorkshire Water has announced a £100 million mechanical contract…

Maintenance slump a 'critical risk'
Added: 17 Sep 2015
A new study has revealed a downward slide for maintenance budgets among UK manufacturers, putting t…

Wessex Water lifts boil notice
Added: 14 Sep 2015
Wessex Water has lifted a ’boil water’ notice affecting 250 of its customers in the Somerset area.

Scrap ineffective green taxes, says EEF
Added: 14 Sep 2015
A report published by manufacturers’ organisation EEF calls on the government to scrap the Carbon F…

Breakthrough in plant efficiency
Added: 10 Sep 2015
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed new analysis that coul…

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…

Materials boost for energy storage
Added: 25 Aug 2015
Funding to develop advanced materials for future energy storage technologies has been announced.

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…

Nuclear defueling nears completion
Added: 17 Aug 2015
Oldbury nuclear power station will be completely defueled by October, the site’s operators have sai…
Fracking to be ‘fast-tracked’
Added: 13 Aug 2015
Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd and communities secretary Greg Clark have today anno…

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…

The power of cold
Added: 11 Aug 2015
Backup gensets offer a resilient means of protecting plant processes, but they are not sustainable …

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…