All Power & Water


White Rose CCS carbon capture Drax

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…

United Utilities reservoir

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…

Estover CHP, Northumberland

Pharma firms go green

Added: 23 Sep 2015

A new renewable energy plant located in Cramlington, Northumberland will have an annual generating …

Cyber security

Hacked off?

Added: 22 Sep 2015

Microsoft’s new operating system (OS) Windows 10 was officially launched in July. But how has it af…

EDF Hinkley Point C nuclear power wide

Osborne announces £2bn Hinkley deal

Added: 21 Sep 2015

Chancellor George Osborne has today announced a £2 billion guarantee with China for the development…

Northumbrian Water Group's treatment works

Utilities splash-out on upgrades

Added: 18 Sep 2015

Water supply and treatment utility Yorkshire Water has announced a £100 million mechanical contract…

Condition monitoring

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

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.

Manufacturing Barometer

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…

Navdeep Singh Dhillon

Breakthrough in plant efficiency

Added: 10 Sep 2015

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have revealed new analysis that coul…

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…