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Hitachi buys UK's Horizon nuclear project
Added: 30 Oct 2012
Japan’s Hitachi has signed a £700m deal to buy Horizon Nuclear Power from Germany’s E.On and RWE.
In…

Software cuts Dutch energy usage
Added: 30 Oct 2012
Cambridge UK – The Dutch ministry of transport and water works is employing an eSight energy manage…

AMEC for UK nuclear lab project
Added: 30 Oct 2012
London - AMEC has been awarded a five-year contract by the UK’s National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) f…

EC to investigate Pembroke power plant approval
Added: 26 Oct 2012
London – The European Commission has launched an investigation into the UK Government’s approval of…

Actuators for district heating in Moscow
Added: 26 Oct 2012
Moscow, Russia – With temperatures dropping as low as -40°C, thousands of multi-flat dwellings in M…
Pores in graphene could lead to better membranes
Added: 25 Oct 2012
Researchers from MIT Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have discovered tiny pores in graphene th…

Odour control project at Thames Water
Added: 22 Oct 2012
London – Thames Water has installed odour scrubbing and activated carbon deodoriser technology from…

Huntsman UK trials new waste-heat power system (Comment added)
Added: 22 Oct 2012
Redcar, UK – DRD Power has installed its first heat recovery system, which uses Organic Rankine Cyc…

Welsh power station drives down oil costs
Added: 17 Oct 2012
Aberthaw, UK – Aberthaw Power Station in Wales is saving £350,000 a year on its oil costs following…

Carbon capture reaches a critical point
Added: 17 Oct 2012
London – The UK risks losing out on more than €900 million of EU funding intended to support the co…

Advanced CFB technology for large-scale biomass power plants
Added: 15 Oct 2012
Circulating fluidised bed (CFB) technology can be used for large scale power generation with a broa…

£2.5m to promote water industry innovation
Added: 15 Oct 2012
Grants totalling over £2.5m have been awarded to seven research projects that aim to develop proces…

Carbon capture to bring £1.3bn, 4000 jobs to region
Added: 15 Oct 2012
London - Investing in carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Yorkshire and Humber will provide a major…

ETI launches £20m carbon capture project
Added: 14 Oct 2012
London – The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is to invest up to £20 million to develop new carb…

Complex energy scene should not 'fuel' inertia
Added: 10 Oct 2012
London – The UK process industries are facing unprecedented rises in their energy bills over the ne…

Bubbling up energy savings
Added: 9 Oct 2012
Paul Barter, principal process engineer for Hydro International’s wastewater division looks at ener…

Tackle blackouts and price hikes with biogas
Added: 9 Oct 2012
Charlotte Morton, chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) responds…

Severn Trent Water taps Capula for AMP6
Added: 9 Oct 2012
Gouda, The Netherlands - Severn Trent Water has appointed Capula, recently acquired by Royal Imtech…

Government consults industry over energy costs
Added: 9 Oct 2012
London – The Government has launched a consultation over its proposed £250 million Energy Intensive…

Pumps switch at Australian water treatment plant
Added: 5 Oct 2012
Sydney, Australia – An Australian water treatment plant has significantly reduced its downtime and …