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ABWR

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.

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Rotork at Dutch water treatment plant

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…

Pembroke RWE2

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…

Moscow District Heating Sipos2

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…

Membrane

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…

ACWA Thames Water WTW

Odour control project at Thames Water

Added: 22 Oct 2012

London – Thames Water has installed odour scrubbing and activated carbon deodoriser technology from…

DRD Huntsman2

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…

Aberthaw ABB2

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…

CCS

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…

Wood

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…

Don Valley CCS EC

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…

Biomass

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…

Hydro bubble WWT wastewater2

Bubbling up energy savings

Added: 9 Oct 2012

Paul Barter, principal process engineer for Hydro International’s wastewater division looks at ener…

Viridor Parkway

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 WWT2

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…

Drax Power Plant 2

Government consults industry over energy costs

Added: 9 Oct 2012

London – The Government has launched a consultation over its proposed £250 million Energy Intensive…

kemble bredel watso2

Pumps switch at Australian water treatment plant

Added: 5 Oct 2012

Sydney, Australia – An Australian water treatment plant has significantly reduced its downtime and …