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City to harvest energy from water pipes

Added: 2 Jan 2013

Portland, Oregon – Lucid Energy, a company pioneering the development of in-pipe hydropower, is to …

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EU puts carbon capture funding on hold

Added: 19 Dec 2012

Brussels - The European Commission has opted to not to award any of the €275-million fund earmarked…

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New energy centre for Kodak

Added: 17 Dec 2012

London – Kodak Ltd site in Harrow, north west London, operates a combined heat and power (CHP) plan…

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Fracking opens up industry divide

Added: 16 Dec 2012

London - The UK government’s decision to allow the resumption of shale gas exploration in the UK ha…

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Green light for fracking

Added: 13 Dec 2012

London – Exploratory hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for shale gas can resume in the UK, subject to…

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Energy Institute launches training scheme

Added: 10 Dec 2012

London – The Energy Institute (EI) has launched an approved training provider scheme as part of its…

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Energy policy: Reality check needed (Comment)

Added: 10 Dec 2012

Volker Beckers CEO of RWE npower has voiced his concerns about the current direction of UK energy p…

DuPont

DuPont breaks ground on cellulosic biorefinery

Added: 6 Dec 2012

Work is gathering pace on one of the world’s largest commercial-scale cellulosic biorefineries

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Projects to address UK's material dependency

Added: 4 Dec 2012

The EPSRC is funding four new projects to address the UK’s limited resources and high material depe…

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Reducing bulk solvents in the process industries

Added: 3 Dec 2012

Bulk solvents used in the process industries can pose a serious threat to human and environmental h…

Energy Bill still holds threats for UK chemicals manufacturers

Added: 3 Dec 2012

London – UK chemicals makers need more details of measures to protect energy-intensive industries f…

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Tata saves £250k on fume-extraction energy costs

Added: 30 Nov 2012

Rotheram, UK – Tata Steel has cut annual energy costs by £250,000 following the installation of var…

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Business can't afford new green measures

Added: 28 Nov 2012

London – Many businesses will struggle to afford a three-fold increase in charges to pay for the go…

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Energy Bill: Tata closures a 'weather' warning

Added: 28 Nov 2012

Tata Steel’s decision to axe 900 jobs in the UK is part of a plan to turn the company into an “all-…

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Landfill gas analysers for China

Added: 23 Nov 2012

Beijing – The Liulitun landfill in Haidian District of Beijing has installed a UK-made Geotech fixe…

CCS

Carbon capture innovators to give UK the edge

Added: 22 Nov 2012

London – The UK government has announced 13 winning projects in a £20-million competition intended …

Monsal AD tech

Prince Charles in biogas-to-grid first

Added: 22 Nov 2012

Poundbury, UK – The Prince of Wales will today open the country’s first full-scale anaerobic digest…

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Improved detection of hazardous chemicals

Added: 21 Nov 2012

Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a system to quickly detect trace amounts of ch…

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Centre to help deal with nuclear waste

Added: 20 Nov 2012

A £1.2m centre to research the decontamination and safe storage of nuclear waste is being establish…

Biofuel

Choosing steels for the biofuels industry

Added: 20 Nov 2012

Stainless steel is a material of choice for many applications in bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas p…