Small wind turbine manufacturer Gaia-Wind is to build a £5m production and worldwide distribution hub in Glasgow. The facility, which will create more than 50 jobs, will be for final assembly and testing turbines. It will also act as a one-stop-shop for research, development, sales and marketing. The company picked Glasgow after carrying out a […]

Tata Steel is setting up a £1.3m plate processing and distribution plant in anticipation of a boom in wind power manufacturing. The company is said to be building the plant at its existing centre in Scunthorpe. Tata says the plant will handle up to 200,000 tonnes of steel a year which will be used to […]

Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the key to tackling climate change is to put initiatives into “profit-making terms”. Mr Cameron said there is a “compelling economic case to be made for fighting climate change that is barely out of the blocks yet”. Writing in The Observer newspaper, the Prime Minister said the “green […]

David Porter from AEP wins life time achievement award

Kanat Emiroglu from British Gas Business talks about gas

Celebrating the the very best in energy procurement, last night saw the inaugural launch of the Energy ‘Buying and Supplying’ Excellence Awards 2010. Organised by Edge Business Media the event was held at the magnificent Langham Hotel in Central London. The awards recognised outstanding achievement in all three areas of energy procurement- buying, supply and […]

Plaid Cymru’s Jonathan Edwards MP has said Ofgem’s investigation into the practises of the UK retail energy sector is justified. He said the current ‘competitive market’ didn’t work in the interests of customers and that an investigation was needed to clamp down on alleged ‘cartel-like behaviour’. Mr Edwards said: “What we need is a serious […]

Prof Dr Christian Juckenack discusses Siemens plans for solar energy

Two weeks after a double whammy at the Green Business Awards, Marks & Spencer has scooped two more green awards. At the Energy Institute Awards in London the retail giant won the Communication Award for its energy campaigns and the Energy Excellence Award. M&S was not the only twin-winner of the night. The University of […]

German renewable energy company juwi is to build solar power plants in Birmingham after saying that the UK has finally jumped “on the bandwagon on the way to renewable energies”. juwi Renewable Energies wants to establish solar projects in the UK that will cover the entire PV process, from acquisition of suitable land to completion […]