£1.4m green project transforms Gloucestershire police stations

Cotswold Energy Group has replaced fossil fuel boilers with renewable systems and installed a large solar array

Gloucestershire school goes solar, thanks to National Grid

Rednock School in Gloucestershire becomes the first to install solar panels with funding from National Grid

UK startup flies ‘world’s largest’ hydrogen-electric plane

A 19-seater plane powered by a hydrogen-electric engine took to the skies above Gloucestershire

‘EVs not the right road for Police,’ says PCC

This is due to fear of them running out of battery while chasing crime, he says

River water-powered ‘reverse fridge’ to heat UK council’s offices

Heat pumps will use refrigerant fluid and heat energy from a river to heat 19th-century mills

Will Gloucestershire become home to ‘world’s first’ fusion power station?

Gloucestershire County Council seeks the endorsement of a bid to nominate sites for the prototype fusion power reactor

Second generation smart meters hit five million mark

Residents of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire are officially the fastest adopters of the smart technology in Britain, followed by those in South Derbyshire

Fuel emptied from UK’s disused nuclear reactor

Fuel from the first reactor of a disused nuclear power plant in Gloucestershire has been emptied. The Oldbury plant stopped generating electricity in 2012. Its first reactor began producing power in 1968 and operated for more than 44 years. At the start of defuelling, the reactor held nearly 26,000 fuel elements, each measuring more than a metre in length which, if placed […]

Gloucestershire to heat homes with its own waste

Around 26,000 homes in Gloucestershire will get their heating from landfill waste, after the government approved a £500 million energy waste centre in the county. Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles approved the application for Javelin Park, which will divert around 92% of rubbish from 600,000 residents from landfill. Waste managers Urbaser and building […]

400 Stroud homes to be fitted with renewable heating

Hundreds of tenants in Gloucestershire will soon benefit from renewable heating systems after Stroud District Council was awarded the largest amount of funding under the Government’s energy initiative. The Council won nearly £900,000 under the latest round of DECC’s Renewable Heat Premium Payment (RHPP) competition. Stroud District Council will replace heating oil with air source […]