UK swimming pools dive into £60m energy efficiency boost

Across England, £60 million is allocated to enhance energy efficiency in 300 leisure facilities, including swimming pools in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

South West Water’s owner powers ahead with renewable acquisitions

Pennon Group has acquired three new solar projects which are predicted to generate over 95GWh of electricity annually

Village becomes ‘UK’s first’ area to run out of water

Villagers of Northend, Oxfordshire have been given bottled water

Government funds ‘Buckinghamshire’s first’ electric refuse collection vehicle

The project aims to create a blueprint for future conversions in the local authority’s vehicle fleet

Artificial lightning tech moo-ves UK farms to cleaner days

Dr Nick Humphries, Chief Agronomist at N2 Applied spoke to ELN about the technology that promises to reduce methane emissions by 99% from animal waste

Government back local authorities to help kickstart nature recovery

The selected authorities will receive a share of £1 million to identify where nature and wildlife habitats can be restored

Buckinghamshire solar farm to generate enough clean energy for 2,800 homes

The solar project is estimated to save 5,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide every year

UK’s ‘biggest privately-owned nuclear fusion facility’ enters construction

Pulsar Fusion’s 10,000 square-foot facility aims to generate a plasma temperature hotter than the surface of the Sun

Buckinghamshire business park plans subsidy-free solar project

It will have a capacity of more than 15MW, with provision for adding battery storage at a later date

Rock down to an Electric Avenue

  A new £9m project to test the streets of the future – full of electric cars, that is – has kicked off in 11 roads around the UK. ELN reporter Vicky Ellis visited one in Buckinghamshire to find out how residents are getting on with their new rides.