A technology firm says it is working on an electric car battery with a 500-mile range. IBM claims its lithium air battery will last around five times longer and is lighter than current batteries on the market. Researchers in Switzerland and the USA are working on the battery, which could hit the road from 2020, […]

RWE npower has changed its customer billing methods. Teaming up with IBM, the energy provider completed the first phase of their new Customer Service and Billing Platform system, which has been rolled out to 600,000 customer accounts. The multi-million pound project aims to improve customer services by simplifying the administration, billing and payment of their […]

Multinational technology firm IBM has predicted that humans will be able to harness the energy they create within the next five years. ‘People power’ is one of the ‘IBM 5 in 5’, a list in which the company predicts innovations that may come about in the next five years. The company says advances in renewable […]

Norwegian energy giant, Statoil, has joined a group of technology developers in designing an advanced environmental monitoring system for offshore installations. The contract is worth around £16 million, with Statoil providing nearly half of the funding for the project. Statoil says there are currently no monitoring methods that are integrated and enable physical, biological and […]

The Green Economy Council has held its first meeting to discuss how government and industry can work together to support the transition to a low carbon economy. The council comprises business leaders from a cross-section of industries and sectors who will advise government on green-growth policies such as infrastructure, innovation, investment and unnecessary regulation. The […]