Nissan to invest £2bn for EVs in Sunderland

Nissan plans a £2bn investment in its Sunderland plant for two new electric models and a third UK battery factory

UK tyre recycling plant gets green light

Wastefront has secured an environmental permit for its tyre recycling facility at the Port of Sunderland

Self-driving double-decker buses to hit UK streets

The ‘world’s first’ self-driving bus service will welcome passengers on board in Edinburgh from the spring

Sunderland man fined £12k for illegal waste operation

Clifford Shee, aged 55, was prosecuted by the Environment Agency for operating outside the requirements of three exempt waste activities

Nissan finishes UK battery plant

Nissan and a number of project partners have completed the development of a new battery manufacturing process in Sunderland. The plant will now begin production of high density 40kWh battery cells for both electric vehicle and stationary energy storage systems. The High Energy Density Battery (HEDB) project, which also features Zero Carbon Futures, Hyperdrive Innovation […]

Sunderland firm fined £14k for illegal waste

A Sunderland-based company has been ordered to pay £14,700 for breaking environmental laws. Thompson Waste, which runs a waste transfer station at The Parade in Hendon, pleaded guilty to the illegal dumping of 585 tonnes of waste in a disused factory warehouse. It cost the landlords of the site at Lisburn Terrace, Pallion, more than […]

Nissan plugs-in 4.75MW solar farm in Sunderland

Nissan has switched on a solar farm at its biggest manufacturing site in Europe. The 19,000-panel project is now fully operational at its Sunderland facility, the car manufacturer’s centre of production for the all-electric Nissan LEAF and batteries. The 4.75MW solar farm has been installed alongside 10 wind turbines which were already generating 6.6MW of […]

Electric car test drives hit the fast lane

Fourteen people yesterday each took delivery of a 100% electric Nissan Leaf car as part of a major low carbon vehicle test drive in North East England. The Switch EV project, which began last September, is one of eight UK projects supported by the Technology Strategy Board’s £25m Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles Demonstrator Programme and […]

SSE in £4.5m deal with Nissan

Scottish and Southern Energy has clinched a deal to provide the power for a new Nissan electric car battery plant in Sunderland. The deal is for an embedded electricity network – a bespoke power system operating outside a supplier’sregulated distribution areas – and the Nissan deal is the 100th such contract signed by SSE. Nissan […]

Npower warns of ‘CRC victim’ dangers

“Don’t be a victim of the CRC” was the message from npower at the Energy Event. A seminar organised by the company stressed the value of an integrated strategy in dealing with the twin pressures of energy costs and carbon reduction. The need to adhere to the CRC – and the costs involved – mean […]