The UK’s marine energy industry is receiving funding worth £6.5million for innovation in the sector. The investment from the Technology Strategy Board and Scottish Enterprise will support seven new wave and tidal projects, which includes research, development and demonstration of innovative technologies. Iain Gray, Chief Executive of the Technology Strategy Board said: “These projects will […]

An £11milion fund from the Government is set to help fleet operators test out new low carbon technology. The £23million programme, managed by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) in partnership with the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles, is aimed at encouraging the use of clean fuels for heavy goods […]

Innovation is vital for the UK’s low carbon economy, according to a new report. The Technology Innovation Needs Assessments (TINAs) analysis, which looked at marine energy, electricity networks and storage (EN&S) and CCS, found the technologies can play a key role in cutting the UK’s carbon emissions but further innovation is urgently required. The report […]

An estimated £56million of public and private funding has been made available to support low carbon transport projects. The Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s innovation agency, said the money will be invested in 17 major research and development projects and many will be led by car manufacturers such as Ford, Jaguar and Land Rover. They […]

Quintessentially British power systems company Rolls-Royce has set its sights on becoming part of the UK renewable revolution through the development of a record-breaking tidal energy system, created by its subsidiary Tidal Generation Limited. The 500kW tidal turbine, situated underwater off the Orkney Islands, has generated and fed over 100MWh of electrical power into the […]

A battery for electric cars that boosts the typical range by 35% has been successfully tested by an European battery supplier Axeon, which led the £1.3 million project to develop the battery, found the range was better compared to a battery of the same weight with existing technologies. John Laughlin at the Technology Strategy Board, […]

Classic automobile brand Land Rover have joined the new, low-emissions arm of the motoring industry in the UK by announcing that they will showcase three of it Range_e concept models. The Range_e is based on the Range Rover Sport and uses the current 245PS 3.0-litre TDV6 diesel engine. Using a parallel hybrid system, with a […]

One of the companies that got a slice of a £7m windfall to finance tidal development has teamed up with defence giant BAE Systems to create a wave power device. Aquamarine Power won a £450,000 grant from the government’s Technology Strategy Board to support a 30-month research and development scheme to try to make its […]

Nine wave and tidal research and development projects have won funding worth $£7m. Some £6.6m of the money is coming from the Technology Strategy Board, a government-backed funding programme, while £400,000 is being out up by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The nine projects are run by Aquamarine Power, Aviation Enterprises, AWS Ocean […]

A long-awaited report into the investment needed to create a low carbon UK economy has concluded that the problem “is akin to trying to build substantial new housing stock without a 20-25 year mortgage market”. The Green Investment Bank Commission report – known as the Wigley report after its chairman Bob Wigley – states that […]