The project is forecast to save approximately 104,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide over a ten-year period

Your fellow subscriber Vilnis Vesma wrote the following for a group of energy champions that he had been training. It was intended as a light-hearted “sideways look” at the subject, and never intended to be shared more widely, but he later learned that they had been using it as a behaviour-change aid.

The recent wave of climate change activism and the UK Government’s commitment to a net zero future have increased the pressure on business and industry to decarbonise.

MIT researchers say they are developing a new way to store excess renewable energy and deliver it back to the grid on demand

A thermal energy storage solution said to be 95% cheaper than standard panels linked to lithium-ion batteries has been launched. The project from United Sun Systems and the DoE’s Savannah River National Laboratory uses a 14-metre diameter parabolic dish covered with mirrors to focus the solar rays, creating temperatures of 750°C. The technology uses metal-hydride […]

Helsinki is receiving €100 million (£71m) for a new wastewater plant. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing the cash to Helsinki Region Environmental Services (HSY) to build the project in the capital of Finland. The new plant, located in west Helsinki, will be operational by the end of 2020 and will treat “the wastewater […]

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided the second installment of a €270 million (£227m) funding to a Viennese firm for energy efficiency measures. The cash will help Wiener Wohnen – an apartment management company believed to be the largest in Europe – improve the thermal energy efficiency of municipal housing. Initial funding under the […]

The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is seeking partners to participate in a retrofit project aimed at improving the energy efficiency of homes. The partners will be part of the ETI’s £100 million Smart Systems and Heat (SSH) technology programme announced last year. The project includes retrofitting a selected number of different domestic properties and further […]

Businesses and householders in Portsmouth will now be able to identify thermal inefficient properties through a new online mapping portal (pictured). Using specialist thermal sensors mounted on a survey aircraft, aerial mapping company Bluesky recorded the heat loss from buildings across the city on a cold winter night. The data was then matched to address […]

Renewable energy capacity in the UK could match that of the thermal sector by 2025. That’s according to GlobalData’s latest report, which predicts the installed capacity of renewable energy could reach 79GW by 2025, just 2GW less than the predicted thermal installed capacity. It claims the renewables industry is set to quickly grow from the […]