Octopus Renewables has secured a £185 million clean energy mandate from the National Gird UK Pension Scheme. Octopus Renewables, the specialist clean energy investor and part of Octopus Group, has won a new UK corporate pension mandate with the National Grid UK Pension Scheme (NGUKPS), to invest £185m in UK solar and onshore wind assets. […]

The 400MWh US system follows on from the announcement of a 250MWh system in the UK. Image: Highview Power. Highview Power is laying claim to the first installation of a long duration liquid air energy storage (LAES) system in the United States. The system – set to be a minimum of 50MW / 400MWh – is […]

Quorn has announced that they will be adding a carbon footprint label to their most popular products. In a move to be more transparent with customers, Quorn is introducing carbon footprint data for sixty per cent of its product volume, with the aim of better informing people who want to understand the environmental impact of […]

Business leaders from across the UK have been appointed for the UK’s first citizens’ assembly on climate change. The Climate Assembly UK was commissioned by six cross-party House of Commons Select Committees in summer 2019, in response to the Government’s commitment to meet net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Assembly, 110 members strong, are representative of […]

#SmartSolarStorage2020: GRIDSERVE said its new solar-plus-storage site is the first in the UK to include bifacial PV modules and single-axis trackers, as well as being unsubsidised. Image: GRIDSERVE. Renewables developer GRIDSERVE has completed a “game changing” hybrid solar-plus-storage farm in York, UK, claiming it to be the first in the country to boast single-axis trackers and […]

The City of London Corporation (CLC) has announced that the capital will get its first zero-emissions street. Beech Street, much of which runs under the Barbican Estate, will now be restricted to zero emission vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians by Spring 2020. This new initiative is subject to final approval by Transport for London (TfL). Emergency […]

Widerøe, the largest regional airline in Scandinavia, has partnered with industrial technology experts Rolls Royce to develop zero emissions air travel. The programme, announced at a Clean Aerospace event at the British Embassy in Oslo, is part of Widerøe´s goal of replacing their regional fleet of over 30 planes with new electric ones by 2030. […]

Asda has partnered with the non-profit organisation City to Sea to implement free water-refill schemes in all Asda cafes. The supermarket giant has committed to reducing the amount of plastic pollution reaching oceans by joining City to Sea’s ‘Refill Revolution’, providing customers with free water stations to refill bottles in all Asda cafes. The implementation […]

Living sustainably doesn’t mean you have to live without luxuries but instead be aware of your resource consumption and choose options that reduce unnecessary waste. Living sustainably doesn’t mean you have to live without luxuries but instead be aware of your resource consumption and choose options that reduce unnecessary waste. Urban consumption contributes 10% of […]

The famous supermarket chain will support the circular economy model by reusing unsold fresh bakery bread to make olive crostini’s and bread pudding. Tesco, a well-known British supermarket with approximately 7000 stores worldwide, has recently launched a new project to eliminate the immense amounts of bread wastage the UK experiences daily. The initiative will give […]