Friday, January 16, 2026

Foot-long fatberg removed from North East sewer by Northumbrian Water

A LARGE fatberg and a skip full of wrongly flushed items have been removed by Northumbrian Water from a clogged North East sewer. A large,...

Committee on Climate Change writes to Prime Minister

COMMITTEE on Climate Change has written a letter to the new Prime Minister, urging him to speed up UK's adaptation to climate change and...

New £1.26 million study to decarbonise the steel industry

SCIENTISTS at the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds have secured funding to investigate ways the UK steel industry can be decarbonised within 30 years. Steel...

£2 billion funding boost to start ‘new era’ for greener transport

PLANS to boost greener, active transport, which is to include walking, cycling as well as electric vehicles, have been launched by Transport Secretary Grant ...

‘Renewable energy industry needs to adopt a circular economy’, new research says

The renewable energy industry needs to adopt the ideas of a circular economy, where equipment is designed to be reused or re-manufactured when it...

Ofgem orders Symbio Energy to pay £450,000 into Government renewables scheme

Ofgem is issuing Symbio Energy with a provisional order, which compels it to pay around £450,000 in full for a government environmental scheme. The Feed...

Vattenfall presents plans for its most powerful onshore turbines in the UK

VATTENFALL has announced that its wind farm proposals for Clashindarroch II are to go into planning. These will be company’s most powerful onshore turbines in...

Industry associations call on the Government ‘to fix’ Green Homes Grants scheme

Industry associations are calling for four-point plan to fix Green Homes Grants scheme after one in three responders of a cross-industry survey say payment...

New technology launched to help care for Scotland’s traditional buildings

INNOVATIVE new technology which could transform how Scotland’s historic buildings are managed, maintained and repaired has been launched. A new software tool, which allows surveys...

Coronavirus could thwart energy storage growth in 2020

IF coronavirus containment measures continue to curtail movement of goods and people through Q2 this year, the market impact could cut Wood Mackenzie’s 2020...