biomass
A £1.5m government-funded research project will examine the commercial feasibility of fast-growing tree species that have the potential to be harvested for biomass renewable energy. The money has been stumped up by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the project will establish a number of sites
There are a lot of ‘green’ products and services out there that we never report on because they’re a bit off the clean tech and business beat. We get so many emails about ethical soap, treehugger pants and green holiday tours that if we printed them off, we could
Technology
David Scott of the environmental consultancy ‘Entec‘ talks to Greenbang about the growth in demand for the company’s services. Watch the short film below, produced in association with Kyocera.
Clean Tech Start-up Index
Todays post from Greenbang’s special report on UK Clean Tech Start-up businesses is on G24 Innovations Ltd. Founder/Chief Executive:Robert M.Hertzberg, Co-founder and Chairman;Edward J. Stevenson, Co-founder andCEO * Founding date: September 2006 * Number of employees: 60 * Turnover: pre-revenue * Website: www.g24i.com (see also * www.renewablecapital.
white roofs
The idea of painting roofs white to reflect the sun’s rays and help cool houses naturally without energy-intensive air conditioning isn’t exactly new and has been floating around for a while. There seem to be some solid scientific arguments behind it but some people just think it’s
solar
SolarReserve, a US developer of utility scale solar power plants has filled its boots with $140m in a second round of funding. Financing was led by Citi Alternative Investments’ renewable energy private equity group, Sustainable Development Investments and Credit Suisse’s Customized Fund Investment Group, with other investors including US
hydrogen
Scientists – we’ll not call them boffins as it annoys some readers – at the University of Sunderland have converted a Nissan Almera to run off hydrogen. The project, called HyPower, has been carried out by the university’s Institute of Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (Amap) with regional partners to
Clean Tech Start-up Index
Flybrid Systems LLP is just one of the companies included in Greenbang’s Clean Tech Start-up Index, here is a bit more information on the company. * Founders Jon Hilton, managing partner; * Doug Cross, Technical Director * Founding date: January 2007 * Number of employees: 6 with two hires * planned * Turnover: £897,000
waste-to-energy
Plans for a rubbish power station in Cheshire have been approved by the government this week. Obviously not a power station that is rubbish but one that will be fuelled by waste. Ineos Chlor will construct the ‘energy from waste’ combined heat and power station with a 100MW capacity at
plastic bottles
A new £12m plastics recycling plant in North Wales will create 50 jobs and process 50,000 tonnes of water, milk and other soft drinks bottles, which would otherwise end up in landfill, back into new food packaging. The Closed Loop Recycling plant has received private equity funding from alternative
eco towns
It’s September, the ‘summer’ holidays are officially over and the political party conference season kicked off this week with the Liberal Democrats hosting theirs in the old people’s favourite seaside town of Bournemouth. With the global banking system in the meltdown following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and
ice cream
Ice cream is brilliant. And there’s even more reason to like it now that the founder of Scottish ice-cream maker Mackies has revealed plans to unite famers and landowners to create the UK’s largest wind power company. Dr Maitland Mackie, the chairman of Mackies of Scotland, wants 10,
