High-temperature heat pump targets industrial process heat
The Sabroe HitemHP industrial heat pump is designed to deliver hot water at temperatures up to 122°C for high-temperature process applications. A new range of industrial heat pumps capable of...
View ArticleHydrogen and solar tackle peak power demand at recycling site
GeoPura Hydrogen Power Units at Elsa Recycling’s Stockport facility. A recycling facility in Stockport has replaced two diesel generators with a combination of hydrogen power units, solar generation...
View Article500MW Scottish battery storage project wins consent
Illustrative view of a utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS). Scottish Ministers have approved plans for a 500MW/2,000MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Aberdeenshire, designed to...
View ArticleUK heat pump installations fall 22%
Air-to-water heat pumps accounted for 99% of UK retrofit installations in the first half of 2026. UK heat pump installations fell by 22% in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last...
View ArticleManaging explosion risk in battery storage systems
Containerised Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Coalburn, Scotland in January 2026. The growth of containerised battery energy storage systems (BESS) has intensified the focus on safe design and...
View ArticleUK biogas industry urges ministers to back British gas over costly imports
Industry leaders have sent a letter signed by more than 170 businesses and organisations, warning that a stalled government support scheme is putting British jobs, investment and energy security at...
View ArticleMobile battery tackles port grid constraint for electric vessel
Fellten’s 450 kWh Charge Qube provides shoreside charging for Tidal Transit’s electric crew-transfer vessel e-Ginny. A 450 kWh mobile battery energy storage system is being deployed to charge an...
View ArticleStorage for the long haul: £28 million innovation competition launches
Grid-scale storage will have to accommodate growing levels of variable renewable generation. A £28 million UK programme has been launched to develop energy storage technologies capable of supplying...
View ArticleRising stars celebrated at Scotland’s Young Professional Green Energy Awards...
Scotland’s next generation of renewable energy leaders were celebrated on 20 August at the Young Professional Green Energy Awards 2026. (Words: Scottish Renewables). The annual awards, organised by...
View ArticleWaste-to-SAF technology completes 72-hour endurance trials
Nova Pangaea’s demonstration plant on Teesside, where its REFNOVA waste biomass conversion process has completed a landmark round of endurance trials. A UK process for converting waste biomass into...
View ArticleEurope needs over 140 LNG cargoes a month to rebuild record low gas storage...
LNG carrier berthed at an import terminal. Competition between European and Asian markets is playing an increasingly important role in determining where global LNG cargoes are delivered. Europe will...
View ArticleFerrari’s first electric car fetches record $40m at US auction
“Chassis 0” is the first production chassis of the Ferrari Luce (image credit: RM Sotheby’s). Ferrari’s first fully electric car has sold for $40 million (£29.8m) at a charity auction in California,...
View ArticleIE5 motor efficiency class enters IEC standard
Electric motors used in continuously operated equipment such as pumps, fans and compressors can account for substantial industrial energy consumption (pictured: WEG motor). The International...
View ArticleCould geothermal roads help prevent potholes before they form?
Construction underway outside Senate House, University of Surrey (image credit: University of Surrey). The UK’s pothole problem could one day be tackled from beneath the road surface, using technology...
View ArticleUK solar-thermal manufacturing gets £7.5m backing from GBE
Naked Energy’s VirtuHOT solar thermal collectors at the University of Westminster. The evacuated-tube system generates renewable heat from solar energy. Renewable heat technology firm Naked Energy...
View ArticleMassachusetts utilities test residential EVs as grid resource in...
Image credit: Serge Cornu / Shutterstock. Two of Massachusetts’ largest electricity utilities have launched a pilot programme to test whether residential electric vehicles (EVs) can operate as grid...
View ArticleAD trade group welcomes NESO biomethane report and calls for greater...
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has welcomed NESO’s report Exploring the Role of Biomethane in the Energy System to 2050, which concludes that biomethane “could deliver...
View ArticleOfgem proposes grid connection fees to deter speculative data centre projects
Data centre developers could be required to pay refundable commitment fees worth hundreds of millions of pounds to secure electricity grid connections under new proposals from energy regulator Ofgem,...
View ArticleGovernment legalises plug-in solar panels for UK homes from August
The UK government is to legalise plug-in solar panels for household use from 27 August, allowing consumers to generate electricity from small photovoltaic systems connected directly to a standard...
View ArticleDirty solar panels may be quietly eroding commercial PV performance,...
Cleaning solar panels. Commercial building owners could be losing a significant proportion of the electricity generated by their rooftop solar arrays through gradual build-ups of dirt and bird...
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