Year: 2022

One of London’s largest hotel owner operators, PPHE Hotel Group, joins Zero Carbon Forum to help supercharge its zero-carbon strategy for 2022

Stuart Mitchell

PPHE Hotel Group, an international hospitality real estate company, which operates the Park Plaza hotel brand in Europe, has taken another significant step towards achieving its net zero status by joining forces with Zero Carbon Forum.   Zero Carbon Forum is a non-profit organisation, empowering members to reach sustainability targets with greater speed, efficiency, and profit as a united effort. With defined roadmaps backed by peers, government, and leading sustainability experts — together it helps hospitality organisations, of all sizes, progress at pace to a net zero future.   Now with close…

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Renewables pioneer Juliet Davenport appointed Energy Institute President

Stuart Mitchell

Renewable energy pioneer Juliet Davenport OBE HonFEI has become the new President of the Energy Institute (EI). Formally appointed by members at the professional membership body’s Annual General Meeting, the founder of Good Energy succeeds former National Grid CEO Steve Holliday FREng FEI, and will be President for the next three years. Following her appointment, Juliet Davenport said: “For me, sustainable energy is a life’s passion and I’m honoured to have been appointed as President of the Energy Institute, one of our industry’s oldest and most respected professional bodies. “The…

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Greggs Launches First Eco-Shop To Trial Sustainable In-Store Initiatives

Stuart Mitchell

Greggs, a leading UK food-on-the-go retailer, announces it has opened its first Eco-Shop, providing a test bed for future in-store sustainability initiatives. New ‘shop of the future’ format will test ideas and technologies aimed at reducing environmental impact of operations The new Eco-Shop, which has opened at Great Billing, Northampton, is a brand new and bespoke format where Greggs will test innovative solutions and initiatives aimed at delivering real progress in reducing the environmental impact of the company’s operations. Successful new ideas and technologies will then be rolled out across…

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bp and thyssenkrupp Steel work together to advance the decarbonisation of steel production

Stuart Mitchell

bp and thyssenkrupp Steel have announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) focused on the development of long-term supply of low carbon hydrogen and renewable power in steel production, helping accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition.   thyssenkrupp Steel accounts for 2.5 percent of CO2 emissions in Germany, mainly at the Duisburg site where the main emitters, the blast furnaces, are operated. By replacing the coal-fired blast furnaces with direct reduction plants where iron ore is reduced with low-carbon hydrogen, thyssenkrupp Steel intends to make steel production climate-neutral…

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The Carbon Trust leads consortium taking on collaboration and knowledge sharing across Heat Pump Ready

Stuart Mitchell

Heat pumps are a key solution for decarbonising homes and will be critical for meeting the UK’s commitment to achieve Net Zero by 2050. The Heat Pump Ready Programme, funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP), is designed to support the development and demonstration of heat pump technologies and tools, and the solutions needed to accelerate high-density, cost-effective deployment of heat pumps in domestic housing.  The Carbon Trust, in a consortium with Ipsos and Technopolis, with additional support on technical input and dissemination from a range of organisations, will…

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