Month: May 2023

Tesco to go peat-free on UK-grown bedding plants and compost in major carbon-saving move

Stuart Mitchell

In April Tesco became the first UK retailer to go peat-free on its British-grown bedding plants, in order to significantly lower their carbon footprint.  From earlier this year the supermarket started selling only compost that is also completely peat-free.  Peat is still the most popular aid used by the horticulture industry to grow potting plants but when harvested, vast quantities of carbon are released into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.    The ground-breaking step has been made in partnership with one of the UK’s leading ornamental plant suppliers, Bridge Farm Horticulture, based in Spalding,…

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Horizon Europe Guarantee fund awards £1bn in grants

Stuart Mitchell

The Horizon Europe Guarantee fund has reached an important milestone with more than £1 billion now awarded to UK-based researchers and innovators. The funding is enabling them to participate in Horizon Europe projects while the UK’s association to the flagship EU funding programme is delayed. Also today the government has set out its prospectus for a programme to protect and support the UK research and innovation sector, should it be required. The guarantee fund is delivered by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). It supports researchers and innovators who have been…

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Walmart Announces Plan To Expand Electric Vehicle Charging Network

Stuart Mitchell

Vishal Kapadia, Senior Vice President, Energy Transformation at Walmart has posted the following post on the Walmart website highlighting the companies plans to expand their vehicle charging network. As our customers and members continue to look for ways to save money and live better, I am excited to announce our plans at Walmart and Sam’s Club in the U.S. to make electric vehicle (EV) ownership more accessible, reliable, convenient and affordable for them across the country. By 2030, we intend to build our own EV fast-charging network at thousands of…

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Ocean wins planning consent for advertising “sleeve” around historic Marble Arch

Stuart Mitchell

Revenue raised will help conservation charity English Heritage repair the London landmark Advertising revenue will help support English Heritage’s major conservation of London’s iconic Marble Arch. Ocean has been given planning consent to erect a purpose built sleeve which will shroud the 19thCentury arch to generate funding for the English Heritage project. In keeping with the architecture of the famous white marble landmark, the covering will be sympathetically designed to illustrate the three main gated arches of the 14 metre tall structure it surrounds. The OOH display, which comprises six…

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Octopus Energy and RES to swap gas for green hydrogen at Andrex & Kleenex factories in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

RES and Octopus Energy Generation’s green hydrogen joint venture HYRO is working with Kimberly-Clark, the parent company of household brands like Andrex®, Kleenex® and Huggies®, to swap gas for green hydrogen at UK factories, to reduce emissions and boost energy security. HYRO is working with industrial businesses to develop, own and operate green hydrogen plants, making the most of local renewables when it’s sunny and windy. In this latest deal, HYRO is developing electrolysers to produce green hydrogen at two Kimberly-Clark UK manufacturing facilities. The on-site electrolysers will use electricity…

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