Month: August 2024

Can the UK become a nation of co-operators? – Co-op unveils bold new brand platform

Stuart Mitchell

The 180-year-old original and world’s first successful cooperative, The Co-op Group, launches one of its biggest ever campaigns to encourage the UK into a nation of co-operators, whereby the benefits both financially and socially of a cooperative business model are explained and embraced. The ‘Owned by You. Right By You’ campaign is launched as a new survey* reveals that over 50% of consumers admit they don’t understand what it means when a business is a co-operative or a mutual and two fifths (42%) admit they don’t understand what constitutes a…

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UK off track for Net Zero, say country’s climate advisors

Stuart Mitchell

The Climate Change Committee’s assessment is that only a third of the emissions reductions required to achieve the country’s 2030 target are currently covered by credible plans. Our 2030 target is the first one set in line with a Net Zero trajectory. This news comes against the backdrop of a more positive story – that the country’s emissions are now less than half the levels they were in 1990. This is largely due to the phase out of coal and the ramping up of renewables. This project has been a…

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AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric Call for Supplier Action to Help Decarbonize Digital Infrastructure

Stuart Mitchell

The Governing Body of the iMasons Climate Accord, a program of Infrastructure Masons, is calling on all suppliers serving data centers to support greater transparency in Scope 3 emissions as part of broader efforts to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint. Consisting of AWS, Digital Realty, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Schneider Electric, the Governing Body released an open letter today that explains the importance of widespread adoption of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), which are standardized, third-party-verified documents reporting the embodied emissions of a product. EPDs outline the greenhouse gas emissions of…

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Securing Wales’ green future, Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru is launched

Stuart Mitchell

The Economy Secretary Jeremy Miles officially launched the publicly-owned renewable energy developer for Wales, Trydan Gwyrdd Cymru recently. The company has been established to accelerate the development of renewable energy projects, particularly onshore wind, on the wider Welsh public estate and maximise their value for the people of Wales. The Trydan Gwyrdd team, based in Merthyr Tydfil, will be working alongside Natural Resources Wales to develop wind farms on the woodland estate. They will begin engaging with communities near initial sites at the earliest opportunity. At the launch in Bryncynon,…

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Ørsted invests in battery energy storage system co-located with Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm

Stuart Mitchell

Ørsted has taken final investment decision on a battery energy storage system, which will provide stability to the UK energy supply and reduce price volatility. The Tesla battery energy storage system will be installed on the same site as the onshore converter station for Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm in Swardeston, near Norwich, Norfolk, in the eastern part of England. The battery’s location on the same land as the onshore converter station minimises disruption to those living and working nearby.  The storage system has a capacity of 600 MWh…

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