Tag: Renewables

100% of Hackney Council electricity now supplied by renewables

Stuart Mitchell

Hackney Council has announced it will source 100% of the electricity it uses from renewable sources – as part of its decisive action to reduce carbon emissions and fight global warming.  The increase – which will see all of the Council’s electricity sourced from wind and solar power – is being introduced alongside a range of other radical decarbonisation measures.  These include large rooftop solar panel schemes across Council buildings, and the recently-announced Green Homes programme, which will provide free insulation and trial renewable heating upgrades to help residents save…

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E.ON extends 100% renewables-backed electricity offer to small business customers

Stuart Mitchell

E.ON has announced it would be extending its 100% renewables-backed electricity supply to eligible small business customers across Britain – committing to source electricity matched with wind, solar and other sources for 100,000 or more small businesses over the next 12 months. E.ON already provides its residential customers electricity supply backed by 100% renewable sources – on all tariffs, as standard, at no extra cost. Eligible small business customers will also now receive that offer when they renew or agree a new supply contract directly with E.ON. In a survey for…

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£149k for bid to use hydrogen from renewables to produce gin

Stuart Mitchell

Edinburgh Napier will play a key role in an investigation into the feasibility of hydrogen as a fuel to decarbonise the distilling process. The HySpirits project has been awarded £148,600 by the Department of Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to conduct the study at The Orkney Distillery. The project will investigate the development of a thermal fluid heater system to operate with hydrogen as the combustion fuel within the distilling process. This system will remove the need to use fossil fuels such as kerosene and liquid petroleum gas. HySpirits brings together…

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Renewables power Britain to new carbon emissions record

Stuart Mitchell

On Sunday June 30 carbon emissions from electricity fell to just 97g per kWh, breaking the previous record of 104g per kWh set last summer, and for the first time ever meeting the UK Committee on Climate Change’s 2030 target of 100 g per kWh for a whole day. June 30 was also the first ever day when more than half of Britain’s electricity was powered by renewables – 39% from wind, 9% from solar, 8% from biomass and 1% from hydro. The changes seen on the power grid reflect…

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Barclays commits to source 100% renewable electricity for its global operations by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

Barclays, the transatlantic consumer and wholesale bank, has joined RE100 with a commitment to source 100% renewable electricity for its global operations by 2030, with an interim goal of 90% by 2025. This will see Barclays l reduce its global emissions by 80% by 2025, once the interim target has been reached. RE100 is a global leadership initiative led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP, which now brings together more than 170 leading companies committed to sourcing 100% renewable electricity – massively scaling up demand for clean power.…

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