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

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

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

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

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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Anheuser-Busch switches to renewable electricity in the US

The American brewer Anheuser-Busch is set to buy entirely renewable electricity by 2021 after signing the largest solar power purchase agreement (PPA) of any US beverage company. Coupled with its Budweiser Wind Farm in Billings, Oklahoma, the move will allow Anheuser-Busch to reach 100% renewable electricity in the US four years ahead of its 2025 goal. It will also enable parent company AB InBev to achieve 50% renewable electricity globally – a step toward its 100% goal in the RE100 initiative, led by The Climate Group in partnership with CDP.…

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