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Newcastle powers up to 100% clean energy
Newcastle City Council has set out proposals to power the city with 100% clean energy by 2050. The proposals are a significant step to fight climate change, and go much further than national targets,...
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Government launches £2m competition to promote roll-out of hydrogen-fuelled...
Public and private sector fleets can get up to 75% off the cost of zero-emission fuel cell electric vehicles. Plans to make nearly every vehicle in the country zero-emission by 2050 have taken a...
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Oxford Council has helped reduce over 6,000 tonnes of damaging CO2 emissions...
Oxford City Council has helped reduce more than 6,000 tonnes of damaging carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from being sent into the atmosphere every year through a range of energy conservation projects....
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Cash boost for cleaner, greener vans and lorries
Transport Minister Andrew Jones announces £19 million funding to help freight industry cut vehicle emissions and unveils accreditation scheme. Up to £19 million will be available to support the freight...
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UK secures historic deal to combat global aviation emissions
The UK has agreed a huge aviation climate deal with 190 countries. Airlines will offset emissions aiming for carbon neutral growth from 2020. The UK along with 190 other countries has secured a major...
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Low emission freight and logistics trial competition winners announced
Vans will go electric and lorries will run on hydrogen dual-fuel under a £20 million government programme to cut emissions and improve air quality, Transport Minister John Hayes announced yesterday (11...
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UK to lead global challenge to clean up carbon
Energy Minister Claire Perry has (Wednesday 23 May) announced the UK is to lead an international challenge with Saudi Arabia and Mexico to remove carbon from emissions. It will be a unique opportunity...
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Future Cities mission to China: applications now open
TweetInnovative UK businesses working in the smart cities sector can meet potential customers, partners and investors in China’s Greater Bay Area (July 18th). Applications are now open for UK...
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Hackney Council to develop energy company
This month Hackney Council has embarked on plans to establish its own energy company (October 2018). The borough’s first municipal energy company was set up in Shoreditch in 1897. Now, over 120 years...
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£1bn potential of circular economy to Scotland’s cities and regions revealed...
The potential value to the local economies of circular approaches in Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire and Tayside, is set out in reports commissioned by Zero Waste Scotland, and highlighted in a speech by...
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New Solar Loan
Bristol Credit Union has launched a new solar loan to help householders take advantage of the Feed-in-Tariff before the Government forces its end in March 2019. The current Feed-in-Tariff pays solar PV...
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Scottish Renewables: “Consign coal heating to ‘dustbin of history’ to meet...
The 14,000 Scottish homes which use coal as their main form of heating must switch to cleaner alternatives if Scotland is to hit its ambitious climate change targets, according to industry body...
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Smart technology will make green energy system cheaper, BNEF study concludes
The UK should make wider use of energy storage systems and other smart technologies if it wants to decarbonise its power grid at the lowest cost possible, according to new research released today by...
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Plan to enable first UK carbon capture project from the mid 2020s announced...
The UK’s first carbon capture, usage and storage project could could be operational from the mid 2020s under a government action plan unveiled today (November 28th). The UK’s first carbon capture usage...
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Government Announces First Successful projects under Round One of €500...
7 major climate change projects to share €77 million government funding, leveraging a total investment of €300 million in round one of the scheme The Taoiseach, Mr. Leo Varadkar T.D., the Minister for...
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Crown Estate Scotland issues first agreement for critical CO2 storage...
Crown Estate Scotland has announced that it has signed its first ever lease option for carbon dioxide (CO2) storage (November 27th). The project, Acorn CCS, which will be based at the St Fergus Gas...
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World-first carbon ‘net-zero’ hub of heavy industry to help UK seize global...
The UK could have the world’s first ‘net-zero carbon’ cluster of heavy industry by 2040, thanks to up to £170 million of new funding announced at COP24 climate talks in Poland today (13 December)....
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Proposals to protect consumers whilst guaranteeing payments for households...
Households and businesses installing new solar panels will be guaranteed payment for power provided back to the grid under government proposals set out today (Tuesday 8 January) to unlock the smart...
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The benefits of bifacial solar panels to the Scottish economy
Heriot-Watt University, in partnership with industry partners Wood, is building a model that aims to highlight the benefits of the country moving to double-sided solar panels (bifacial solar cells)...
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Nottingham aims to be first carbon neutral city in the UK
Nottingham could become the first carbon neutral city in the UK after the City Council set itself an ambitious target to achieve this by 2028. The city has already met its Energy Strategy target early...
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