The Drax Foundation, which is the corporate foundation of the renewable energy company Drax Group, has announced a new grant of £150,000 for Energy Sparks, an energy education charity that works with schools. The new funding will enable Bath-based Energy…
THE Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce has welcomed the announcement that the Government has awarded Track Two status to the Harbour Energy project which links Phillips 66, VPI and others to the Viking carbon capture and storage project under…
New statistics released today by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero confirm that renewables generated a record annual amount of electricity in 2022, outstripping fossil fuels for a second year. Onshore and offshore wind also generated their highest…
Britain’s growing fleet of wind turbines generated more electricity than gas-fired power stations for the first time in the first three months of this year, new data released by Drax Electric Insights has found. Almost a third (32.4%) of Britain’s…
River Basin Management Plans bring together local actions that government, the EA, the water sector and partners need to deliver £5 billon of investment over 5 years will help protect and enhance England’s waters, tackling the impacts of pollution and…
Tony Quinn Technology Director at ORE highlights the scale of testing facilities required for the next generation of offshore wind turbines to the Secretary of State for International Trade, Kemi Badenoch and Pensana Chairman, Paul Atherley. Pensana was represented at the…
12 August Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced that Equinor’s Hydrogen to Humber Saltend (H2H Saltend) production facility has been successfully progressed through Phase-2 of the Government’s cluster sequencing process. The selected projects will now proceed to…
Ørsted has set a clear expectation towards all suppliers to use 100 % renewable electricity by 2025, becoming the first energy company in the world to do so. The commitment builds on learnings from Ørsted’s existing supply chain decarbonisation programme, first established…
Work has started on the creation of another unique wildlife site, “Novartis Ings” on the south bank of the Humber which will provide industrial opportunity along the South Humber Bank in the decades ahead. As previously reported, Novartis transferred a…
Team Humber Marine Alliance and Grimsby Renewables Partnership have officially merged at Offshore Wind Connections 2022. The new company, Humber Marine and Renewables, was launched at the leading conference on April 28, cementing the two organisations’ partnership and bringing more…
Collett increase wind energy carrying capacity with the acquisition of Plant Speed’s wind turbine fleet. Halifax based Collett & Sons Ltd and Bristol’s Plant Speed have agreed a deal which will see their specialist wind turbine equipment join the Collett…
The Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership is to reallocate £2m of its existing funding towards a new Clean Growth Accelerator Fund to help tackle the impact of climate change. Building on the Government’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and the recently released UK Innovation Strategy,…
The Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership is to reallocate £2m of its existing funding towards a new Clean Growth Accelerator Fund to help tackle the impact of climate change. Building on the Government’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution and…
In the week preceding International Trade Week, Tech Week Humber 2021 and Hull and East Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (HEY LEP) welcomed headline partners Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) to Hull. As an active partner of Tech Week Humber, HEY…
A new report by the Offshore Wind Industry Council – published on the day that COP26 focusses on accelerating the global transition to clean energy – highlights the progress which the UK’s offshore wind industry has made on the landmark Sector Deal agreed with the Government in 2019. The document “Offshore Wind: Building On The UK’s Success” outlines…
UK firms forced to show how they intend to hit climate change targets There was promising news from COP26 on Finance day of the Summit as UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that by 2023 most big UK firms and financial…
The Humber has come together to lead the global fight against climate change. The Waterline Summit 2021 – the biggest event of its kind in the North of England – successfully united businesses, public sector organisations, schools, colleges and communities…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council has taken delivery of its first fully electric-powered minibus. The green, zero-emissions minibus will be used by the council’s transportation team for taking children to schools in the area. The Mercedes E-Vito people carrier will…
In his first speech as Energy and Climate Change Minister, Greg Hands has told the offshore wind industry that it is playing a prime role in helping the UK to reach net zero. In his keynote address at the opening of RenewableUK’s Global Offshore…
The Waterline Summit is returning as an even bigger and more ambitious event, linking the Humber to the globally critical COP26 climate change conference. The event will be held on 18th-22nd October, 2021 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR EARLY INTEREST…
Leading renewable energy firm Ørsted has confirmed that their 1000th offshore wind turbine has been installed in UK waters. As part of the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm installation, the 16th turbine to be erected at site symbolises the world…
New polling by YouGov, commissioned by RenewableUK, shows overwhelming public support for Government prioritising investment in renewable energy over all the other measures outlined by the Prime Minister in his Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution. When Boris Johnson announced…
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Asset Strategy Department recently secured funding from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to support the installation of a Solar Farm at the council’s South Cliff Holiday Park in Bridlington, as well as solar panels…
In a report published today, RenewableUK is urging Ministers to commit to specific deployment targets for onshore wind, floating wind, renewable hydrogen and marine energy, in the run-up to the United Nations’ climate change summit in Glasgow in November. The new document, “Raising the bar: the world-leading…
