The UK's consumption of thermal coal rose 8.5% on the month to 3.76 million mt in September, the highest for three months, according to data released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change Thursday. However the UK's rate of ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Metallurgy
Malaysia-based international offshore oilfield services provider, Bumi Armada Berhad announced today that EnQuest Heather Limited together with EnQuest ENS Limited, First Oil and Gas Limited, Nautical Petroleum Limited and Nautical ...
Today we have the announcement by DECC that EdF will construct the first of the new generation of nuclear plants in the UK. Should we welcome this decision? The contract for this project will provide an electricity price of ...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Energy
LED lighting company Vision Accendo has completed a total refit of airside lighting at Southampton Airport. Vision Accendo director Mark Bigwood said the airport is one of the first in the world to go totally LED airside, with the company ...
Tags: LED lighting, Lights, Lighting
The government has stepped up the process of equipping every home in the UK with smart energy meters by selecting the vendors to provide the kit, the data service and wide area communications, in addition to a smart meter governing ...
Tags: Smart Meter, Instruments
Aspiring communities across the nation will be able to receive Feed-in Tariff (FITs) payments for the clean green energy generated by larger community energy projects, under new plans set out by the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar PV
There were 5,694 sub 50 kW PV installations registered during the week ending 30th June 2013 (similar to levels seen towards the end of July 2012, before a tariff reduction on 1st August 2012), compared to 3,194 in the week ending 23rd ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
The STA has welcomed Government proposals to increase the upper size limit of community projects eligible for the fixed Feed-in Tariff (FIT) from 5MW to 10MW in an amendment tabled by DECC yesterday [1]. The amendment does not stipulate a ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The proportion of UK electricity generated from gas fell to 16-year lows last year as cheaper coal prices spurred generators into increasing coal-fired power to its greatest share of the electricity mix since 1996, government data shows. ...
Tags: Gas-Fired Power, Chemicals
Lighting manufacturer PhotonStar LED Group has generated £8.7m in sales in 2012, up by 44 per cent when compared to the year before. The company’s 2012 sales rose dramatically from £6.06m in 2011, according to the ...
Tags: Photonstar, Lighting
Weekly PV Highlights There were 1,586 sub 50 kW PV installations registered during the week ending 12th May 2013, compared to 1,953 in the week ending 5th May 2013. This now brings the total number of sub 50 kW solar PVs registered ...
Tags: DECC FIT Solar, Energy
The STA is very disappointed that the European Commission has proposed provisional duties on Chinese imported solar panels of between 37% and 67% [1]. The STA opposes the imposition of any duties which restrict free trade and the growth of ...
Tags: STA, Free Trade, Climate Change
Foresight Group (Foresight), the leading independent alternative asset manager with a strategic focus on private equity, infrastructure and environmental, announces the launch of a £20 million fundraising for Foresight Solar EIS Fund ...
UK-based LED lighting company, PhotonStar was awarded a grant by the UK Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for up to £372,269. The grant from the DECC Energy Entrepreneurs Fund and will be used to develop further ...
Tags: LED photonstar, LED
James Mckenzie, CEO of PhotonStar LED Group The PhotonStar LED Group has received a grant from the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to develop a wireless smart lamp for the UK consumer market. DECC's Energy Entrepreneurs ...
Tags: Photonstar, DECC Grant, Lighting