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| May 29, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: David raises $75m, Alt Carbon nets $12m, Deere scoops up Sentera | Agrifood’s biggest round this week was a Series A for protein bar maker David, which also announced it had bought ingredients firm Epogee. Insect-based aquaculture feed producer Volare secured funds to build a new factory in Finland, and In... |
| Apr 17, 2025 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Mombak lands $17m in debt, ClearCOGS secures $3.8m, OlsAro bags $2.8m | This week carbon-removal-focused startup Mombak raised capital to expand reforestation efforts in the Amazon, Chicago-based restaurant predictive analytics provider ClearCOGS closed a seed round, and Swedish startup OlsAro raised funds to e... |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Mars Teams Up With Einride To Deploy 300 Heavy-Duty Electric Trucks Across Europe by 2030 | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 24 January 2024, 01:01 pm |
| Jan 24, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Vegan Mickey Mouse, Price Changes & Labelling Wins | 7 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Oatly’s new partnership with Carvel, price fluctuations for m... |
| Dec 6, 2023 | ACX and Sylvera partner to broaden access to high-quality carbon credit investment and trading | Carbon data provider and exchange collaborate to launch a standardized contract of highly-rated carbon credits, promoting quality in the market.
The credits will be available for trading on ACX's exchange.
It is the first step in the p... |
| Oct 24, 2023 | Net Zero Pioneers: 50 UK businesses at the cutting edge of the net zero transition revealed ahead of Net Zero Festival | Net Zero Pioneers Report: Co-founders of Olio, Saasha Celestial-One and Tessa Clarke
Exclusive Net Zero Pioneers Report commissioned by the Net Zero Festival, which will take place 31st Oct-1st Nov 2023 at the Business Design Centre, London... |
| Sep 15, 2023 | UK Grants Licenses to Oil Companies for Carbon Storage in North Sea | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 15 September 2023, 01:09 pm
The UK government has given authorization for several oil companies to store carbon emissions in depleted oil and gas areas beneath the North Sea.
With an emphasis on capturing carbon dioxi... |
| Feb 7, 2023 | Australia’s Recharge gets ready to buy Britishvolt | Recharge Industries is close to acquiring the assets of the insolvent battery start-up Britishvolt. The auditing firm EY, which is in charge of the insolvency administration, expects to complete the deal is expected to be completed within t... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Amazon buys record 8.3GW of renewable energy in 2022 | Amazon claims to have broken a clean energy procurement record, after purchasing 8.3GW of wind and solar power in 2022.
The tech giant today announced it had secured more renewable energy in 2022 than any other company had bought in a year,... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | First Charging Corridor for Heavy-Duty Electric Trucks in Europe Opens | April Fowell, Tech Times 24 January 2023, 10:01 pm
BP Pulse launches the first charging corridor for medium and heavy-duty electric trucks in Europe, according to Electrek.
(Photo : JURE MAKOVEC/AFP via Getty Images)
Trucks drive on a Highw... |
| Jan 18, 2023 | Britishvolt: Battery gigafactory hopeful enters administration | Plans for a flagship electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing plant could be approaching the end of the road, after the start-up behind the ambitious project entered administration on Tuesday.
Britishvolt confirmed yesterday that EY has ... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | 2022 – A Tech Nation Year in Review | Hello everyone! We hope you’re all excited to have a wonderful and restful festive period.
Before we get into all of the exciting things we have in store for 2023, we wanted to take one last look back at 2022 and all the incredible things ... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | The Biggest Battery Storage in Europe Goes With a Tesla Megapack Goes Live | April Fowell, Tech Times 22 November 2022, 10:11 am
A 98MW capacity battery energy storage, the Pillswood project, located near Hull, finally went live. The project was developed by Harmony Energy Limited and is the biggest battery energy s... |
| Nov 21, 2022 | Vodafone launches new refurbished phone range | Vodafone has launched a new refurbished phone range designed to help customers save money and reduce their carbon footprint.
The mobile operator said the move made it the UK's only major network to offer a two-year warranty on every pa... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Microsoft and Salesforce step up climate data efforts | Microsoft has unveiled a fresh wave of expanded efforts to harness better data and AI to boost climate resilience and adaptation efforts in Africa, in a bid to address what the tech giant described as a "significant lack" of relia... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Apple confident in becoming net zero by 2030 | Could Apple - one of the world's largest, most successful, and most visible companies - really become a fully net zero business by the end of the decade? The tech giant is increasingly confident it can, and this week unveiled a sweepin... |
| Oct 14, 2022 | Sage acquires carbon accounting firm Spherics | Business software specialist Sage has this week announced the acquisition of Spherics, a firm specialising in carbon accounting, in a move designed to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) more easily understand and reduce their env... |
| Oct 6, 2022 | BT and Cisco expand business e-waste takeback service | BT has today significantly expanded its global e-waste programme for business customers, announcing it has teamed up with networking giant Cisco to offer a new circular economy service.
The two tech giants said that under the partnership, c... |
| Jun 13, 2022 | Green search engine Ecosia sees jump in user numbers | Green search engine Ecosia has seen an increase in active users to 20 million, the not-for-profit venture announced this week.
With highest usage in Germany, France, UK, and the US, the growing user base is also reflected in the carbon nega... |
| Jun 10, 2022 | May 2022: a month in review with Tech Nation CEO | This article is also available on Linkedin.
Hello. Lots to share and celebrate this month. Some highlights:
An epic new report looking at the last 10 years in UK Tech in partnership with Google For Startups
Launch of GBxAsia – a new networ... |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Tech giants launch $925m fund to kickstart efforts to suck CO2 from the air | A clutch of the world's largest tech firms have teamed up to launch a pioneering multi-billion dollar fund aimed at bringing carbon removal start-ups to scale and reducing the costs of drawing CO2 from the atmosphere.
The Frontier Fund... |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Britishvolt announces investment, plans Northumberland battery 'gigafactory' | Battery cell developer Britishvolt has announced plans to raise another £200 million to support its plans to develop the UK's electric vehicle (EV) battery ecosystem, confirming it has already secured £40 million towards its fund-raisi... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | UK government announces £116m fund to develop green technologies | The UK government has promised a new £116 million cash injection for green technology innovation, aiming to boost job creation as well as delivering on ambitious net zero goals.
Carbon capture technologies, energy efficiency innovators, and... |
| Nov 11, 2021 | Navigating to Zero with Startup Innovations in Sustainability | A call to action is changing the future of business. Regulatory committees, investors, consumers, and employees increasingly call for more socially, environmentally, and economically responsible goods and services.
The market is seeing cons... |
| Oct 26, 2021 | Olam food ingredients (ofi), Mondelēz International, Partnerships for Forests and The Nature Conservancy scale up efforts to restore forest in the Amazon | London/ São Paulo
olam food ingredients (ofi), a global leader in natural and sustainable ingredients and solutions, Mondelēz International, Partnerships for Forests (P4F) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) ("the partners") have ann... |
| Oct 14, 2021 | The supply-chain crisis is wreaking havoc with advertisers’ Q4 plans | Hello and welcome back to Insider Advertising, your weekly look at the biggest stories and trends affecting Madison Avenue and beyond. I’m Lara O’Reilly, Insider’s media and advertising editor. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here.
Ha... |
| Oct 8, 2021 | Can We Avoid ‘COP Then Stop’ And Make Carbon Commitments Stick? | COP26, the United Nations' 26th Climate Change Conference, will be held in early November of this ... [+] year in Glasgow, under the UNFCCC presidency of the United Kingdom. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| Sep 10, 2021 | England to Introduce Legislation That Will Require Newly Built Homes and Office to Have EV Chargers | Sophie Webster, Tech Times 10 September 2021, 08:09 pm
(Photo : GettlyImages/ SOPA Images ) Tesla car
England will require new homes and offices to feature electric vehicle chargers as part of the legislation that the British government wil... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | REN Clean Skincare Debuts Zero-Waste Aluminum Tube | 4 Mins Read
In keeping with its Zero Waste pledge, beauty brand REN Clean Skincare launched a sample tube made from 100% recycled aluminum, a first-of-its-kind sample that aims to prevent nonrecyclable or difficult-to-recycle mixed-material... |
| May 18, 2021 | SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SE
Schneider Electric : Meeting net zero homes regulation with confidence | Households have both a direct and indirect impact on the environment. A house takes up physical real estate; it produces heat, noise and - in today's digital age - a low level of electromagnetic interference from a bevy of connected de... |
| Mar 7, 2021 | Burger King U.K. Says 50% Menu Will Be Plant-Based By 2031 | 4 Mins Read
In line with its long-term commitment to reduce its carbon footprint, Burger King U.K. has recently announced that it will launch vegan and vegetarian burgers, for instance, a plant-based version of its chicken ‘Royale’ burger i... |
| Feb 26, 2021 | New Survey Shows Rise Of CSO Roles In Financial Services | Last November, when Britain’s Prince Charles urged the world’s leading businesses to appoint and empower chief sustainability officers, many organizations had already embraced the idea of social and environmental responsibility. What wasn’t... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Coventry wants to create battery production hub | In addition to the cell factory planned by Britishvolt, another battery ‘gigafactory’ could be built in England at the airport of the industrial city of Coventry. The Coventry city council announced intentions to develop corresponding plans... |
| Oct 27, 2020 | The GEO Carbon Offset Contract: A Giant Leap For Mankind | International airlines from certain countries have signed the CORSIA treaty, which requires them to ... [+] offset greenhouse gas emissions for their international flights.Wikipedia.org |
| Oct 5, 2020 | Why Investors Hold The Key To A More Sustainable Planet | Since the first Climate Change Summit in 1979, we’ve been approaching this very precipice at an alarming speed. There’s been ample warning, whether from scientists, such as James Hansen, or activists, including the much-adored David Attenbo... |
| Sep 10, 2020 | Will This Strategy From Tommy Hilfiger End Fast Fashion And Bring Fashion Circularity To Life? | |
| Aug 12, 2020 | Corporate innovation weekly: Chinese craft beer, clean beauty, lossmaking mobility | Beauty Saie what?
Unilever joined forces with Gwyneth Paltrow in investing in the seed funding round for “clean” makeup brand Saie, which launches in November. The brand was started by blogger Laney Crowell, who formerly worked at Estée Lau... |
| Jul 23, 2020 | Why Haven’t E-Commerce Firms Started Carbon Labeling Yet? | Should each product sold on e-commerce sites be carbon labeled?getty |
| Jun 24, 2020 | The pandemic has shifted the focus towards tech and renewable energy — here are 10 promising sectors for investment, according to fund managers | Stock markets have been volatile during the pandemic, and fund managers are spotting new opportunities.
The coronavirus outbreak has accelerated the shift to a tech-focused economy, they say.
Many sectors have lost out, but others — includi... |
| Jun 19, 2020 | BP Takes A $17.5 Billion Hit As Giant Ditches Oil Exploration Projects | KATWIJK, NETHERLANDS - APRIL 26: A BP logo is pictured outside its gasoline stand on April 26, 2020 ... [+] in Katwijk, Netherlands. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Jun 3, 2020 | RaRE project creates rare earth magnets from scrap | The British research project RaRE has set itself the goal of setting up a continuous supply chain to integrate recycled rare earth magnets into electric vehicles. Bentley is one of the companies involved in the project, which is led by HyPr... |
| Apr 2, 2020 | SAP SE
A New Normal: Rethinking Engagement With Customers and Employees | For Brian Duffy, the new normal is a world where a virus is creating a downturn in the global economy while at the same time lowering CO2 emissions in some cities and countries.
Duffy, president of SAP EMEA North and a member of the company... |
| Mar 20, 2019 | Tech.eu Podcast #110: Spotify vs. Apple, solar power funding on the rise, ethics in AI, unicorn M&A trends, interview with the EC’s Carlos Moedas, and more | Tech.eu Podcast hosted by Natalie Novick and Andrii Degeler is a show in which we discuss some of the most interesting stories from the European technology scene and interview leading entrepreneurs and investors from across the region.
You ... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Climate Change and National Security, Part III: The Problem of Political Will | Scientific and public understanding of climate change has evolved considerably since the late 1980s, when evidence of a changing climate first rose to public prominence. Since then, scientists have observed strong evidence of warming itself... |
| Apr 30, 2018 | Fund manager: $300 oil is 'not impossible' within a few years | Advertisement
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Leading oil hedge fund manager, Pierre Andurand, said that $300 per barrel oil is "not impossible" within the next few years.
Lack of investment in new production due to low oil prices and fears ... |
| Nov 24, 2016 | How will the Paris climate agreement change your day-to-day life? | How will the Paris climate agreement change your day-to-day life?
24-11-2016
Dr Chris Hope, Reader in Policy Modelling at Cambridge Judge Business School, considers some of the less obvious ways the Paris climate agreement could change your... |
| Apr 22, 2016 | Earth Day - some reflections | Earth Day - some reflections
22-04-2016
Today, April 22, is Earth Day. The Scientific Alliance looks at how perceptions have changed since 1970.
Launched in the USA in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day follows the proposal the previ... |
| Feb 5, 2016 | Perception and reality: surveys can be misleading | Perception and reality: surveys can be misleading
05-02-2016
Opinion surveys often gather emotional rather than objective responses, says The Scientific Alliance.
People make much of opinion surveys to back up their arguments. But even the ... |
| Dec 18, 2015 | End of year consensus | End of year consensus
18-12-2015
There is a growing consensus on the need to innovate in the energy sector, says The Scientific Alliance.
The COP21 jamboree in Paris is done and dusted. But, not surprisingly, the outcome has in practice cha... |
| May 22, 2015 | The carbon bubble | The carbon bubble
22-05-2015
Talk of a carbon bubble is grossly exaggerated, says The Scientific Alliance.
As the year-end Paris climate change summit draws ever nearer, preparatory meetings continue apace and we see a stream of reports and... |
| May 15, 2015 | Green and blue politics | Green and blue politics
15-05-2015
What to expect from the new government on environmental policy
Martin Livermore writes:
Last week, readers who take an interest in such things would have been coming terms with the biggest surprise in UK p... |
| May 1, 2015 | Selling green policies | Selling green policies
01-05-2015
Morality is increasingly being used to sell environmental policies, says The Scientific Alliance.
The Green Party may be something of a sideshow as far as the current UK election is concerned, but we should... |
| Feb 20, 2015 | Tinkering at the edges of energy use | Tinkering at the edges of energy use
20-02-2015
EU energy policy should be addressing bigger issues, says The Scientific Alliance.
This week, BP has published its latest Energy Outlook 2035, which analyses likely global energy use in 20 yea... |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Unilever Takes A Step Toward Sustainable Palm Oil | A palm oil plantation in Malaysia. Photo via Marufish/Flickr
It's a step forward in using sustainably-sourced palm oil, and reining in the massive rainforest destruction generally associated with palm oil production: Unilever has annou... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | SolarCity and Honda Pair up to Drive more Solar Installations | The car business is famous for incentives. Now Honda, one of the first and most innovative EV makers , is teaming up with SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) on a unique incentive to bring low- or no-cost solar to its customers. |
| Nov 2, 2012 | Securing future energy supplies | Securing future energy supplies
02-11-2012
The purchase by Hitachi of the Horizon nuclear consortium from E.On and RWE is good news, but we still risk a long period of energy insecurity.
This week, in a move which took most people by surpri... |
| Mar 9, 2012 | Energy: low carbon, renewable or both? | Energy: low carbon, renewable or both?
09-03-2012
A report on the costs of low carbon and renewable energy originally commissioned by KPMG has now been published by AF Consult. What does this add to the debate? This week's Scientific A... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | Carbon bubble or green investment bubble? | Carbon bubble or green investment bubble?
05-03-2012
Recently, there has been talk of a ‘carbon bubble’. The argument is that many energy companies are significantly overvalued on the basis of their reserves of coal, oil and gas, since clim... |
| Dec 2, 2011 | Environmentalism in a recession | Environmentalism in a recession
02-12-2011
Comment from the Scientific Alliance on changing priorities as times get tough.
Environmentalism in a recession
As Europe at least is in danger of sliding back into recession (or worse), how does t... |
| Oct 14, 2011 | Scientific Alliance newsletter 14th October 2011 | Scientific Alliance newsletter 14th October 2011
14-10-2011
Is a crime of ecocide really needed?
Planetary Rights
Never heard of ecocide? You may become more familiar with it if international lawyer Polly Higgins gets her way (see Ecocide l... |
| Sep 14, 2010 | On the GreenBeat: SG Biofuels gets $9.4 million in first round, Toyota to launch six new hybrids by 2012 | In its $9.4 million first-round financing, SG Biofuels has attracted the backing of a subsidiary of Koch Industries – the first time the oil and agriculture conglomerate has invested in biofuels. SG Biofuels makes fuel from the inedible see... |
| EGEB: The largest solar farm in the US has been approved | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
The $1 billion Gemini project solar farm in Nevada has been approved by the US government.
India’s CO2 emissions drop for the first time in 40 years.
Majority of British want weekly car-free da... |
| EGEB: World’s first net zero McDonald’s opens — at Walt Disney World | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
The world’s first net zero emissions McDonald’s opens in Florida.
Construction work has begun in the UK on the world’s longest subsea power cable, to run between the UK and Denmark.
Houston iss... |
| England will be first country to require new homes to include EV chargers | The British government will introduce legislation in 2021 that will require all newly built homes and offices to feature electric vehicle chargers in England.
Home and EV chargers in England
Specifically, all new homes and offices will have... |
| Modular homes were hailed as a solution to housing crises. But the sector is now struggling to scale | More energy-efficient homes, less materials waste and lower carbon emissions in the construction process are among the sustainable advantages of modular housing.
However, the sector remains relatively nascent in the U.K. and U.S. versus the... |
| EGEB: Companies from Danone to Bayer call for French green recovery plan | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Multinationals call for an “ecological transition” in France’s COVID-19 economic recovery.
Sweden erects the first wooden wind turbine.
Total said it will become net zero by 2050 — but investor... |
| Scotland’s offshore wind auction results in ‘historic’ 17 leases with massive 25 GW of capacity | Crown Estate Scotland, which held Scotland’s largest-ever auction of offshore wind permits, today announced that it has selected 17 projects out of 74 applications in its ScotWind Leasing round.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links ... |
| England will be first country to require new homes to include EV chargers [Update] | The British government has introduced legislation that will require all newly built homes and offices to feature electric vehicle chargers in England.
November 22 update: “New homes and buildings such as supermarkets and workplaces, as well... |
| EGEB: Trump administration hits solar, wind with retroactive rent bills | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
The Trump administration has ended a rent holiday for solar and wind projects on federal lands.
EY’s latest study predicts a strong recovery for the renewables sector from coronavirus.
Democrat... |
| EGEB: Starbucks solar stores, Iowa voters on climate, crowdfunding a wind farm, and more | In today’s EGEB:
Starbucks partners with Cypress Creek Renewables to power Texas stores with solar farms.
Iowa Democratic voters list climate change second on a list of important issues.
A report takes note of GOP-backed anti-wind bills.
Cr... |
| Wind, solar, EVs, can prevent catastrophic climate change, says new IPCC report | In the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today, there’s good news and bad news. We’re spotlighting the good news: EVs and clean energy can help us limit climate change.
The good news in the IPCC repor... |
| EGEB: Kids coaxed LEGO into making a big sustainable change | LEGO switches to recyclable paper bags in its toy sets (and they’re working on their plastic bricks).
Enevate achieves more than 300 Li-ion battery patents, far surpassing its competitors.
175-year-old Scientific American magazine has never... |
| EGEB: UK gets its first road made partially from plastic | Construction of the UK’s first road made partially from plastic has begun in Carlisle.
An EV coalition (but not Tesla) asked congressional leaders for help in the latest stimulus package.
EV alliance ChargeUp Europe gains Portugal’s energy ... |
| EGEB: London Underground could be on 100% green energy by 2030 | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
The London Underground could be entirely powered by green energy and become net zero by 2030.
A new UN report says that a switch to efficient air conditioning could make a huge dent in emission... |
| EGEB: Oil and gas giant Equinor pledges to become net zero | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Equinor is the latest European fossil-fuel giant to announce a new net zero emissions goal.
The US quits the Paris Agreement tomorrow — here’s what happens next.
Convenience-store chain Wawa ho... |
| EGEB: 440 US oil and gas leases canceled to protect sage-grouse | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Montana court strikes down 440 oil and gas leases in the West to protect the sage-grouse.
9 million renewable jobs per year could be created for five years for less than the US spent in two mon... |
| EGEB: Fort Bragg gets the largest floating solar in the US southeast | The US Army’s Fort Bragg, NC, will soon host the largest floating solar plant in the Southeast
20% of US homes use 45% of all cooling consumption nationwide, according to Sense.
The UK’s National Health System becomes the world’s first heal... |
| EGEB: Exxon plans to increase emissions — leaked documents | Bloomberg reports that Exxon plans to actually increase its emissions, according to internal documents.
A New York state senator has introduced legislation requiring zero emissions for new vehicles by 2035.
The UK’s Octopus Energy will crea... |
| EV sales rising ahead of schedule in EU & UK, predicted to overtake gasoline vehicles by 2025 | Efforts by automakers and legislators overseas appear to be paying off, as a new study found that consumers’ transition to all-electric vehicles in the EU and UK is “inevitable.” Due to commitments from automakers, tighter regulations on CO... |
| EGEB: Here’s how Americans can lower big energy bills this summer | Americans are staying home more this summer, resulting in high energy bills.
Parcel giant DPD goes full throttle with EVs in the UK.
Scotland unveils plans to decarbonize passenger rail services by 2035.
Arcadia Power is committed to making... |
| Blockchain This Week: Infibeam, Primechain To Develop Blockchain Invoicing Platform And More | Global auditing major EY has now launched EY Smart Contract Analyzer, a smart contract testing and security service for the public ethereum blockchain.
According to the company’s official blog post, the service, which is now entering a priv... |
| EGEB: South Australia runs on 100% solar for the first time | South Australia becomes the first major jurisdiction in the world to be powered entirely by solar.
The solar industry reacted positively on the stock market after Biden endorsed clean energy in debates.
Japan, the world’s third-largest econ... |
| EGEB: Pope gives Trump climate change letter, World’s largest solar plant financed, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
The Pope gave Donald Trump a 192-page letter he wrote on climate change – encyclical (a papal letter), titled Laudato Si... |
| EGEB: Wind energy pioneer dies, Israel’s green tech pros and cons, Sunrise Movement, more | In today’s EGEB:
Wind energy pioneer Steve Sawyer dies.
Stationary energy storage installations surge as costs drop.
The pros and cons of Israel’s sustainability efforts.
How the Sunrise Movement fueled serious action on climate change.
Ele... |
| Green energy predicted to have strong COVID-19 recovery — EY study | EY has published its annual “Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index,” which “ranks the top 40 countries in the world on the attractiveness of their renewable energy investment and deployment opportunities.” There have been some inter... |
| EGEB: LG NeON R solar panels at 20.8%, Macron (and Putin?!) pushing green, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news
Russia Tells the UN It Wants to Produce More Renewable Energy while Macron tells Trump he will protect what was made in P... |
| EGEB: Europe smashes renewable records through May | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Europe has smashed green energy use records this spring due to good weather and COVID-19.
BP announces today that it will cut 15% of its workforce.
UK energy giant OVO Energy will have an all-e... |
| EGEB: Oxford University unveils fossil-fuel divestment strategy | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Oxford University will divest its multi-billion-pound endowment from fossil fuel assets.
Petersberg Climate Dialogue: Don’t use taxpayer money to save fossil fuels.
Nestlé UK makes a 15-year wi... |
| EGEB: US spends most on stimulus but least on green energy | The US has spent the most stimulus money compared to other major economies — and the least on green energy.
The UK government marks World EV Day today with a £12 million funding tech competition package.
Big Mattress company Tempur Sealy em... |
| EGEB: Fossil fuels, renewables fund Great American Outdoors Act | Congress passed the Great American Outdoors Act, which will fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Coronavirus pandemic shutdowns led to increased solar output, finds new MIT study.
Oxford, UK, is trialing an e-refuse collection vehicle... |
| EGEB: Scotland’s largest whiskey producer to install 4 MW solar farm | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Drinks giant Diageo has submitted a planning application for an onsite, 4 MW solar farm in Scotland.
The Kitty Hawk offshore wind project off North Carolina moves another step forward.
Understa... |
| Cambridge launches driverless electric shuttle buses | The first driverless electric shuttle buses hit the roads in the city of Cambridge in the UK yesterday as part of ground-breaking trials.
Cambridge driverless electric shuttle buses
The Aurrigo Auto-Shuttle will operate on a two-mile route ... |
| EGEB: How will Amazon’s Bezos Earth Fund spend its $10B by 2030? | The Bezos Earth Fund’s new CEO Andrew Steer says it will spend its $10 billion by 2030, but he hasn’t yet provided a road map.
EV charging industry association ChargeUp Europe gains its 13th member, Portugal’s Power Dot.
UnderstandSolar is ... |
| EGEB: Europe’s North Sea is getting a huge floating wind turbine | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
A large floating offshore wind turbine project is under way in the North Sea.
HSBC: Green stocks are more resilient during the coronavirus pandemic.
Green energy made up 52% of Germany’s power ... |
| UK chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor secures record £182m in government and private funding | The record investment aims to expand Pragmatic's production capacity in north-east England to meet rising demand.
The equity deal, the largest ever for a European semiconductor company, values Pragmatic, founded in 2010, at about £500 ... |
| EGEB: Hottest July in recorded history, Diageo spends $220m on green energy in Africa, eco union jobs, more | In today’s EGEB:
July 2019 was the hottest month in recorded history — everywhere.
Drinks giant Diageo goes green in Africa.
Presidential candidate Jay Inslee: Clean-energy jobs would be “good-paying union jobs.”
How a small English soccer ... |
| London’s mayor launches City Hall-owned green energy company | London mayor Sadiq Khan has today formally launched London Power, which is owned by City Hall. It will provide 100% green energy to its customers.
London Power is powered by Octopus Energy, the only “Which? Approved” energy supplier in the ... |
| EGEB: A great breakthrough for solar panel recycling | Researchers discover an eco-friendly way to recycle silicon — used in solar panels — into nanoparticles.
South Korea will increase the number of EVs from the current 110,000 to 1.13 million by 2025.
A Scottish distillery has designed a “cli... |
