Biogas/heat pumps/fusion/geothermal & focus on EU & UK ETS

15th September 2023

Looking at the selections this week, two kinds of innovation are featured: First are the “out of the box thinking” type such as the burying of biomass and the fracking energy storage. The second is the Government sponsoring the long term ambitions of the fusion industry, and trying to pick winners. COMPANY NEWS AstraZeneca Partners … Read More

Airship/recycled steel/heat pumps & focus on next gen solar

1st September 2023

I hope that in times to come it will be seen as one of the scandals of our age that governments continued to subsidise fossil fuels even though they were well aware of the damage to climate and health. COMPANY NEWS Octopus acquires Shell EnergyShell has reached an agreement to divest its home energy businesses, … Read More

Smart tariffs/CofE/biodiversity credits/phytoplankton/flywheel & focus on doom loops and tipping points

23rd June 2023

The whole spctrum of the energy transition in one week: Renewables – storage – smart grids – hydrogen planes – ethical investing – biodiversity & carbon credits – air pollution plus more. COMPANY NEWS Adaptogen’s battery fund nets £207m, over-subscribed by 18%Adaptogen Capital said this morning it has attracted £207 million of investors’ pledges to … Read More

Lidar/flexibility/wind/bacteria/hot rocks thermal & focus on the Supreme Court

12th May 2023

Life in the UK can hardly get more exciting: a coronation one weekend, the Eurovision the next! In the spirit of the current weirdly camp national mood I would draw your attention to an entertaining video produced by Vattenfall to promote the only by-product from the manufacture of Green Hydrogen, namely water. They enlist supermodel … Read More

electrolysers/AD/transparent solar panels & focus on global EV sales

6th May 2022

Apoliogies for smaller and late Titbits. Been a busy week UK news Scottish hydrogen network trial gets underwayHydrogen from Grangemouth site to be transported along 29 kilometre section of previously decommissioned gas pipelinesPlans to build a network of hydrogen pipelines across the UK took a step forward today, with the start of a Scottish pilot … Read More

EV of the Year/Net-Zero/Wind/Beef & focus on grid scale batteries

8th January 2021

Let’s start the year by looking back at the best EV’s of 2020. If you haven’t had any experience of electric motoring, you should, so as to understand the demonstrable benefits. Recent research stated that only 1% of EV buyers would look to revert to petrol/diesel for their next car. I suspect that this is … Read More