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
Our beloved Government seem to be dropping more balls than Scottish goalkeepers of the 1980’s. It has become so regular that the excuses all sound equally rediculous: “most schools won’t fall down” and “the CfD’s are enabling more projects”. Strewth. COMPANY NEWS H2 Green Steel raises €1.5b for ‘world’s first green steel plant’In the largest … Read More
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
Every week there seems to be a story telling us how the UK is squandering its lead in the race to net-zero, or, at least that we are falling behind our targets in most areas. So as to avoid depressing you all I am away for a couple of weeks, so next episode will be … Read More
One of the great pioneers of the digital and clean energy age, John Goodenough died this week, aged 100. He won the Nobel Prize in 2019 for his work developing the lithium-ion battery, a transformative technology if ever there was one. He also became the oldest winner of the award and quipped that he was … Read More
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
Lancea LLP has worked with Regenerate Asset Management so are delighted to see the announcement of the launch of the fund. We feel that there is scope for the further development of agriculture as an asset class and the increasing development of regenerative practises should accelerate this. COMPANY NEWS Regenerate launches first European regenerative agriculture … Read More
There is a place in the Net Zero world for each of these three: CCS, Nuclear (large and small) and hydrogen, but one must be realistic and not saddle them with the expectation that they can solve the problem. I have covered CCS and nuclear recently. This week we have a good summary of the … Read More
There are a number of countries who are well placed to become major exporters, the UK and Australia are two of them as sories below demonstrate. It is slightly disappointing that neither seem that keen to pick up the baton UK NEWS Sainsbury’s cuts ribbon on ‘most energy-efficient supermarket ever’Sainsbury’s has today officially opened its … Read More
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
