Batteries/solar/wind/heat pumps/DRS/SMR & focus on EV charging

2nd February 2024

Focus is on EV charging this week. Whilst compiling it I got to wondering about whether the public charging network and charger availability is keeping up with EV ownership. I am guessing that quite a percentage of readers own an EV. My sense is that there is more competition for charger time than there was … Read More

Anaerobic Digestion/zero bills/VAWT’s/solar in space & focus on Nuclear News

10th November 2023

This week we look into the future; a future full of offshore turbines leaning into the wind, solar panels in space, EV’s charging in 10 minutes and fusion reactors suppling our baseload… I’m not sure that all of these future scenarios will actually transpire, but maybe we won’t need them if the more prosaic technologies … Read More

EV Charging/Batteries/methanol/supercapacitors & focus on landscape remediation

27th October 2023

Ever get the sense that the Government giveth with one hand and taketh with the other? In a long expected but much delayed announcement last weekend DEFRA said that England and Wales would get compulsory weekly food waste collections from 2026. For the AD industry, definitely a “giveth”. COMPANY NEWS Northvolt eyes US$20bn Stockholm IPOSwedish … Read More

Green Steel/Tyre recycling/Concentrated Solar

8th September 2023

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

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