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YORKSHIRE Water are partnering Arqiva and Sensus in a second smart meter trial, which they hope could play a key role in their leakage reduction strategy, ensuring security of supply into the future and saving up to 250,000 litres of water per burst. Around 1000 Meters will be deployed on commercial properties and will remotely send 15 minute water flow...

TO MEET Sustainable Development Goal 7 by 2030, countries must safeguard their gains and hasten efforts to achieve affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. Despite accelerated progress over the past decade, the world will fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy by 2030 unless efforts are scaled up significantly, according to the...

THE INSTITUTIONAL Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) has launched new guidance for investors, setting out how they can integrate the risks and opportunities presented by the physical impacts of climate change into their investment processes. Leading investors have contributed to the work from IIGCC, developed with specialist consultants Acclimatise and Chronos Sustainability, and support of the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Stephanie Pfeifer,...

THE BUREAU of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), with the UK and its Italian partners, agreed today new dates for the COP26 UN climate conference, which will now take place between 1 and 12 November 2021 in Glasgow. The agreement followed consultation with UNFCCC members, delivery partners and the international...

TENS of thousands of young people, parents, teachers and carers are participating in a mass programme of scientific discovery and communication across the UK while access to schools is limited. This year’s Great Science Share for Schools campaign has registered over 45,000 young people during the COVID-19 lockdown to share their scientific questions and home investigations on things they’re curious about. The...

BUSINESS Secretary Alok Sharma has granted consent today for what is set to be the largest solar park ever constructed in the UK. Cleve Hill Solar Park on the north Kent coast will generate up to 350MW to power over 91,000 homes, reduce the UK’s dependence on fossil fuels and lower CO2 emissions by 68,000 tonnes a year. The subsidy-free project is...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has launched its first environmental sustainability strategy, setting out its ambition to achieve ‘net-zero’ by 2040. The strategy sets out the organisation’s priorities to lead the way in environmental sustainability across the research and innovation sector, following the UK government’s commitment to end the country’s contribution to global warming by 2050. Professor Sir Duncan Wingham, Executive...

NATIONAL Grid Gas Transmission (NGGT) and National Grid Electricity Transmission NGET have become the latest members of the European Network for Cyber Security. NGGT owns and operates the high-pressure gas transmission network in Great Britain and, as the Gas System Operator is responsible for ensuring that supply and demand are balanced in real time on a day-to-day basis. NGET owns the...

THE APPLICATION to build Sizewell C, a new nuclear power station in Suffolk, has been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate. If approved, Sizewell C will supply energy to around six million homes. The Development Consent Order application was deferred for two months in recognition of the extraordinary circumstances created by the coronavirus. Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson CBE, Managing Director of Sizewell C, commented on...

CADENT, National Grid, NGN, SGN, and Wales & West Utilities are calling on the Government to unlock over £900m investment in green gas network infrastructure across the country to kick start the development of the world's first zero carbon gas grid. The call comes as Energy Networks Association (ENA) publishes new research showing that if investment into zero carbon hydrogen...