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NEW decade begins with Nottingham City Council declaring a climate emergency and urging others to help it meet its ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2028. Following the launch of the citywide charter for sustainable carbon neutrality through the Green Partnership, the Council is now it is setting out a plan of action to help take the city towards...

ENERGY Innovation Centre has announced a new collaboration with Network Rail which will see it support the rail company in continuing to deliver reliable and sustainable power to its infrastructure. Drawing on its international innovation community, and in-house technical experience of working with the UK’s energy networks, the Centre will support Network Rail in finding and exploring a range of solutions...

ENVIRONMENT Minister, Lesley Griffiths has awarded Cardiff Council £21m to implement a series of measures to improve air quality after she approved its revised clean air proposals. In February 2018, the Welsh Government instructed Cardiff Council to undertake a feasibility study to identify measures to address illegal nitrogen dioxide excess in the shortest possible time. In June 2019, Cardiff Council submitted...

POLLUTION from the surface of London’s roads is posing a significant risk to rivers in the capital, a pioneering new study has found. Funded by City Hall, Transport for London and the Environment Agency, the research found that all of the roads involved in the study have the potential to damage local rivers. Christina Calderato, Transport for London's Head of Transport...

Mixergy, an Oxford University cleantech spin-out company, has raised £3.6m in Series A financing to fuel its next stage of growth in developing innovative and efficient hot water tanks to help decarbonise households and reduce consumer energy usage. According to the company, their tanks can save up to 20% on hot water bills, provide up to 30% more usable hot...

A STUDY led by the University of Southampton has mapped several sites in Europe containing gas hydrate, a relatively clean fuel which could help act as a bridge between fossil fuels and renewables. Vast amounts of natural gas are stored in an ice-like form beneath the seabed, under the deep seafloor, close to edge of the landmasses that form our...

WORK is expected to start soon on upgrading street lighting across the Ashford borough in Kent, in an investment likely to cost up to £1 million. While Kent County Council owns and maintains around 90% of street lights across the county, each district council also owns a small number of lights. Ashford Borough Council has around 1,200 street lights and it...

A SIX-WEEK consultation as part of the first steps to create the Greater Cambridge Local Plan seeks input for the council's future road map towards net zero. Questions are being posed around the key themes of climate change, biodiversity and green spaces, well-being and social inclusion and great places – all underpinned by homes, jobs and infrastructure. This will be a...

YORKSHIRE Water is working with Inflowmatix on a new project, as part of its increasing investment into smart networks, which the company hopes will play a key role in its leakage reduction. The two-year scheme will see 650 InflowSense™ devices fitted across the county which will analyse pressure transients at 128 sample points per second. The devices will help Yorkshire Water...

MAYOR of London, Sadiq Khan, together with London Councils and Transport for London, is investing £4 million across 29 boroughs to install 1,000 new electric vehicle charging points in residential areas. This will build on work that has already seen 1,500 charging points installed across the capital to help Londoners without access to off-street parking to have charging access by...