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BANGOR University has announced that 100% of its electricity is now supplied from guaranteed renewable sources. The switch to renewable energy is part of the university's Sustainable University programme. Professor Oliver Turnbull, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Chair of the University’s Sustainability Strategy Group, said: "This is fantastic news. Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do at Bangor, and this...

NEW network at Stirling is the first in the UK to use a mix of renewable technologies to harness energy from waste water. The £6 million partnership project was delivered in collaboration with Scottish Water Horizons (SWH), with Stirling Council. It will bring heat to the city and provide low carbon electricity to the Scottish Water Treatment Works. Stirling Council will own and...

NORTHERN Powergrid has become the first Distribution Network Operator in the UK to announce its intent to procure local flexibility via e-auction. Northern Powergrid is looking to procure flexibility for network resilience via a Dynamic Purchasing System and e-auction, the electricity distribution business for North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire revealed today. The company will conclude each competition with a reverse...

WESTERN Power Distribution has become the first Distribution Network Operator (DNO) to use technology originally designed to connect networks between countries to connect isolated circuits. Technologies like the company's Flexible Power Link (FPL) are usually used by transmission companies but, as part of the company's £13m Network Equilibrium project, it was used to connect two 33kV circuits that were electrically...

COVENTRY has been named in the top three of a national league table highlighting the towns and cities with the most electric vehicle charge points. With more than 150 charge points, the city comes third in the standings, with only London and Milton Keynes having more. Councillor Patricia Hetherton, Coventry City Council’s Cabinet Member for City Services, believes it’s important Coventry...

WATFORD Council wants to support more people to consider getting an electric vehicle with several schemes, including cars that the public can hire. As part of its commitment to support green transport, Watford Borough Council is working in partnership with E-Car Club to offer residents electric vehicles for hire from the town centre. Two electric Renault ZOE 40KwH hatchbacks are parked...

NEW collaboration will see Unilever receive tonnes of recycled plastic from Viridor’s £65m Avonmouth Resource Recovery Centre near Bristol. The companies, both founding members of the UK Plastics Pact, have agreed an initial five-year contract for recycled plastic from the plant which is powered by non-recyclable waste through Viridor’s new £252m Avonmouth Energy Recovery Facility. Keith Trower, Viridor Resource Management Managing...

PLANS to develop a solar farm and one of the first carbon neutral industrial sites in the country are due to be considered today by Leicestershire County Council. The solar farm based on Barrow Road would generate almost 10 megawatts of electricity a year - enough to power County Hall, which provides a working environment for more than 3,000 members...

WIND turbines are being given a new lease of life in a partnership to refurbish and remanufacture components that may otherwise end up in landfill. Collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and Renewable Parts Limited (RPL), a Renfrew-based independent supply chain specialist of wind turbine components, aims to help fuel a greener after-market. Dr Fiona Sillars, Knowledge Exchange Manager from Strathclyde...

Today Ofgem has announced its final decision on its Targeted Charging Review, which has received a mixed reaction from the Solar Trade Association (STA). The regulator is modernising electricity network charging through two closely-linked reviews: The Access and forward-looking charges review is looking at the ‘forward-looking charges’ which sends signals to users about the effect of their behaviour, encouraging them to...