On 18 April, the day before Easter Friday, Modern Water plc reported on the calendar year to 31 December 2018. Overall, the financial figures were rather better than those reported for 2017. Revenue was up by 18 per cent to £4.2 million (2017 £3.5m); gross profit was up by 31 per cent to £2.3m (2017 [...]
It seems that as we could be nearing the closing moments of a long and somewhat sad saga, it would be right to cover the most recent events at PV Crystalox, a solar company which enjoyed profitable activities in the UK and Germany for a number of years. The companymanufactured Multicrystalline silicon ingots and wafers, [...]
As previously foreshadowed (Greenbarrel 6 March) the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) duly released its full Annual Report on 3 April 2019. The Report is the most widely used source of data on the wind energy sector for industry, governments and others. This was the fourteenth Annual report and the presentation has been wholly redesigned. [...]
At the end of February 2019, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released some figures for increases in wind power during 2018. (This was in advance of the release of the full annual report on 3 April) The overall increase in new installed capacity, (51.3 GW) though in line with the average figure for the [...]
On 27 December 2018, AIM-quoted Altona Energy published its latest Annual report on the financial year ending 30 June 2018. Given that Altona listed on AIM as long ago as 2005, things still seem to be at a relatively preliminary stage. The story looks much as it was: Altona is a very small company, with [...]
On Wednesday 12 December, the Financial Times carried an article from Seoul, South Korea, stating that over the next ten years Hyundai, the world’s fifth largest car manufacturer, will commit US$6.7 Billion to the hydrogen economy. The article stated that this will raise their production capacity for fuel-cell systems and cars to 700,000 units a [...]
The transition to electric vehicles (EVs) is going faster than anyone expected. Major Western car manufacturers are now regularly presiding over the launch of electric cars not least because of ever tightening emission requirements. China, too, has made clear its intention to be a world leader. In this field, improved battery performance is crucial. For [...]
In the summer, the press gave prominence to the Mayor of London’s announcement that in 2019 London would see the creationof the largest double-decker electric bus fleet in Europeas 68 new electric double-deckers came into service, thus increasing the number of electric buses ten-fold. But, in a sense, these clean buses are only a means [...]
On Thursday 15 November 2018, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) surprised some observers by its ruling in favour of a case brought by a British clean energy technology company, Tempus Energy, against the European Commission and the British Government over the UK system of managing back-up power. Tempus did not call the capacity market [...]
At the beginning of the week, Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO) released its annual financial report for the year to 30 September 2018. Since the interims (see Greenbarrel 24 May) there has been some evident progress on eg the commissioning of the palm oil mill, and on human rights. But these actions have yet to materially [...]