“Think Smaller” might seem an odd slogan for a company yet to make its first profit. It does, however, reflect succinctly two aspects of Velocys’s business. Velocys provides the reactors that are the key components of gas-to-liquids (GTL) and biomass-to liquids (BTL) processing plants. They believe the main market for this technology is in plants [...]
At first sight you might think that a 10 MW onshore wind farm and a 10 MW solar array would produce the same electrical power. Far from it. In the UK, the wind farm should produce nearly three times the amount of electricity over a year. Why the big difference? It all comes down to [...]
Altona last appeared in Greenbarrel in February 2014. Since then there have been a lot of changes but little progress. Altona hold licenses to explore the large Arckaringa coal deposits that lie below an uninhabited area of South Australia some 600 miles NW of Adelaide. At the time the licences were acquired in 2005 the [...]
Mytrah Energy have announced plans to raise between $200m - $400m to finance the expansion of their Indian wind and solar projects. $100m will be used to pay an early investor who is leaving (IFDC). Several methods for raising the funds have been mentioned: a new public offering, private equity and the establishment of an [...]
Ceres Power has announced that Nissan will join a consortium to develop a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) for electric vehicles. The consortium, which was announced in March, will receive £772,000 from Innovate UK and the Office for Low Emission Vehicles. Ceres Power will lead the group, which also includes M-Solv, an expert in laser [...]
Ilika have released their final results for the year to 30 April 2016, reporting a decreased revenue of £0.6m (2014: £1.1m) – almost all from a single grant - and an increased loss of £3.5m (2014: £2.7m). The share price dropped nearly 15 per cent to 45p. Ilika specialise in the rapid development of new [...]
Accsys Technologies have announced much improved results for the year to March 2016. They still show a small loss (€0.5m vs €7.7m loss in 2015) but revenue is growing (€52.8m vs €46.1m in 2015) and underlying earnings are positive for the first time in many years. Several promising projects to increase capacity have been started. [...]
Fracking is blamed for many things but in Oklahoma, one of the most fracked regions of the world, the recent increase in the number of small earthquakes has a different origin. Before 2010 there were virtually no such events but in 2015 there were more than 2500 with magnitude 2.5 or greater on the Richter [...]