By Julian Singer In May the H21 project released its Phase 1 report on the safety of replacing natural gas (methane) by hydrogen for residential heating. The hydrogen molecule is much smaller than methane so that there are reasons to fear that hydrogen might leak more easily from the gas network. On the other hand, [...]
By Julian Singer The Climate Change Committee’s 2021 Report to Parliament on progress in reducing carbon emissions was highly critical of the government. While admitting that of all G20 countries the UK has so far achieved the largest reduction in emissions since 1990, and while praising the Climate Change Act (2008), the statutory commitment to [...]
By Julian Singer GWEC India presented its annual report on the Indian wind market on 10 June 2021. India is ranked 4th in terms of world wind power capacity, with 39.2GW installed as of March 2021, all onshore. This, however, is far from the current goal of reaching 450GW of renewable energy capacity by 2030, [...]
By Julian Singer Hydrodec withdrew from AIM on 6 April 2021. It had been suspended on 1 October 2020 because it had been unable to conclude its audit for the previous year, blaming the pandemic and financial constraints. The company is proposing to set up a matched bargain facility for its shares. Hydrodec initially listed [...]
By Julian Singer The Renewable Infrastructure Group (TRIG) was one of the first investment companies listed on the London Stock Exchange to be directed at renewable energy infrastructure projects, having joined in 2013. TRIG invests in onshore and offshore wind farms and solar farms mainly in the UK but also in Europe. In its annual [...]
By Julian Singer Active Energy (AEG) has its headquarters in London and is listed on AIM but currently operates only in North America. It has a history of involvement in forest management but now focusses on two trademarked products (CoalSwitchTM and PeatSwitchTM) that convert woody or peaty biomass into pellets that can replace coal in existing [...]
By Julian SInger Heat Wayv is a private UK company developing a system for domestic hot water and space heating using microwave electricity on the same principle as the microwave oven. The company claims that its boilers will be the same size as conventional gas combi-boilers and with a similar fast response time. As a [...]
By Julian Singer When we last wrote about Highview Power (Greenbarrel, June 2020) the company was embarking on its first commercial electrical storage project at Trafford, Greater Manchester. Now it has eight more “..entering the execution phase this year or next” according to an interview with the CEO, Javier Cavada, in rechargenews.com. Highview is a [...]
By Julian Singer The Porvair group, which specialises in filtration, laboratory and environmental technology, announced at its Annual General Meeting on 20 April that its revenue for the four months to 31 March was only 6 per cent lower than in the same period last year, with some 2 per cent of that due to [...]
By Julian Singer Last October we wrote about the performance of AIM-listed renewable energy stocks (Greenbarrel, Oct 2020). The most striking feature was that most of these stocks had shown a sharp increase in price around the beginning of June. Now, six months later we look at how they have performed since then. As before [...]