Drax Group’s main claim to fame in recent years is that it has transformed itself from being an entirely coal-to-energy producer to a largely renewable power provider. Last month (August) the company announced that it had switched on its fourth biomass (wood pellets) generating unit at its power station in North Yorkshire. The company said [...]
“There is no evidence that carbon removal could serve as a viable alternative to emissions reduction” This article first appeared in Climate News Network BY ALEX KIRBY Carbon removal from the atmosphere cannot match reducing emissions of greenhouse gases as a way of slowing global warming, US analysts say. LONDON, 10 September, 2018 – New studies from [...]
We last wrote about SIMEC Atlantis Energy, when it was known as Atlantis Resources, last November before it went into suspension pending a reverse takeover. At that point the company was riding high on its plans for growing its tidal stream turbine projects. Atlantis was founded more than a decade ago. It has been quoted [...]
One the way down: China’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling. Image: By Kristoferb, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared in Climatenewsnetwork.net a partner website to Greenbarrel,com By Kieran Cooke LONDON, – Say it softly, but a look at China’s falling emissions of carbon dioxide may suggest that there could be some good news on the climate [...]
On 16 August 2018 Green & Smart Holdings, the renewable energy group that produces biogas from waste in Malaysia, put out a number of statements that shareholders were probably nervously awaiting. The AIM listed company’s shares had been suspended for some months (and its sharp price totally becalmed) because the company had been dilatory in [...]
What is it about small renewable/alternative energy groups, quoted on London’s AIM, that focus on fuel cells-to-power? The fuel cell is said to have been invented in 1837 by Sir William Grove, yet almost 200 hundred years on some fuel cell groups still seem to be having a hard time reaching commercialisation--either because of constant [...]
The need to stop global warming in its tracks has spurred the growth of two smarter renewables that are helping to reshape the electricity [...]
This article first appeared in Climate News Network.net Ireland has decided to bring down the curtain on the Age of Coal by ending its fossil fuel investments. BY KIERAN COOKE DUBLIN, 25 July, 2018 – Other countries talk about it, Ireland is actually doing it: it’s turning its back on fossil fuel investments. In recent days [...]
If there would be an award for companies because of the frequency of their trading updates Biome Technologies, the London AIM-listed bioplastics and radio frequency technology business, would definitely be a contender for a prize. A pre-close trading statement for the financial year ended 31 December 2017, issued late in 2017 said there be a [...]
This article first appeared in Climate News Network.Net By Tim Radford Transporting steel and cement are likely future problems. Image via public domain There are some problems clean energy from wind and sun cannot solve. Two new studies provide a roadmap of the challenges ahead. LONDON, 13 July, 2018 – The journey to a world of [...]