It would be a gross exaggeration to suggest that the game is over for Good Energy, the creator and supplier of energy which is totally derived from green and renewable sources. But it would not be too far of a push to say Good Energy had what companies call a “challenging year’ in 2017. Signals [...]
Having written about IGas Energy’s conventional oil and gas activities recently, in a second article we now look at fracking for shale gas in the UK and the company’s role as a player in the activities. On April 3 this year the oil and gas exploration company Caudrilla said it had completed the first horizontal [...]
IGas Energy and Fracking: In big picture terms, the financial future of IGas is caught up with the prospects for fracking in the UK. But not entirely. There is a coherent oil and gas story here alongside a fracking story. So we are again trying to cover the situation, as we did when we last [...]
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 renewable energy provider. Three of the company’s six generating units are powered by compressed wood pellets and the company is looking at converting a fourth coal unit to wood pellets. The switch [...]
Hydrodec Group’s recent history is similar, if not identical, to that of another clean tech AIM-listed minnow we wrote about recently called Eden Research. Both companies went through available funds as they struggled to establish commerciality for their output. They encountered technical problems with their innovative products or had to overcome regulatory hurdles along the [...]
Eden Research describes itself as a company that provides breakthrough biopesticides and natural microencapsulation technologies to the global agrochemicals, animal health and consumer products industries. The company developed its first agrochemical product that was called 3AEY (now known as Mevalone) which is a fungicide which targets botrytis, a mould that causes diseases in grapes. Eden [...]
I first knew Dan Southerland from our reporting days in Southeast Asia in the 1970s. He worked for the Christian Science Monitor and then The Washington Post and did long stints in Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) and China. He covered energy issues for The Washington Post for a few years when he was working [...]
It could only happen to the accident-prone UK prime minister Mrs May, couldn’t it? After more than 18 months of procrastination she finally, last week (on 26 February) put legislation before parliament which would impose a cap, or ceiling, on energy prices. Unfortunately, three days later (on 1 March) the National Grid announced that the [...]
We wrote about Biome Technologies early last year when we reported on the company’s final results for 2016. The standout remark from Chairman John Standen’s statement was: “The results show some improvement in profitability over the previous year, albeit they do not demonstrate the step-change in underlying performance we expected earlier in the year”. Since [...]
The most recent update (4 January 2018) from Green & Smart Holdings, the renewable energy group that produces biogas from waste in Malaysia says they are excited by the progress on their second fully-owned biogas power project. You do not have to look too far into G & S’s recent history to discover why, even [...]