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 [...]
According to its own rather tired-looking website, Rurelec’s basic strategy has been to acquire, develop and manage small to medium-sized power plants in South America. The company, which is registered in England and Wales initially prospered and floated on London’s AIM in 2004, with an interest in a functioning plant in Argentina and some exciting [...]
Having very recently written about Ocean Power technologies (OPT), I approached the ASX-listed Carnegie Clean Energy company with a slightly weary feeling of “Here we go again.” Just over a year ago at an AGM on 2 December 2016, Carnegie Wave Power (CWP) shareholders voted overwhelmingly to change the company name to Carnegie Clean Energy [...]
Just over a year ago we wrote about the financial results for the first half of fiscal 2017 for Ocean Power Technologies(OPT), the American wave energy company which started commercial operations in 1994. On 12 December 2016 we reported that for the six months ending on 31 October 2016 revenue was down, the net loss [...]
By James Bradbury, former General Manager Chloride EV Systems Around the turn of the last century, some of the earliest road vehicles were battery powered. But eventually the flexibility and performance of internal combustion engines proved superior. However low-speed electric vehicles continued to play a role in niche markets, such as door-to-door milk delivery, where [...]
When I started Greenbarrel.Com in its latest incarnation last year I knew it was going to be a different experience from my first venture into internet publishing in 2003, even though the business model is similar. The first venture was Oilbarrel.com, an online platform for investors interested in putting money into small oil and gas [...]
We last wrote about AIM-listed Altona Energy on 15 August 2016. The first para of our report said that “Altona last appeared in Greenbarrel in February 2014. Since then there have been a lot of changes but little progress.” Now a further 16 months on, the company’s audited Final Results Report for the financial year [...]
ITM Power specialises in the manufacture and provision of integrated hydrogen energy systems. Founded in June 2001, the company floated on London’s Alternative Investment market (AIM) in 2004, claiming to be the first United Kingdom (UK)-based fuel cell company to go public. ITM believes hydrogen is the cleanest fuel available but you can’t dig it up [...]