As I sift through the various press releases from London-listed Drax Group, I think of BBC Radio 4’ s Today Programme. Most mornings recently the programme has set a puzzle. The public utterances by the Drax Group, owner of the UK’s largest power station, are nothing if not a bit puzzling. In February last year [...]
The year 2017 saw mixed fortunes for Greenbarrel. In February our original website Greenbarrel.org crashed. Various attempts made to resuscitate it failed. The three founders of Greenbarrel myself, Barney Smith and Julian Singer spent from April through to mid-August constructing our new platform Greenbarrel.com. This involved repopulating the archives with our past best features and [...]
For the past two years or so the word TyraTech, title of the London-listed corporate minnow focused on nature derived insect and parasite control products, has seemed synonymous with Vamousse. This is the name of the company’s flagship range of shampoo and head lice prevention treatments. For years TyraTech, like other small clean-tech and renewable [...]
Berkeley Energia finds a significant investor to propel its Salamanca uranium mine in Spain into production Berkeley Energia is a London quoted about-to-be uranium producer which can cause confusion amongst investors over its job description. Some government departments and quasi-government organisations in the UK have the sneaky habit of massaging the figures for renewable electricity [...]
Having written recently about IGas Energy’s conventional oil and gas activities, 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. Of course, for many IGas investors the real interest is in the potential of the shale acreage which the [...]
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 only to a certain extent. There is a coherent Oil and Gas story here alongside a fracking story. So we are going to try to cover the situation as two-linked [...]
We last wrote about Biome Technologies earlier this 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”. [...]
It is tempting when writing about tidal stream power to go into metaphor-land and question if it is a ‘drop in the ocean’ or whether it can “make a bigger splash” and become a key, or even a dominant part of the future energy mix, not just in the UK but also in other countries. [...]
We wrote about London AIM-listed Eden Research early in September when we reported that the company had had a hard time of it in 2016 and that its woes seemed to continue into 2017, with the result that its share price suffered a gradual decline. However, the group’s interim results for the six months ending [...]
After a period of procrastination the UK government is allegedly moving to put a cap on energy prices. This is the first intervention in the energy market since privatisation 30 years ago. It has certainly upset some of Mrs May’s more right-wing back-benchers who believe that interfering with market forces damages competition. What the government [...]