It has been a topsy-turvy seven months for AIM –listed energy provider Flowgroup plc. During this period its share price fell from a 52-week high of 9.7 pence to 0.82p last Friday evening. However, it could now be in a recovery mode. In February 2017 with the shares at the 9.7p level, Flowgroup was still [...]
The suave Mr Iain Conn, the head of Centrica which owns British Gas, one of the so-called “Big Six” oligopoly of providers which has dominated the UK retail energy market, can hardly be said to be lacking in self-confidence. As an unnamed colleague of his at the major oil company BP, where he previously worked [...]
This is the second and final article on community based renewable energy projects in remote locations and the problems they can encounter. This second piece is about wind power By Stewart Dalby Wind power has been a different story at a local level to other renewable energy projects, such as marine current turbines, in remote [...]
This is the first of two articles on community based renewable energy projects in remote locations and the problems they can encounter. This first piece concerns marine tidal turbines By Stewart Dalby The Shetland Islands are 106 miles north of John O’Groats in Scotland and they are thus very remote from UK mainland energy infrastructure. [...]
Hydrogen cars are vehicles powered by a single hydrogen fuel cell. The fuel cells work by using a “fuel stack” to use outside air with hydrogen they carry in tanks in a chemical reaction which creates electricity, with the only emission being water. I came across an early prototype of such a car about ten [...]
Since Mrs Theresa May became Britain’s prime minister a year there has been repeated talk that her government would introduce a cap on energy prices because of widespread discontent with the way the so called “Big Six” power suppliers have been over-charging consumers. Nothing was done until she called a general election. It then seemed [...]
ITM Power the London-listed hydrogen fuel and storage specialist is making headway in supplying hydrogen refuelling stations (HRS) on a pan European basis. On June 29th 2016 the company announced it was to supply an integrated HRS to French renewables group Hydrogene de France (HDF). The initial contract is worth Euros1.5 million to ITM, which [...]
Like other renewable energy groups such as Flowgroup and Eden Research, redT energy (formerly Camco) seemed to be bogged down in development rather than arriving at commerciality. This was partly because they had too many potentially marketable but unproven lines. But it was also because, well, it can take a long time to establish pioneering [...]
As we wrote just over a week ago London AIM-listed Flowgroup’s preliminary results for 2015 announced today were expected to focus on problems caused by the EU inspired proposed changes to VAT on its breakthrough Flow boiler. This has turned out to be the case. Speaking on the announcement of the results the company said [...]
The most recent press release from Green Dragon Gas (July 26) reported that the London-listed Group has had a production boost from the unconventional gas wells it operates in China because of its investment in infrastructure. The coal bed methane (CBM) specialist said sales from its flagship GSS unconventional gas fields in China rose largely [...]