By Julian Singer On 26 September Atome Energy issued a trading update for the six months to 30 June 2022, the first such announcement since it listed on AIM in December 2021. Atome claims to be the only pure international green hydrogen and ammonia production company on the LSE. This may well be true, although [...]
By Julian Singer Simec Atlantis Energy had a tough year in 2021. The company is mainly known for its tidal stream turbines located in the Pentland Firth in the north of Scotland, but in recent years it has tried to diversify into other renewables. In 2017 the company purchased the closed Uskmouth coal-fired power station [...]
By Julian Singer Many people have dreamt of generating electricity from waves but no one has yet shown it to be commercially successful. Anyone returning from a seaside vacation knows the power of waves, but no one has yet found a system that is rugged enough to withstand the large forces they can generate at [...]
Pumped Storage is the method of storing electrical energy by using it to pump water from a low-level to a high-level reservoir. The energy is retrieved by reversing the process, in which the pumps become generators and the water is released back to the lower level. In the UK the best-known example is Dinorwig in [...]