Recycling is trendy these days, and this is great news for those who are particularly environmentally conscious. More and more people are paying attention to recycling their used products rather [...]

Built in efficiency

Mike Burke, business development director at Unidata Infrastructure, looks at the challenge of making existing buildings more energy efficient in order to meet future low carbon requirements. For some organisations, [...]

Harvest festival

Can we measure the impact of renewable energy harvesting, asks Prof. Markys Cain? Reports show how scavenging wasted energy will boost industry and create a multibillion pound market. To ensure [...]

Larger than life

Cornwall ‘ups the solar ante’ with three major SPV plants Somewhat surprisingly, Cornwall is the UK’s largest generator of SPV. The region can now also lay claim to housing the [...]

Under wraps

Mark Hillsdon looks at the techniques available for insulating older properties Around 100,000 new homes are built in the UK each year, many to the latest energy efficient standards. Alongside [...]

Green light

The last few years have been tricky for the motor industry, though visitors to this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show will have been pleasantly surprised by developments in the sector. For [...]

Unleash the heat

Mark Hillsdon digs out the facts on ground source heat pumps – the next untapped resource Perhaps it’s their clumsy name, or the fact that once they’re buried under the [...]

Cutting back

With this being Energy Saving Week, the rising cost of energy now being linked to high inflation in the UK economy and the onset of a cold winter likely to [...]

Beautiful dawn

Scientists are a generation away from creating fusion energy on a commercial scale. R3 investigates the state of play Text: Tom Holmes A wise man once said that fusion energy [...]

Energy efficiency initiatives for commercial energy management

Organisations with energy bills in excess of £500,000 are obliged to make significant improvements in energy usage and carbon emissions in order to meet the mandatory carbon trading scheme ‘CRC [...]