Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2024

Researchers at the University of Sheffield are exploring new exhaust aftertreatment systems for heavy-duty engines capable of running on clean, zero-carbon fuels such as ammonia. The first stage involves modeling dual fuel combustion and emission characteristics of ammonia with a carbon-based promoter.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2025

Heat network developer 1Energy has secured £21m of investment from the government for a city-wide heat network in Oxford. 1 The company plans to initially invest an additional £100mn of private capital 2 to develop, build and operate the first phase of the Oxford Energy Network. Andrew Wettern, CEO of 1Energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

A sustainable housing development is to be developed in Bristol, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. With completion expected in Spring 2021, works have commenced on site by developer Wilmott Dixon, with the aid of UK ground source heat pump specialists, Kensa Contracting, undertaking the heat pump system installation.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The ‘Bringing embodied carbon upfront’ report proposes this ambitious goal alongside solutions to accelerate immediate action by the entire building and construction value chain. For example, Skanska, a major development and construction group is making strides in enabling projects to be evaluated for full lifecycle impacts.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

The next-generation digital substations will use AI and machine learning to allow more energy to be safely released onto the network, and help accelerate the UKs transition to Net Zero carbon emissions. A further five smart substations are set to be installed throughout the South East of England as part of the ongoing trial.

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3BL Media

MARCH 15, 2022

The event will also feature interactive sessions in ten content tracks, including climate justice, zero carbon, materials, and ecological restoration. Avinash Rajagopal , Metropolis Magazine. Kate Simonen , Carbon Leadership Forum. Robin Grossinger , San Francisco Estuary Institute. Oliver Heath , Oliver Heath Design Ltd.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

With the UK preparing to host the UN Climate summit COP26 later this year, the report sets out an ambitious but practical proposal based upon the development of a DRI-hydrogen, electric arc furnace-based solution. The post UK steel industry could expand in transition to zero carbon future, says report first appeared on Envirotec.

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2023

VMware has made meaningful progress in the past year toward its sustainability goals, including: Launched the Green Score feature in VMware Aria Operations Cloud, which provides recommendations for customers to further optimize energy and carbon in their cloud environments. billion goal by 2030.

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APRIL 8, 2022

The event will also feature interactive sessions in ten content tracks, including climate justice, zero carbon, materials, and ecological restoration. Avinash Rajagopal, Metropolis Magazine. Kate Simonen, Carbon Leadership Forum. Robin Grossinger, San Francisco Estuary Institute. Oliver Heath, Oliver Heath Design Ltd.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The grant from the APC’s latest collaborative research and development funding round will provide support to an innovative research project aimed at creating the requirements for a world leading metals processing facility, which has been spearheaded by sustainable materials firm EMR. million grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Located in the Mersey region, the site will support the increasing development of renewables in-line with local and national zero-carbon targets. This pioneering project enables us to deliver vital grid services without the need for fossil fuels, supporting cities like Liverpool with their zero carbon targets.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

A team of experts has launched a project in London’s borough of Greenwich to assess the feasibility of switching gas-heated, owner-occupied homes in high density areas to low carbon heating in the form of networked ground source heat pumps.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2025

An intelligent motor developed in Nottingham appears to offer a game-changing combination of energy savings, performance and small size, providing an industrial motor with advanced variable frequency technology in a package that is 60% smaller than current market offerings. It is a game-changer.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A new report, ‘Risk & Resilience: The role of cities in tackling the climate crisis’ , argues that climate resilience must be embraced as a guiding principle across urban development, given the extreme exposure of cities to climate risk. Coordination – multi-stakeholder engagement and institutional coordination is vital.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Researchers at Teesside University are working with hydrogen consultancy EnAcumen to develop a first-of-its-kind hydrogen purification process which they say will overcome the difficulties in extracting hydrogen from ammonia. The stringent process requirements are nearly impossible to achieve via standalone cleaning methods. humbulsuleman.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The boilers have been developed as part of the UK Government-funded Hy4Heat programme, which is also supporting the development of hydrogen-ready gas cookers, fires and gas meters. A growing library of studies and reports conclude that all viable scenarios for the UK to hit net-zero include hydrogen as a vital component.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

In an investment said to be worth tens of millions of pounds, a storage facility for the temporary storage of liquid CO2 will be constructed by anaerobic digestion (AD) plant developer and operator Future Biogas by the end of 2024 on a dedicated site at Saltend, comprising up to 32 CO2 storage tanks.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

A November report released by the UK’s Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) presented findings from a modelling exercise that suggested the country could achieve its net-zero target without resort to “unproven” technologies like CCS, instead relying on changes to energy, buildings, transport, industry, diets and land use.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

The demonstration unit is based on innovative technology developed by H2SITE and is located at Tyseley Energy Park, a strategic energy and resource hub in the West Midlands. The government support which they have received today will help to boost the development of hydrogen as the clean, affordable, homegrown superfuel of the future.”.

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3BL Media

APRIL 24, 2024

Today, this Observatory has released the second edition of its Sustainable Construction Barometer 1 , a study conducted by the CSA research institute, to better understand the perceptions of key stakeholders and the levers to be activated to accelerate the development of sustainable construction in the United States and around the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Not only do these countries possess the hydrocarbons necessary to produce low-carbon blue hydrogen, but they also have experience in developing and operating complex industrial projects, and tend to have the renewable resources to produce green hydrogen at scale.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

Reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 is impossible without urgent changes to national planning policy, analysis by CPRE, the countryside charity, appears to have found. We found not a single example of planning inspectors demanding changes to plans to ensure they reduce carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres. The Old Oak development will create 22,000 new jobs. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK.

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3BL Media

APRIL 24, 2024

Today, this Observatory has released the second edition of its Sustainable Construction Barometer 1 , a study conducted by the CSA research institute, to better understand the perceptions of key stakeholders and the levers to be activated to accelerate the development of sustainable construction in Canada and around the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 23, 2023

We look forward to continue working with our partners to deliver a truly revolutionary step in the path to net zero carbon. Image credit: Ammogen The foundations have been laid at a green ammonia to hydrogen demonstrator site at Tyseley Energy Park.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 1, 2025

With recent developments all but confirming that the world will exceed the Paris Climate Agreements 1.5-degree degree target, and the built environment accounting for 40% of global emissions, the study highlights there is much more that needs to be done.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Local and regional authorities are already delivering new approaches that demonstrate the value of locally based solutions: from transport infrastructure and decarbonisation to retrofitting homes and developing smart energy solutions. We want to work hand-in-glove with Government to accelerate the drive to Net Zero.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2023

Ben Garner, Tarmac’s low carbon logistics lead, said: “With the arrival of this new vehicle, we’re able to offer something completely new to the market and demonstrate that a fully integrated low carbon logistics model is possible.” The truck also seemingly offers reduced noise and vibration.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This new report published by the charity, which works with public sector bodies to develop new ways of managing and resourcing urban greenspace, estimates that heat from the ground in urban greenspace could supply 5% of the country’s total heat demand.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Supercritical water “can penetrate fractures faster and more easily and can carry far more energy per well to the surface, roughly five to ten times the energy produced by today’s commercial geothermal wells”, according to “Superhot Rock Geothermal, A Vision for Zero-Carbon Energy ‘Everywhere,’” a 2021 report by the Clean Air Task Force.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This installation is the latest investment by Scottish Water Horizons, the public utility’s commercial subsidiary, who are developing a programme of opportunities for battery storage across Scottish Water’s asset portfolio.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2025

The pioneering, small-bore engine concept has been developed by engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and Skovgaard Energy, a firm developing green ammonia production using renewable electricity and electrolysis.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

The approach uses a previously developed “solar fuels” technology, which the group, from the University of Cambridge, has tested before, and installs it in a real world installation where it accepts industrial exhaust gases. These artificial leaves convert CO 2 and water into fuels using just the power of the sun.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sizewell C aims to power its water desalination plant with zero carbon electricity from Sizewell B in a further move to make construction of the nuclear plant in Suffolk as green as possible, as the group’s Nick Osbourne writes. The new nuclear power station is already set to be one of the biggest Net Zero projects in the UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

is supporting a project by the University of Birmingham to create a National Centre for the Decarbonisation of Heat, which aims of create a central hub for training and education in low-carbon heating and renewable energy in the West Midlands. .” Sustainable energy provider E.ON Michael Lewis, Chief Executive of E.ON

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

This will include developing a Carbon Management Plan for the event and working with key suppliers to build a sustainable supply chain. Arup, together with partners Crowberry Consulting, will work with the Government to prepare for the November 2021 COP26 event in Glasgow by advising on all aspects of sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

Ben Richardson, CEO of SulNOx, said operators of truck fleets “are running as hard as possible to cut costs while minimising their environmental impact as they strive towards a zero-carbon future. The ease and speed of using the product makes this an exciting development in how we manage our fleet as efficiently as possible.”

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