An energy park is an affordable, quick solution to meet rising energy demand, particularly a clean energy park. This type of energy park pairs various clean energy generation sources like solar or wind, paired with energy storage solutions like batteries, all developed alongside electricity consumers like factories or data centers. Bundling diverse energy generation with […]

Greg Rankin is CEO of water safety expert Hydrosense. When news of a major Legionella outbreak in Harlem emerged last year, it followed an all-too-familiar script: serious illness, scrutiny of building water systems and practices, and inevitable questions about whether it could have been prevented. As New York grapples with yet another Legionella incident, Greg […]

Pumps and piping in a water treatment facility. Pumps are an equipment category that can seem mystifying to the outsider. There’s the profusion of different shapes, sizes and specifications, for one thing. And the fact that people often seem to forget they exist until they fail. Celebrating its 100th year, W Robinson & Sons attributes […]

Interior of a cable tunnel from National Grid’s London Power Tunnels 2 project, illustrating the type of underground infrastructure used to transmit electricity (image credit: National Grid) A major new phase in the upgrade of Britain’s electricity network has begun, with a 271.5-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) launched to construct a 2.2km tunnel beneath the […]

A new approach to grid connections could accelerate the commercial rollout of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology in the UK, after UK Power Networks announced it can now automatically approve eligible installations within seconds. Working with Octopus Energy, the distribution network operator (DNO) says it has become the first in the UK to enable instant approvals for […]

Automation gets so much attention for making production faster and more efficient. But the real story here is something else entirely: waste. When those automated production lines run smoothly, manufacturers can cut down on scrap, make less rework, get a more consistent product, and make better use of the materials they’ve got on hand. But […]

Britain could reduce the impact of rising global gas prices and supply concerns caused by the conflict in the Gulf by rapidly increasing domestic green gas production, according to the UK’s anaerobic digestion industry. Trade association the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) says existing biomethane plants could increase production by almost a third within […]

The method utilises PFAS taken from firefighting foam samples. A group at Rice University in Houston, Texas have developed a process to use PFAS to extract lithium from high-salinity brine pools, in a study recently published in Nature Water. “Extracting lithium from brine can be less environmentally damaging than conventional mining, but it still faces […]

Delegates at the British Water International Reception 2026. Water resilience should be regarded as a national security priority, delegates to the British Water International Forum 2026 heard on 23 February. Speaking at the event in London, Andy Roby, senior water resources advisor for the UK government’s Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), said, that there […]

Fly-tipping on a housing estate. A new national conference taking place on 19 March (online) will address the growing challenge of waste crime, following new Government data showing that fly‑tipping incidents in England have risen to their highest level since records began. The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) Waste Crime Conference, supported by the […]

The fire in Glasgow on 8 March. A major fire in a building next to Glasgow Central station on 8 March – which forced the closure of Scotland’s busiest railway hub – has put the spotlight once again on longstanding concerns about the safety of lithium-ion batteries. More than 200 firefighters1 battled the blaze which […]

Photovoltaic circuit board production in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, in 2021. New research suggests that concerns about relying too heavily on Chinese manufacturing are shaping climate policy – and could even delay the adoption of green technologies around the world. The study by Dr James Jackson from The University of Manchester, working alongside Dr Mathias Larsen […]

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has released a new report to complement its 2025 advice on the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget. The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitude is likely to […]