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Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council Welcomes Opening of ScotWind Leasing Application Window

Crown Estate Scotland has today officially opened the application window for ScotWind Leasing, the new offshore wind leasing round for Scottish waters, paving the way for developers to apply for the rights to build Scotland’s next generation of offshore wind farms.

15 Jan 2021

Shearwater Energy Selects NuScale Power’s Small Modular Technology for SMR Wind-hybrid Energy Project

Shearwater Energy Ltd., a United Kingdom-based hybrid clean energy company, is developing a wind-SMR (Small Modular Reactor) and hydrogen production hybrid energy project in North Wales.

From NuScale Power 15 Jan 2021

Moray East Announces Installation of First Turbine

Moray East has announced the successful milestone of its first turbine installation, issuing photos of the first of 100 9.5 MW turbines in the Moray Firth.

15 Jan 2021

Dastur Selected to Design and Evaluate Techno-Economic Feasibility of India’s Largest Carbon Capture and Utilization Project at IOCL’s Flagship Koyali Refinery

Ridgewood, NJ based Dastur International, Inc., along with its Austin, TX based affiliate Dastur Energy Inc. and M. N. Dastur & Co (P) Ltd. (Dastur); Houston, TX based Air Liquide Global E&C Solutions (Air Liquide); and the Austin, TX based Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG) at the University of Texas at Austin, have been selected to carry out the design and feasibility for India’s largest industrial carbon capture and utilization (CCUS) project at the 13.7 million tons per annum (mtpa) Koyali refinery of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL). Dastur is the prime contractor and will lead the project.

From Dastur & Company (P) Ltd. 15 Jan 2021

Russelectric, A Siemens Business, Adds Electric Vehicle Charging to Massachusetts Renewable Microgrid Systems will Help Maximize Uptime and Support Business Continuity

Russelectric, A Siemens Business and manufacturer of distributed energy and microgrid control systems for mission critical commercial facilities for 50 years, has added electrical vehicle charging capabilities at its Hingham, Massachusetts, facility.

15 Jan 2021

Are Partially Protected Areas the 'red herrings' of Marine Conservation?

Partially protected marine areas create confusion and don’t meet their broad conservation objectives, UNSW researchers have found.

15 Jan 2021

Yara Marine X Chooses Phoenician Energy’s Aluminum-Air Batteries for the Win

As Yara Marine Technologies expands into new green technology for the maritime industry, their accelerator program for startups lets them tap into the frontiers of green marine technologies.

15 Jan 2021

The ‘Missing Link’ that Triggered Earth’s Ice Ages

By examining a rock archive dating back 1.6 million years, researchers have found that melting icebergs in the Antarctic could have triggered chain reactions that led to previous ice ages.

By Robert Lea 14 Jan 2021

Orkney Distilleries Secure Funding to Go Green with Hydrogen

The European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) has launched a project with world-renowned distillery Highland Park and The Orkney Distillery to investigate green hydrogen heating as a clean fuel solution for decarbonization in the distilling sector.

14 Jan 2021

Surrey Awarded £1.8m to Lead Study on Effects Tall Buildings have on Urban Environment

The University of Surrey has been awarded £1.8m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to investigate how increased construction of tall buildings will impact the meteorology, air quality, and climate of towns and cities in the UK.

14 Jan 2021

The True Extent of Microplastic Pollution Caused by Clothing Revealed

Researchers have discovered that microfibers from clothes are the most pervasive form of Arctic microplastic pollution.

By Robert Lea 13 Jan 2021

Ohio EPA Chooses to Maximize Air Quality Benefits and Bring More Clean Air to Communities

Nationwide, nearly $3 billion in funds set aside nationwide as part of the 2015 Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust settlement are being heavily invested in the new generation of clean technologies, including in Ohio where 81 percent of the third round of funding disbursements will replace trucks, transit and school buses with new technology diesel engines, according to analysis by the Diesel Technology Forum.

13 Jan 2021

A Bucket of Water can Reveal how Climate Change Impacts Biodiversity

Climate changes prompt many important questions. Not least how it affects animals and plants: Do they adapts, gradually migrate to different areas or become extinct? And what is the role played by human activities? This applies not least to Greenland and the rest of the Artic, which are expected to see the greatest effects of climate changes.

13 Jan 2021

Study: Wildfire Smoke has More of a Cooling Effect than Climate Models Assume

A study of biomass burning aerosols led by University of Wyoming researchers revealed that smoke from wildfires has more of a cooling effect on the atmosphere than computer models assume.

13 Jan 2021

Abundance and Diversity of Wild Bees Affected by Climate Change

According to Penn State researchers, climate change affects wild bees more than disturbances to their habitats. Their findings indicate that mitigating land-use issues alone will not be adequate to safeguard these vital pollinators.

13 Jan 2021