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Perthshire-based Binn Group has announced it has secured a five-year waste management contract with NHS Tayside. Taking effect from tomorrow (1 October), the annual contract covers the health board’s 47 sites across the region including Ninewells Hospital and Perth Royal Infirmary. Under the agreement, Binn Group will manage NHS Tayside’s residual,…

Solar cells may need sunlight, but they generally fare badly in the heat, operating less and less efficiently as they get hotter. Researchers led by Kasper Moth-Poulsen at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain have now tackled the heating that usually occurs in solar cells exposed to sunlight, by introducing…

£3 million renewable energy system now live and set to generate 120% of the businesses energy needs ahead of Christmas production rush Simon Howie, the Scottish Butcher and UK household meat brand, has taken a major step forward on its path to net zero with the installation of a 104m high…

A new plan providing further detail on how Dundee aims to become Scotland’s pioneering Net Zero city has been approved by Dundee City Council. Led by the Dundee Climate Leadership Group (DCLG), a partnership of public and private sector organisations, the Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP) sets out how the…

Grünwald, 01.10.2024 – The renewable energy fund KGAL ESPF 5 has successfully bid for three wind turbines from BayWa r.e. The wind farm, located in Reichenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, has a total capacity of 18.6 megawatts (MW) and is nearing completion.  KGAL is planning further acquisitions in Germany and the Czech Republic…

As the energy industry becomes more digital and interconnected, challenges in cybersecurity, human error prevention, and maintenance management grow. Here, Alexander Punzenberger, President of automation supplier COPA-DATA CEE/ME, explains how implementing a secure software platform provides advanced tools to enhance security and risk management in power generation facilities.Threats to power…

Munich, 1 October 2024: BayWa r.e. has successfully sold three wind projects in Germany, continuously driving forward the German energy transition. The sales include the wind projects Beckum (North Rhine-Westphalia), Jembke (Lower Saxony) and Reichenbach (Rhineland-Palatinate), which will provide more than 120,000 MWh of green electricity to about 40,000 local…

02 October 2024: Mainstream Renewable Power (“Mainstream”), the pureplay global wind and solar company, has reached financial close on its 50 MW Ilikwa solar PV plant. The power from the plant will supply multiple private commercial and industrial customers under flexible, shorter-term Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) in a new-to-market product…

Enovert has begun construction of a new solar farm which will be built on part of the Hempsted landfill, in a project that will see renewable electricity generated from the site of the former disposal site in Gloucester. In September, a topping out event to mark the first significant construction milestone…

The cornerstone was laid today for the largest battery park complex in continental Europe, in Kiisa, Estonia, by Baltic Storage Platform. This is an important step to ensure the synchronisation of the Baltic countries to the European grid in 2025.   Baltic Storage Platform, a joint venture between the Estonian energy…