Global market coming to Cambridge. A Cambridge based company who specialise within solar energy have just commissioned a new development and manufacturing facility in Cambridge. The project has been commissioned by a company called Eight19 who plan to produce the next generation of solar solutions for a global market. Eight19, will base the facility at ...
Carillion has put all 4,500 staff at its energy services division on redundancy notice as the firm prepares to make 1,500 job cuts. The sweeping move has been forced on Carillion by Government cuts to solar power subsidies which are set to decimate turnover at the division. A spokesperson for Carillion said: “We expect the ...
Plans being considered by OFGEM according to a recent BBC News article indicate that the industry regulator could undermine the prospect of new UK nuclear power plants. Is this something which will be of greater benefit to the local economy in East Anglia? The answer is difficult to assess as this region has both key ...
David Cameron has personally committed to an “all-out mission” to kick-start major infrastructure projects to drive the economy. The Prime Minister said he had given the go-ahead for two power plants at Ferrybridge and Thorpe Marsh in the north of England that will create 1,000 construction jobs. Writing in the Financial Times, Cameron said: “Our focus is ...
If Shells quarterly report is anything to go by the oil and gas industry continues to be profitable business to be in. They have recently reported doubling their profits year on year over the last 3 months. These profits are mainly a result of Crude oil being 48% higher than last year driving consumers interest in ...
Reaction to Chancellor George Osborne’s budget has been mixed but with his hands already tied to the deficit reduction programme a “fiscal neutrality” budget was never going to have lots to offer. The Chancellor did however manage to introduce a number of measures designed to help businesses and ended his speech with a politically minded ...
In a climate where most industries are in decline how can the Oil and Gas industry continue to rapidly expand? With more and more us relying on energy to service technology it is easy to see why the International Energy Agency has estimated that the global demand for energy by 2031 will increase by a ...
It seems like you can’t pick a newspaper or turn on a television these days without hearing about rising energy costs and the lack of sustainable resources. It is also well documented that the environment is under pressure and we all need to be that little bit more “environmental conscious and responsible”. Has all this ...
The govenment Climate secretary has recently published a new Energy Bill detailing funding for home energy improvements. The report details how the proposed “Green Deal” paying for mass retrofitting of existing homes, will work. On the Energy Bill launch, Mr Huhne said the proposals will create an industry improving the energy efficiency of people’s homes ...
The BBC is reporting today that a public inquiry into proposals for an eight turbine wind farm in Cambridgeshire will start later. RWE npower’s application to build at Cotton Farm near Graveley was refused by Huntingdonshire District Council in November 2009. If the government planning inspector who is overseeing the inquiry finds in favour of ...
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