Innovation

A heat pump alternative for a quarter of UK homes

Household heating is the source of 17% of the UK’s carbon emissions. Most of the country’s homes are still heated…

“Extraordinary” clean energy growth keeping 1.5°C door ajar – IEA’s Laura Cozzi

During October, the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, released two key reports analysing global progress in…

Weekly data: 70% of planned steel projects are dirty blast furnaces

Statistics around steel boggle the mind. Just under two billion tonnes of the metal are produced worldwide every year, and…

Rendesco invests £150m in ground-source heat pumps for UK new-builds

Rendesco, a UK-based ground-source geothermal heat developer, recently announced it is developing a gross pipeline of more than £150m ($187m)…

Biden administration pledges $1.2bn for world’s largest DAC plants 

The US Department of Energy (DOE) last week announced $1.2bn of investment in two commercial-scale direct air capture (DAC) facilities…

AI cuts climate-warming contrails of planes by 54% – Google study 

Google Research, American Airlines and Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy have used artificial intelligence (AI) to develop contrail forecast maps that…

How Allegro plans to power the energy transition

Companies in the rail sector are actively working on decarbonisation and transitioning to renewable energy sources. But many of the…

Can blue carbon unlock net zero?

In 2016, a small fishing village on the west coast of Kenya broke new ground: Gazi’s Mikoko Pamoja project became…

‘We’re a world that’s built on fossil fuels and emissions are our enemy’: Carbon Engineering talks direct air capture

The race to decarbonise has picked up pace in response to global crises, with companies, countries and economic blocs ramping…

Mammoet develops zero-emission heavy transport vehicle

Dutch heavy lifting and transport company Mammoet has developed a new zero-emission heavy transport vehicle that can eliminate the carbon…

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