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Image: Arqiva/United Utilities British water utility United Utilities has selected telecommunications company Arqiva to deliver over 1 million smart meters before 2030. The deal, with a value of £250 million ($309 million) until 2030 – and an option to extend for a further five years – includes sourcing, installing and commissioning the smart meters and…
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Image: 123RF.com The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced new centres for the energy transition as part of its ‘Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ (C4IR) initiative. The upcoming centres are in Muscat, Oman and Pretoria, South Africa focussed on AI and the energy transition and the twin challenges of industry digitisation and decarbonisation respectively,…
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Azelis is reopening four application and formulation laboratories in the UK, dedicated to the personal care, home care & industrial cleaning, pharmaceuticals & healthcare, and food & nutrition markets. With all four laboratories located under one ceiling, Azelis said its market-driven lab teams can now more easily share knowledge and drive cross-fertilisation innovation for customers.…
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Dinnissen’s stainless steel lift saves space, accelerates work processes, and minimises safety risks through automated, safe vertical movement of raw materials and goods. Designed to meet strict hygienic standards and made entirely of stainless steel, the lift guarantees full reliability. The idea for the stainless steel lift emerged during a project in the United States.…
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A collection of researchers have invented a flexible, yarn-like battery prototype that uses the electrolytes in salty water to conduct electricity through ions. The report was published in report in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces by an international team consisting of Yihao Jian, Jun Ju, Lingwei Pei, Wenhu Gao, Duan Li, Wei Wang, Yan Qiao and Zhisong…
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Equinor has awarded pre-FEED study contracts to BW Offshore and Altera Infrastructure for the Bay du Nord floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, planned for deployment offshore Canada. The Bay du Nord project consists of several oil discoveries in the Flemish Pass basin, some 500 km northeast of St. John’s in Newfoundland and Labrador,…
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DePoly, a Swiss award-winning cleantech company which specialises in advanced recycling of PET/polyester plastics, today announced its collaboration with Plastic Technologies Inc (PTI) a leader in sustainable plastic packaging design and development, to create a closed loop recycled PET bottle. Using a mixed stream of feedstock, ranging from PET plastic packaging, polyester fibres and industrial…
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Image courtesy University of Leeds (taken by Ben Craven, School of Earth and Environment) Project Geogrid in the UK has been awarded £480,000 (approximately $590,717) from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) to tap into geothermal long-duration storage to deliver cross-vector balancing and advanced network management. LCP Delta, alongside Geosolutions Leeds, Northern Powergrid, University of Leeds,…
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With the launch of its brand-new Spearmint flavour in early 2025, Milliways is giving the phrase “fresh start” a whole new meaning. Already the fastest-growing gum brand in the UK and with successful launches in the USA and France under its belt, Milliways will further entrench itself as a customer favourite with the launch of…
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Image: 123RF Enel has launched the EBITTS project with crypto service provider Conio to tokenise its renewable energy assets on the Algorand blockchain. The project, which had its origin in an innovation challenge, is aimed at the many people living in apartments or other buildings with limitations on installing self-generation to access renewable energies. Focussed…
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