
Image: South East Water Victoria water corporation South East Water has awarded what is understood to be Australia’s largest smart water metering rollout to telco TPG Telecom. Through a 10-year deal, TPG Telecom is set to manage one million narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) smart meters for South East Water. Deployed across South East Water’s…

Following consultation with IMO member nations and other stakeholders, the World Shipping Council (WSC) has further developed the Green Balance Mechanism, a regulatory measure designed to ensure that shipping meets its net-zero goal by 2050 in an efficient, just and equitable way. A detailed proposal, including design updates and regulatory text for the Green Balance…

Eastern Green Link 2. Image courtesy SSEN Transmission Ofgem has approved a £3.4 billion ($4.4 billion) funding package to build a proposed new subsea and underground 500km cable between Scotland and Yorkshire in the UK. Eastern Green Link 2 (EGL 2) will deliver a 2GW high voltage electricity ‘superhighway’ cable link between Peterhead in Aberdeenshire…

Credit: TXU Energy / Ford Ford Motor Company and TXU Energy, a Texas electricity provider and subsidiary of Vistra, have teamed up to create a new retail energy offering for Ford electric SUV and truck customers in Texas – offering EV customers credit back on their bills for charging during off-peak hours. The TXU Energy Free EV Miles programme…

A recycler’s dream and a prerequisite for material cycles: pure PET flakes without printing inks or label residues. Six different wash-off self-adhesive materials from HERMA certified by the Institute cyclos-HTP make it possible. (Image source: iStock/ RecycleMan Posted: 13 August 2024 Share this page Herma is significantly expanding its range of wash-off self-adhesive materials, meaning…

According to a new study, switching to more plant-based diets could reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from global food supply chains by 17%. Researchers believe that a currently over-consuming 56.9% of the global population would save 32.4% of global dietary emissions by changing their diet to the planetary health diet proposed by the EAT-Lancet Commission.…

Shana Patadia, Head of Business Development at Synop Considering the extensive constraints barring the commercial EV transition in the US, such as initial capital, access to power and suitable real estate, Shana Patadia of Synop writes on how a software-supported sharing economy could sustainably accelerate the clean tech’s adoption. Global giants like McDonald’s, DHL, Sysco,…

FieldGoods founders. Elliot Day, Sam Day Posted: 13 August 2024 Share this page FieldGoods, the prepared meal brand founded by brothers Elliot and Sam Day, has closed its biggestround of investment fundraising to date, reaching its target of £750k. The brothers plan to use the funds to accelerate growth within the UK market with a…

Collo, a Finnish technology company specialising in IoT analysers for optimising industrial liquid processes, has secured €5 million in growth funding. The funding round was co-led by SEB Greentech Venture Capital from Sweden and Dutch deep-tech investor FORWARD.one, with additional support from existing investor Scale Capital, a Danish deep-tech investment firm. Collo’s analyser offers rapid…

Image: Clean energy for EU islands A new study from the European Commission’s ‘Clean energy for EU islands’ secretariat offers recommendations to overcome the energy challenges faced by the EU islands in various parts of the world. Islands face a range of economic and other challenges, with their differences in terms of size, topography, population…