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UK vertical GrowUp Farms is celebrating a great start to 2024, after partnering with one of the UK’s leading convenience store groups by securing a listing for its award-winning Fresh Leaf Co. bagged salad. Fresh Leaf Co. red + green baby leaf salad will be available to buy in more than 400 Spar stores initially,…
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Gut Lovin’ drinks brand, Hip Pop, has welcomed yet another iconic British retailer to its growing list of stockists, having launched in 52 Marks & Spencer’s Food Halls just last month. As of this week, Hip Pop’s functional Living Sodas – in flavours Tropical Peach and Ginger & Turmeric – are available to purchase from…
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Image courtesy 123rf The growth of Home Energy Management (HEM) has led to a burgeoning, heretofore fragmented market, within which rages a business battleground of players large and small. The key to winning, explains Yusuf Latief in Smart Energy International’s Power Playbook column, will be ownership of customer confidence. According to Market Reports World, the…
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Image courtesy 123rf Clean energy enterprise TagEnergy has reached financial close on the 49.9MW/99.8MWh Pitkevy facility in Fife, Scotland, its sixth battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the UK. The package, originally secured to finance the construction and operation of TagEnergy’s Lakeside BESS project in October 2023, included an uncommitted accordion facility, enabling TagEnergy…
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Bad Honnef transformer facility. Image courtesy Hitachi Energy Hitachi Energy has announced an investment of more than €30 million ($32 million) in the expansion and modernisation of its power transformer manufacturing facility in Bad Honnef, Germany. Expected to be complete in 2026, the project will see the facility expand to over 15,000 square meters. Combined…
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The United States’ Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) approved the Construction and Operations Plan (COP) for Equinor’s Empire Wind project, marking another milestone in advancing the New York offshore wind project. With this permitting action by BOEM secured, Empire Wind is on track to begin construction in its federal lease area off the southern…
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Award-winning UK ice-cream manufacturer Tubzee found the service from packaging experts Yorkshire Packaging Systems (YPS) so overwhelmingly positive that it has now purchased a second shrink wrapping line from the suppliers. Prior to working with YPS, the original aging wrapping equipment needed replacement, so Tubzee sought a supplier who would not only provide the kit,…
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ABS has issued approval in principle (AIP) to Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore for its design of a dual-fuel methanol, heavy-duty, offshore wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV). The WTIV is capable of transporting and installing the largest wind turbines in the world, those capable of producing 16-20MW of electricity, and promises to reduce carbon emissions with…
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Image courtesy SSEN Transmission A new autonomous robot to help check electrical equipment is being deployed at SSEN Transmission’s Blackhillock high-voltage direct current (HVDC) switching station in Keith later this month – the first deployment of its kind in Scotland. The new robot – known as EXTRM MK4.1 – has been developed by tech company…
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Austal and Gotlandsbolaget of Sweden have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop a construction contract for the Gotland Horizon X catamaran concept. Gotland Horizon X is a high-speed aluminum catamaran that will use gas turbines in a combined cycle to transport up to 1,450 passengers, cargo and vehicles between the Swedish mainland and…
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