Every British home is to be issued with a smart meter which calculates how much gas or electricity is used each time an appliance is switched on. Families will also know how much they are spending minute-by-minute. Details will be announced by the Energy Secretary Ed Miliband this week. Old-style meters will be ripped out… Continue Reading »
Read More →Ed Balls has told schools to cut their energy bills and share resources in order to save tens of millions of pounds of public money. The Schools Secretary said headteachers need to start planning to make savings now in order to protect teaching jobs and frontline services in the future amid growing pressures on the… Continue Reading »
Read More →The active reactor at Dungeness B in Kent ,was taken offline after the blaze broke out in a boiler annexe on Monday night. Operator British Energy said there was no risk to the public and there was no release of radioactive material as a result of the fire. Experts were on site trying to find… Continue Reading »
Read More →A radical new design of electrical generator that solves an engineering quandary and promises to be cheaper, lighter and more reliable than anything currently available has been unveiled by scientists at the University of Edinburgh. The work by Markus Mueller and Alasdair McDonald at the university’s Institute of Energy Systems has solved one of the… Continue Reading »
Read More →This week a major report will announce that the UK government’s carbon reduction targets are unachievable and illusory. The report, from the prestigious Institution of Mechanical Engineers implies that the official targets would require the building of 30 Nuclear power stations in Britain by 2015 (an impossibility), and IMEchE has called for a huge rise in… Continue Reading »
Read More →Catalyst recently presented at Microsoft on the topic of ‘IT can be easy being green’ This presentation was aimed at busineses and organisations interested in using technology to measure and reduce energ consumption. The presentation contains information on: Why environmental responsibility is becoming essential How to measure your energy consumption The use of smart meters… Continue Reading »
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