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Carbon capture and storage

CGI image showing the proposed facilities

1/10/2025 News

UK backs first EfW carbon capture project while new study highlights the sector’s net-negative potential

The UK’s first full-scale carbon capture project for energy-from-waste (EfW) is set to go ahead, with waste management firm Encyclis and the government signing an agreement to develop the Protos carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility in Cheshire. The announcement comes as a new report finds the UK EfW sector could go carbon negative by 2035 if CCS is deployed rapidly.

Young professionals

Head and shoulders photo of Marta Zambujal de Oliveira

15/10/2025 Comment / Marta Zambujal de Oliveira

Shining a Spotlight on Energy People: Marta Zambujal de Oliveira AMEI, Senior Associate, Ikigai Group

This dynamic climate financier transferred from her native Portugal to study a master’s degree course in London and has since found not only a job – at Ikigai – but also a social home among the Energy Institute’s (EI) London Young Professionals Network (YPN), whose Committee she chaired last year until moving on to a new voluntary role as YPN Global Chair and Energy Institute Council Member. She explains how she has capitalised on her engineering background and her excitement for the future in her new role.

Climate change

Aerial overview of flooded fields adjacent to road network

5/4/2023 News

UK ‘still strikingly unprepared’ for climate change

The UK government has failed to prepare for the worsening impacts of climate change, concludes the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in its latest report to Parliament, putting the country’s people, nature and infrastructure at increased risk and threatening the delivery of net zero by 2050.

Renewables

Kusile coal power plant at sunset

19/7/2023 News

South Africa’s renewable capacity to miss 2030 target

Renewable energy will account for just 20% of South Africa’s power mix by the end of this decade, highlighting an ‘uphill battle’ the nation faces in its pursuit of decarbonisation, according to new analysis.

Heat

Close up of air-to-heat pump on outside wall of building

22/3/2023 News

Heat pumps are three times more efficient than gas boilers, claims new study

Real world monitoring has shown that air source heat pumps (ASHPs) can operate with high efficiencies, even in cold weather conditions, according to recently published results.

Energy policy

Mario Draghi and Ursula von der Leyen, President, European Commission, holding the report

18/9/2024 News

The future of European competitiveness and the energy transition

Former Italian Prime Minister and European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi has unveiled the much-anticipated report on the future of European Union (EU) competitiveness.

Ammonia

Aerial view of the Ramme demonstration plant

4/9/2024 News

For the nascent e-fuels industry, four steps forward, one step back

News has come in about development of four e-fuels projects getting off the ground, while a fourth has stalled.

Floating solar

Artist’s impression of floating solar project at Plover Cove reservoir, Hong Kong

27/9/2023 News

Floating solar farms promise potential solution to Hong Kong land shortage

A floating solar farm is being planned in Hong Kong in a bid to overcome limited land resources as it strives to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Meanwhile, construction is about to start on what is claimed will be the largest floating solar farm in Europe.

Renewables

Wind turbines and solar panels in foreground against mountainous landscape

14/12/2022 News

‘Unprecedented’ growth in renewable power

The global energy crisis has triggered unprecedented momentum behind renewables, with the world set to add as much renewable power in the next five years as it did in the past 20, according to the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Nuclear

Aerial view of the GKN II nuclear plant

26/4/2023 News

End of an era – Germany shuts down its last nuclear reactors

The last three nuclear reactors in Germany were shut down earlier this month, marking the end of an era. Meanwhile, Finland’s newest nuclear facility has successfully completed trial operations and is now producing at full power for the first time.

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