Posted on 2 Aug 2022 by The Manufacturer Western Power Distribution (WPD) has been recognised as an “outstanding” international leader in tackling climate change.Cutting greenhouse gases produced by the business has resulted in the UK’s largest distribution network operator being listed as one of Europe’s Climate Leaders for 2022 by the Financial Times and independent
Posted on 1 Jul 2022 by The Manufacturer New survey findings are painting a worrying picture of the manufacturing industry’s transition to net zero following a leading industry thinktank imploring the Government to provide more support to the sector to help reduce emissions.After modelling data from the Office for National Statistics, the Manufacturing Technology Centre
Manufacturing organisations can play a big part in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. For many businesses, this usually means changing their supply chain by employing more electric vehicles and using cleaner fuels when transporting goods and materials.But why stop there? Several aspects of manufacturing units, facilities, and warehouses offer more significant opportunities to go green…
In the wake of landmark climate event, COP26, manufacturers are striving to align their activities with the global net zero targets. But the sector has a long way to go. It currently produces more than 16 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year.Here, Johan Jonzon, Co-founder and CMO of edge analytics pioneer, Crosser, explains how…
Gravitricity has secured a £912,000 grant from the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to develop plans for a multi-weight energy storage system – to be built on a brownfield site in the UK.The Edinburgh-based energy storage specialists will work alongside control and simulation experts Industrial Systems and Control (ISC), winch specialists Huisman…
Having secured £450m from government and investors, Rolls-Royce is moving ahead with its small modular reactor (SMR) venture, which forms part of the government’s 10-point plan for a green industrial revolution over the next decade. This new generation of nuclear reactors will be quicker and cheaper to roll out than their traditional large-scale counterparts.Ahead of…
Public transport company The Go-Ahead Group has agreed a 15-year hydrogen supply deal with Air Products, a world leading industrial gas company, to power a fleet of fuel cell buses for deployment in the Gatwick Airport, Crawley and Horley area.The single-decker GB Kite Hydroliner buses, manufactured by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland, will be delivered in…
One of the UK’s largest dedicated hydrogen fuel cell testing facilities has been completed in the city that played a pivotal role in the development of the transport industry.Coventry University’s Centre for Advanced Low-Carbon Propulsion Systems (C-ALPS) has spent over £2m in creating a dedicated 100 sq. m. lab and hydrogen compound that will allow…
Data-based insights are driving decarbonisation through precision agriculture, ultimately delivering improvements undreamed of from farm gate to manufacturers of food and drink. Fleur Doidge investigates. In manufacturing, it’s about smarter factories using data to streamline and innovate at every step. In farming, the trend is known as precision agriculture. With the latest Intergovernmental Panel on…
More plug-in vehicles will hit British roads in 2021 than during the whole of the last decade, according to the latest forecast from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).Between 2010 and 2019, a total of 271,962 new BEVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) were registered in the UK. This year alone, SMMT says…
The current energy crisis threatens UK industry and manufacturing – but cheaper gas is not the answer in the long term. What’s needed is a fundamental change to the way we run our factories, says Innovate UK’s Dr Ben Walsh.The current spike in energy prices poses a huge problem for the UK. While rising home-heating…