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New Study Explores Biomass as Key to Long-Duration Energy Storage

New Study Explores Biomass as Key to Long-Duration Energy Storage

A new study has underlined the potential for biomass to play a central role in the UK’s energy transition, offering long-duration storage capacity to complement wind and solar power while also…

UK Floating Wind Faces Test as Projects, Investors, and Policy Collide

UK Floating Wind Faces Test as Projects, Investors, and Policy Collide

UK ambitions to scale floating offshore wind to help meet net‑zero goals face renewed strain as project exits, financing pressures, and CfD timing reshape the sector’s outlook. The UK aims to…

MCA Launches Extended Dry-Docking Scheme

MCA Launches Extended Dry-Docking Scheme

The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has launched an extended dry-docking (EDD) scheme for qualifying UK vessels that will allow ships to undergo a single dry-dock over the course of seven…

Offshore Wind Developers Pledge £100m to Make Belfast Harbour a Major Irish Sea Hub

Offshore Wind Developers Pledge £100m to Make Belfast Harbour a Major Irish Sea Hub

Developers of the Mona and Morgan offshore wind projects have committed more than £100 million to transform Belfast Harbour into a major assembly and marshalling hub for two of the largest wind farms…

APL and Samsung Demonstrate CHESS Thermoelectrics That Double Cooling Efficiency

APL and Samsung Demonstrate CHESS Thermoelectrics That Double Cooling Efficiency

Researchers have demonstrated a manufacturable thin‑film thermoelectric technology that substantially improves solid‑state refrigeration performance and promises a scalable alternative to…

Researchers Demonstrate Solar Thermal Trap Opening Path for Industrial Heat Decarbonisation

Researchers Demonstrate Solar Thermal Trap Opening Path for Industrial Heat Decarbonisation

Researchers at ETH Zurich have experimentally demonstrated a thermal‑trap device that concentrates sunlight and suppresses radiative losses to achieve temperatures of 1,050°C. A milestone for using…

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Metal‑Organic Frameworks

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Metal‑Organic Frameworks

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metalorganic frameworks.  This is a new form of molecular…

What Are Nanomaterials?

What Are Nanomaterials?

Unbelievably small, but infinitely impressive, nanomaterials are a next generation technology that is used in everything from medical innovation to cosmetics. But what makes a nanomaterial so…

UK’s First Geothermal Simulation Platform Unveiled

UK’s First Geothermal Simulation Platform Unveiled

Aberdeen-based 3t and Robert Gordon University (RGU) have joined forces to develop the UK’s inaugural Geothermal Simulation and Modelling Platform.  Adapting RGU’s DrillSIM:5000 oil-and-gas…

Aecom Appointed to Support Nuclear Waste Programmes

Aecom Appointed to Support Nuclear Waste Programmes

Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has named Aecom as a framework partner to deliver design and engineering services in support of its remediation and disposal programmes at the low-level waste repository…