Wednesday, 07 December 2016
by Andrew Kneeshaw
The power of people
We have launched our musical video Christmas card, after discovering that a third of our staff are accomplished (well, maybe pretty good) musicians. Thursday, 24 November 2016
by Andrew Kneeshaw
Wake up and save some money!!!
We’re doing a series of energy audits, at the moment, for some sizable energy using clients of one of our corporate customers. They’ve included numerous factories, offices, call centres, farms and workshops all over the country, from the South Coast all the way up to Scotland. Friday, 15 July 2016
by Jon Swain
Electricity can be more expensive than petrol on the motorway!
For several years, Ecotricity has been providing ‘free to use’ charging points at motorway service stations, amongst other locations, for electric vehicle owners. Wednesday, 06 July 2016
by Andrew Kneeshaw
Make savings to offset higher energy prices
Electricity prices took off last week and at this rate, we’ll soon be looking at them returning to levels seen 12 months ago. If you are going to cut costs, you’re going to have to look closely at something other than cheaper tariffs. Wednesday, 25 May 2016
by Ed Hardy
LEDs in space
Water cooled LED lights have made their way into space! Safe food production is an ongoing issue for the EDEN Institute of Space Systems project. Heliospectra AB, working as part of this project, has designed high intensity LED grow lights to be used for this purpose on both the Internation Space Tuesday, 12 April 2016
by Chris Plackett
Budget announcement impacts on future CCL costs and savings
In his budget speech on March 16th, George Osbourne made some interesting energy related announcements. For many, the most significant news was that the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (known as the CRC) will end on 1st April 2019. Tuesday, 08 March 2016
by Frances Christodoulou
Energy efficient potatoes
Ed and myself have been out and about with our research caps on recently, visiting potato stores, and examining how the store environment is manipulated to maintain potato quality during the crop storage phase. Tuesday, 23 February 2016
by Ed Hardy
Goodbye, Mr Chips
So, they let me out again. Clearly the Powers That Be didn’t read my last blog, as my request for a cosy, warm greenhouse went ignored! This week's location: a potato store. As I arrived, a HGV was being loaded with around 40 tonnes of potatoes, ready to go to a frozen chip producer. Monday, 25 January 2016
by Jenny Beynon
Renewable energy storage in the UK
Western Power Distribution has committed to investigate the technical and commercial feasibility of battery energy storage within distributed generation installations in the UK. As a result, they have commissioned Renewable Energy Systems (RES) to build and support its first major UK battery energy Thursday, 07 January 2016
by Jon Swain
