Renewable technologies are increasing in popularity due to their cost saving benefits and low maintenance costs, but also the ‘green energy’ they produce, which is vital in helping to achieve the NFU’s Net Zero target of 2040.
Energy Efficiency
In this episode, Liam Langford and Nick Spencer discuss Energy Efficiency and its importance in reaching the NFU's goal of Net Zero by 2040. They discuss the meaning of Energy Efficiency, its importance for businesses and how NFU Energy can help you on your journey to achieving Net Zero.
The future of gas use in the UK
In this episode, Nick Spencer and Jon Swain will be discussing the UK's gas market, delving into how we use gas to produce both heat and power in the UK. Jon is going to help us to understand how the use of gas in the UK has changed over the last few years and how it's likely to change going forward as we try to move away from fossil fuels.
The state of the electricity market
Nick Spencer talks with Jon Swain about the strange things that have been happening in the electricity market throughout 2020 due to COVID-19. As well as discussing the on going challenges as the UK attempts to decarbonise the electricity supply and the way we use electricity in the UK.
Capacity Market could open up to renewables
Read our top five energy related news stories from the last couple of weeks. Energy is always in the news in one way or another, from renewable energy technology advancements and the latest from the ‘big six’ energy suppliers to advancements in energy saving and sustainability.
Winter ends with a flurry for TRIADs
Today is the last day of the TRIAD Season.
Producing energy on Mars
As Elon Musk’s Space X launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time a few weeks ago with the aim to send a Tesla car and mannequin towards Mars’ orbit, we ask could life on Mars be getting closer?
AGM Forbes
AGM Forbes, based in Dundee, Scotland, grow 400 tonnes of strawberries a year and supply the major British supermarkets from May to the end of November thanks to their Anaerobic Digester (AD) and biogas Combined Heat and Power (CHP) engine.
2017 the UK’s greenest year for electricity… ever
National Grid figures recently revealed that 2017 was the ‘greenest year ever’ in terms of electricity generation in the UK. The move towards renewables, with record outputs for solar, wind and hydropower, caused record low levels of carbon pollution.
GrowSave goes to Scotland
It was a close-run thing… heavy snowfall on Sunday night in the Midlands nearly prevented the delivery of the latest GrowSave* event in St Andrews, Scotland. Fortunately, however, the roads cleared in time and all the speakers made it for Tuesday’s event.