Aug 11, 2020 | Heat Pump, Housing, Innovation, New Build, Renewable, Retrofit, Technology
Regular house bricks could be used to power electronics after a major breakthrough in energy storage technology. Researchers at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, discovered that the cheap and ubiquitous material could be converted into energy storage units...
Aug 6, 2020 | Industry, Innovation, New Build, Renewable, Retrofit, Solar, Technology, Wind
Pando is an energy company and share platform in the USA. Pando is a co-branded marketplace designed to directly connect energy providers to their customers and these customers to their community. ‘Block chain? And shareable community energy supply? Hum. Perhaps...
Aug 6, 2020 | Housing, Hydro, Industry, Innovation, New Build, Renewable, Retrofit, Technology
In-pipe mini-hydro technology LucidEnergy Company mission: to turn miles of gravity-fed water pipelines around the world into generators of clean, environmentally-friendly, renewable energy from in-pipe hydropower. ‘Innovations being implemented into old...
May 6, 2018 | Government, Industry, Innovation, Renewable, Solar, Wind
‘A thought provoking piece that will require solving. Though this is solar, it would also apply heavily to wind in the UK. Perhaps solutions will come through batteries and large scale storage.’ Nuable
Apr 23, 2016 | Innovation, New Build, Renewable, Retrofit, Technology, Wind
New Wind was founded by former film and television writer Jérôme Michaud-Larivière in 2011, and created its first prototype in 2013. After working through several possible iterations, the company settled on a “seemingly chaotic” arrangement of leaf-turbines on each...
Feb 29, 2016 | Innovation, Renewable, Solar
Five years in planning and finished in early March 2016, more than 23,000 solar panels will be floated on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir near Heathrow and used to generate power for local water treatment plants. Why put solar panels on water? The answer, according...