Reductions in Nitrogen Dioxide and Particular Matter combined with fine weather during 2020 led to cleaner air conditions compared to previous five year average.
Sawsan El-Zahr from the Computing Infrastructure group has won the Internet Research Task Force Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2024 for work on sustainable networks. The prize was awarded for the research paper “Exploring the Benefits of Carbon-Aware Routing”, by Sawsan E...
Octopus Energy has taken a £200m stake in Deep Green. This could help the UK company expand on its demonstrator in the south west, which uses heat from a data centre to heat a swimming pool.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow suggest that the falling cost of access to space might enable steered, space-based reflectors to boost power output from large solar farms for a around quarter of an hour during critical peak periods when the sun would otherwise be too low in the sky.
The growth in low-carbon technologies is still falling far behind government targets.
The government is currently considering plans to build a nuclear power station with the capacity to power as many as six million homes.
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Are improvements to green technologies, like better batteries and more efficient solar panels, enough on their own to tackle climate change? Unfortunately not. Our behaviour and lifestyles must change too.
The BBC has reported that EDF Energy is planning to extend the operational life of GB power plant.