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The Inflation Reduction Act took a significant step forward over the weekend as US vice-president Kamala Harris cast a decisive vote.

Wirsol Energy has received development approval for its Maryvale solar and energy storage project in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.

Bank CIT will be the lead arranger of financing for Swell Energy's pipeline of behind-the-meter commercial energy storage projects in California.

E-mobility and energy storage company New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA) has started installation work on an LFP-based 100MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Western Australia, the state's largest.

Stem Inc grew revenues 246% in quarter two 2022 and ended the period with a contracted backlog of US$727 million.

Bechtel has been selected to work on design and planning of a large-scale pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in Queensland.

The Department of Planning and Environment in New South Wales gave development approval to a proposed 500MW/1,000MWh battery storage project.

US geothermal energy company Ormat Technologies’ energy storage division achieved gross margin of 25.3% in Q2 2022.

Private equity firm ArcLight Capital Partners has agreed to acquire 185MW of operational wind farms and 80MWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) developments from GlidePath Power Solutions.

Neoen saw its energy storage revenues triple in the first half of this year, driven by its Victorian Big Battery in Australia.

It is popular to blame the invasion of Ukraine on rising energy inflation, particularly oil and gas prices, but there are sound structural reasons why the cost of generating electricity from these sources will continue to rise globally in the coming years. Russia’s militarism is a humanitarian disaster and will place inflationary pressures on food prices, but despite these problems, the UK government is hiding behind the short-term consequences and is not honestly communicating the real economic cost of moving to net-zero by 2050 and meeting the planned carbon reductions by 2030. In addition, the policy measures such as raising interest rates that are being promoted by many economists to meet the problem of stagflation (rising prices and falling output) will only exacerbate the pathology, while making the transition to a low-carbon future more painful.

The EnviroTech team was delighted to be a part of St Patrick’s Day Parade in London and provide power to the BITA band via one of our power packs!

Dinner with Paul Whitnel and Dermot O’Grady

On November 19th 2021, our CEO Stephen Jones took part in ep. 23 of LíR Media TV's business show titled 'Sustainable Solutions'.

The EnviroTech team were incredibly honoured to receive The Building Innovation Awards much-coveted 'Most Innovative Energy Project' award for their EnviroTech Energy Station.

As the economy resurfaces from the Covid-19 restrictions, old coal plants and nuclear reactors are due to be shut down. As a result, Britain will face its most significant threat of blackouts in six years.

The installation of an innovative “Energy Station” by Envirotech is helping GRAHAM to reduce its carbon footprint and manage power demands more efficiently at Eton College.

The installation of an innovative renewable "Energy Station" is helping GRAHAM to reduce its carbon footprint and power demands at Eton College.

The main theme of Attenborough’s program is the loss of the natural world and the consequential threat of climate change. This is far from a looming danger. It is already happening.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has stated it will bring forward secondary legislation to exempt all size storage facilities (except pumped hydro) from the national planning regime in England.

Transforming the British economy to achieve Net Zero by 2050 will need the spending of billions of pounds in new investment on a green infrastructure.

The Committee on Climate Change is today steadfast in its appeal that from the pandemic can arise opportunity, and all that’s required is for government to grasp it.

The expected rate of return on battery storage facilities is rising sharply as demand is far outpacing supply. In the short-term the imbalances stemming from the fall off in the demand for electricity stemming from the COVID-19 induced downturn in economic activity is pushing up the utilisation of off grid batteries.

EnviroTech Energy Management has put measures in place to help protect its team, investors, and clients during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Even though our London offices are currently closed, it’s still very much business as usual!

Cambridgeshire County Council has unveiled plans for a 2.7MW solar farm, and battery storage plant in Stanground near Peterborough according to local news Peterborough matters.

The pipeline of energy storage projects in the Republic of Ireland has reached 2.1GW in April 2020 according to the first release of a research report by trade publication Solar Media.

The Bank of England is missing out on a crucial opportunity to nudge the British economy further in a green direction through its asset purchasing scheme for corporate bonds.

Civic leaders in Exeter have outlined plans to turn the city carbon neutral by 2030 and have identified the need for investment in reduced energy use, storage capacity, cleaner power, electrifying transport and in infrastructure.

The importance of the role which energy storage can play in providing energy security across the power delivery network, has been brought home as households and those business and institutions still operating in Britain are threatened by the risk of power blackouts as a result of the corona virus pandemic.

The growth in renewables with an intermittent generation of electricity supply means that Scotland will require a considerable expansion in grid level storage capacity.

Governments attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015 affirmed that a global shift to sustainable energy is essential to avoid the damage of catastrophic climate change.

Power can be produced by burning biomass instead of fossil fuels, thus greatly decreasing the amount of C02 released into the atmosphere. This technology is one of the easiest to adopt and while it’s not 100% clean, it’s much less damaging than the traditional energy sources and can be described as carbon neutral when proper safeguards are applied.

Capturing the kinetic energy of the water is one of the earliest clean energy generation methods, and it remains just as important today. Hydroelectric power can be very affordable and doesn’t deplete the resource it relies on, but usually requires large and complex projects before the exploitation can begin.

Another frequently overlooked energy source, ambient air can be a valuable heating method in many situations. Heat pumps are a great way to produce thermal energy without polluting the atmosphere, which is why they are being adopted on a global scale. This technology is notable for low carbon emissions and low entry investments, so there are very few obstacles preventing its further growth.

At the present time, ground source heat and other forms of geothermal energy exploitation are an under-appreciated method for clean energy collection. This could change in the near future, as cost-effective technologies are becoming more widely available.

Offshore and onshore wind farms are contributing to an increasing percentage of clean energy globally, and this figure can be expected to continue to rise. The advantages of wind power outweigh any complications associated with the construction of wind farms, which is the reason for the proliferation of such structures in many developed countries.

While solar power has a reputation for being available and affordable, the vast range of possibilities is often still poorly communicated to the general public. In addition to standard solar panels, there are also solar thermal technologies, which are increasingly gaining attention as viable alternatives to fossil fuels.

We attended the Solar Power Portal Awards 2018 and were proud sponsors of the Best Financial Transaction of the Year Award which was awarded to Lightsource BP.

The co-founders of Envirotech Mr. Christopher Hill and Mr. Steve Wheeler met with the Vice President of Sungrow Samsung James Wu for a consultation on using Sungrow Samsung batteries.