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In 2020, Norway will become the first country in the world to ban the use of oil and paraffin in both private homes and businesses within the country, in an aid to rein in green house gas emissions.Under the Paris...

Burner manufacturer and distributor EOGB Energy Products Ltd has announced its backing for OFTEC’s proposals to decarbonise the UK’s 1.5 million off-grid homes by converting them to a low-carbon bio-oil, a goal that supports the government’s Clean Growth Strategy ambitions.Working...

OFTEC celebrates a major win in the fight against overbearing Ecodesign Directive requirements.The Oil Firing Technical Association (OFTEC), working closely with the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and other...

Scientists Utilise CO2 To Produce Supercapacitor Material Chemists and engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) in the USA, have discovered a fascinating new way to take some of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) that  contributes to the so-called ‘greenhouse effect’...

EDF Energy has begun the construction of the first permanent structures at its £18 billion Hinkley Point C nuclear site last week.The company, in incorporation with China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), began pouring concrete for some of its first...

UKAD&BIOGAS 2017 NEC Birmingham 05.07.17 ©Steve Pope - Fotowales* Ceremony will recognise best of the best in green gas in UK and abroad * Winners to be announced at black-tie ceremony on 11th July in Birmingham* Awards ceremony falls on...

UK country chair for Shell, Sinead Lynch, says that the oil giant knows that it “needs to change” in the coming energy transition, and “that is what Shell is going to do”.At the All-Energy conference in Glasgow, Ms Lynch, UK...