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Latest environmental company news
Residents living in Shiremoor, North Tyneside are set to save more than £19,000 collectively on their energy bills and reduce their carbon emissions by over 100 tonnes in the next year, thanks to a package of green refurbishments by Kier North Tyneside.
The scheme to improve the energy efficiency of social housing involves large-scale refurbishments to almost 50 homes in the area with a view to rolling the project out across the remaining properties in North Tyneside.
The work to the prefa... [more]
Riverside Waste Machinery, Veolia Environmental Services and Kelpack have helped Derby Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust achieve significant security, cost and environmental improvements, following investment by the Trust in a new confidential waste management system.
Confidential hospital waste which was previously transported and incinerated off-site to create energy from waste, is now being shredded and recycled in a move which is improving the hospital’s carbon footprint.
Simon Marriott,... [more]
Solar energy has become Kyocera's fastest-growing business globally, with the company expanding production capacity aggressively to meet growing worldwide demand. Kyocera has begun manufacturing solar modules in San Diego, Calif., to serve the U.S. market's growing demand for clean, sustainable solar electric generating systems. The U.S. module production line will support a new milestone for Kyocera's solar energy business - global production volume targeting 1,000 megawatts of solar cells per ... [more]
KBR has been chosen to provide engineering services for a pilot plant designed to produce fuel from algae. It was recently announced that the plant, to be located in South East Queensland, Australia, is to receive approximately USD$1.3m of funding from the Queensland Government.
KBR will provide engineering services for the project. Construction is planned to begin in August and the plant is expected to be operational within six months. KBR will provide a range of services, including design f... [more]
Foster Wheeler AG has announced the successful start of commercial operation of a large-scale, 125 MWe (385 MWth), circulating fluidized-bed (CFB) boiler island delivered to Kaukaan Voima Oy, in Finland. Kaukaan Voima Oy is owned by Pohjolan Voima Oy (PVO) and Lappeenrannan Energia Oy.
The new biomass unit fires a combination of biomass and peat and has the capability to fully fire either fuel, supplying process steam and electricity to the adjacent UPM-Kymmene Corporation's pulp and paper m... [more]
Kyocera Corporation has announced that it has supplied 9,000 solar modules for a large-scale solar power plant in the Czech Republic. Covering an area of more than 28,000 m2, the plant delivers an output of 1.2 megawatts (MW).
In the South Moravian farming village of Moravský Žižkov, 8,960 Kyocera KD135GH-2PU solar modules are currently producing solar energy. When selecting products for solar installations, the Czech company Nelumbo put its trust in Kyocera. Due to the many hours of sunshine... [more]
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