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Environment Agency: Scrap metal company fined for keeping and treating waste without the correct licence

Changes to the End of Life Vehicle Regulations in 2003 now require sites that keep depolluted waste vehicles to apply for a waste management licence. This is to ensure that premises had the necessary infrastructure to carry out the work safely, such as impermeable surfaces and sealed drainage systems to prevent fluids ... [more]

Fusion Marine: Boardwalk made of recycled plastic for a nature reserve in Shetland

Hermaness National Nature Reserve is located on Unst, Shetland - the most northerly part of the British Isles. The NNR is home to literally thousands of pairs of breeding birds including bonxies or great skuas and also provides a habitat for red throated divers, snipe, dunlin, golden plover and arctic skua. The reserve... [more]

Kyocera: Kyocera reduces solar cell thickness by 20%

Kyocera has announced a new achievement in its solar cell manufacturing process that offers higher efficiency in its consumption of multicrystalline silicon, the essential raw material used to make photovoltaic solar cells and modules. The new mass-production process allows Kyocera to manufacture solar cells with a ... [more]

Morphic Technologies: Morphic Technologies acquires Norwegian wind-turbine manufacturer ScanWind Group

ScanWind manufactures and markets wind turbines with a capacity of 3.5 MW and over, specially developed for extreme wind situations and demanding climates, e.g. sites near to the coast and offshore sites. Marked growth is expected in this market segment – Wind Classes IEC1 and 2. For example, BTM Consulting forecasts t... [more]

EDF Energies Nouvelles: enXco wind farm signs power purchase agreement with Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency

enXco, the US subsidiary of EDF Energies Nouvelles has announced the signing of a power purchase agreement with the Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency (SMMPA). The 20-year agreement covers the sale of the electricity generated by the 100.5 MW Wapsipinicon wind farm currently being developed in Mower County, M... [more]