Two rescuers die in Thai waste-to-electricity plant gas leak (10 June 2013)
Two men died trying to rescue a husband and wife caught in a gas leak overnight at a power plant under construction in Yan Ta Khao, Trang province, 680 kilometres south of Bangkok. The two men, a New Zealand engineer and a Thai employee, tried to save the couple who had passed out in a three-metre wide, three-story ventilation chimney.
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Engineering consultancy appointed for UK tidal energy project (18 April 2013)
Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay (TLSB) has appointed KGAL to provide design, mechanical and electrical consultancy services for the proposed 250MW Swansea Bay hydrokinetic lagoon scheme. The £650 million project will use tidal swells in the Severn Estuary to power a number of hydro turbines installed in the lagoon's walls.
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Bosch Chairman says US shale gas is killing off green technologies (09 April 2013)
Bosch Chairman Franz Fehrenbach said in a recent edition of
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that the decline in energy prices caused by the glut in US shale gas production was wiping out European manufacturers of alternative technologies, particular solar and photovoltaic manufacturers.
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Australian scientists develop low-cost CCS technology (14 March 2013)
Scientists from Monash University and Australia's national science agency CSIRO have announced details of new developments in photosensitive metal organic frameworks (MOFs) that have the potential to provide cost-effective new tools to capture, store and recycle carbon dioxide.
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Saudi waste treatment plant fire kills six (02 January 2013)
Civil Defense spokesman Colonel Ali al-Qahtani told the Saudi Press Agency that six foreign workers died in a fire which broke out in a tank containing benzene and diesel mixture at the Environment Development Limited Company (EDCO) waste treatment plant in the industrial city of Jubail, eastern Saudi Arabia.
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Veolia UK fined after agency worker suffers serious burns (08 May 2012)
Waste management provider Veolia Environmental Services has been fined after an agency worker was seriously burned by hot ash at the SELCHP waste incineration plant in Deptford, southeast London.
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Immingham biomass power plant moves a step closer (23 April 2012)
A proposed £600 million biomass plant in Immingham that will create 1,000 jobs has given formal consent by the Government. The 299MW Heron power station near the Port of Immingham, which is a joint-venture between Drax and Siemens Project Ventures, is designed to generate enough electricity to power 512,000 homes.
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Drax Group scraps Selby biomass plant plans (12 March 2012)
Drax Group PLC has scrapped plans to build a dedicated 300MW biomass plant at its 4,000MW site in Selby, north Yorkshire - citing the lack of support for dedicated biomass power in the government’s Electricity Market Reform (EMR) proposals.
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Tilbury biomass plant blaze caused by fuel store fire (27 February 2012)
The UK’s first dedicated biomass power station caught fire on the morning of 27 February after a blaze in its fuel pellet store. Operator RWE npower said that no injuries had been reported at the site, and all staff were accounted for.
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HSL Wins £2million Contract with ETI (20 February 2012)
The UK’s Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) has secured a contract worth £2 million with the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to investigate the safe use of hydrogen-based fuels.
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