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Posted on 8th March 2021
Heat pumps will play a big part in the UK government’s commitments towards a net zero future. Within their 2020 Energy White Paper: Powering our Net Zero Future, the government has set the ambitious target of installing 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028. Though it is predicted that annual global sales of heat pumps will double by 2030 to 20.8m units, currently less than 1% of UK homes have them. But what are heat pumps?
Posted on 3rd March 2021
The Chancellor has delivered the Spring Budget 2021; please find enclosed details of those policies that may affect our clients:
Posted on 19th February 2021
Generating, supplying and using renewable energy is becoming common practice and, the success of wind and solar farms, has meant that subsidies for such investments have all but stopped. Continuing their path to net zero, the UK government set clear their plans for further renewable technologies in their Energy white paper: Powering our net zero future and one of their strategies to help reach their target is to invest in hydrogen technologies and transition away from natural gas.
Posted on 11th January 2021
This is the 4th edition of our “Energy In” series, where we look at upcoming events, key dates and news within the environmental and energy landscape for the year ahead.
Posted on 1st December 2020
Over 500 North Korean fishing boats have been found washed up on the shores of Japan, often containing dead fisherman, over the last 5 years. These washed up vessels have been labelled “Ghost Boats”. The dead bodies aboard these ships were often decomposed beyond recognition, but it was expected that they died of starvation, hypothermia or dehydration. North Korean fishing vessels are relatively small. With a distance of 600 miles (965km) between North Korea and Japan, it raises the question of why these fishermen would risk travelling so far from their own shores.
