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UK Met Office and NESO Sign MoU to Boost Climate Resilience Across Britain’s Energy System (10 Nov 2025)

UK Met Office and NESO Sign MoU to Boost Climate Resilience Across Britain’s Energy System (10 Nov 2025)

Published: 10 November 2025 • Topic: Energy, Climate Resilience, UK Infrastructure Summary: The UK Met Office and the National Energy System Operator (NESO) have formalised a memorandum of understanding to hard‑wire advanced weather and climate intelligence into the planning and operation of Great Britain’s energy system—aiming to improve resilience, support renewables, and protect consumers amid more frequent extreme weather. Met Office What’s happened The Met Office and NESO have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on Britain’s shift to a clean, resilient and affordable energy system. The agreement emphasises using the Met Office’s forecasting and climate expertise to
10 November 2025
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SSE (LON:SSE) edges higher as new sustainability chief starts; SSEN signs housing deals and completes Southampton upgrade — 5 November 2025

SSE (LON:SSE) edges higher as new sustainability chief starts; SSEN signs housing deals and completes Southampton upgrade — 5 November 2025

Published: 5 November 2025 At a glance SSE share price today SSE shares finished essentially flat on Wednesday, closing near 1,889p after a tight session that saw the FTSE‑100 utility trade between 1,859.45p and 1,896.50p. Turnover was ~3.62 million shares, with the previous close at 1,888p. The modest uptick keeps the stock within touching distance of its 52‑week high. Hargreaves Lansdown Leadership: Rhian Kelly starts as Chief Sustainability Officer SSE confirmed Rhian Kelly has joined this week as CSO, succeeding long‑serving sustainability lead Rachel McEwen. Kelly arrives from a comparable role at National Grid and is expected to help drive
5 November 2025
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Trash to Cash: Waste Management (WM) Stock Shines on Cash Flow and Sustainability Drive

Trash to Cash: Waste Management (WM) Stock Shines on Cash Flow and Sustainability Drive

Stock Performance and Recent Trends Waste Management’s stock has been relatively steady in recent weeks, moving only modestly amid a volatile broader market. On October 27, WM shares closed around $213.77 (down just –0.4% for the day) ahead of its earnings release stockanalysis.com. In after-hours trading following the results, the stock dipped roughly 2% to about $209 as investors digested the slight revenue miss and cautious guidance update. Overall, WM’s price has fallen about 0.8% over the past week and ~1.8% in the past month tradingview.com, a mild pullback largely in line with its sector. Year-to-date, WM is up approximately 6–7% tickernerd.com – a respectable gain though
27 October 2025
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Bahrain’s First Solar Power Plant: 150MW Tender to Power 6,300 Homes & Slash 100,000t CO₂

Bahrain’s First Solar Power Plant: 150MW Tender to Power 6,300 Homes & Slash 100,000t CO₂

First Ever Saudi-Funded Solar Tender in Bahrain Bahrain’s EWA formally launched the tender on Oct. 16, 2025 for the kingdom’s first utility-scale PV plant renewablesnow.com. President Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed called it “one of the most prominent strategic projects” for Bahrain’s clean energy push renewablesnow.com. The detailed tender documents specify a Bilaj Al Jazayer Solar IPP of at least 100 MWac (150 MWdc), allowing scale up to the originally announced 150 MW. Bids from experienced developers are due by Dec 28, 2025 taiyangnews.info. The winning bidder will sign a long-term power purchase/operation deal under a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) model pv-tech.org taiyangnews.info. In practice, the private
22 October 2025
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Superwood vs Steel: How This “10x-Strong” Wood Could Revolutionize Construction

Superwood vs Steel: How This “10x-Strong” Wood Could Revolutionize Construction

What is Superwood and Who’s Behind It? “Superwood” is not a sci-fi material but the latest engineered timber from InventWood, a Frederick, MD startup. Based on a breakthrough by Prof. Liangbing Hu (Univ. of Maryland), Superwood is ordinary wood (or even bamboo) transformed into a super-strong material timesofindia.indiatimes.com inc.com. After Hu’s 2018 Nature paper on transparent wood, he spent years refining the process. In 2021 InventWood spun out of academia, and today it holds 140+ patents on wood densification. InventWood CEO Alex Lau says the treated wood “behaves like wood but is much stronger and lighter,” envisioning buildings that are
14 October 2025
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Aqua Metals (AQMS) Rockets on Battery-Recycling Breakthroughs and Strategic Deals

Aqua Metals (AQMS) Rockets on Battery-Recycling Breakthroughs and Strategic Deals

Company and Technology Overview Aqua Metals is a pre-revenue “moonshot”-type company that has been known for recycling lead-acid batteries with its AquaRefining™ technology, and is now pivoting to lithium-ion batteries. ts2.tech Its patented process shreds spent Li-ion batteries into “black mass” and uses only water and electricity (no furnaces or toxic acids) to extract lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese and copper. The result, the company says, is very pure battery materials with far lower emissions than traditional smelting ts2.tech ts2.tech. For example, Aqua Metals recently reported it produced lithium carbonate with under 30 ppm fluorine – meeting stringent battery-grade specifications – and
14 October 2025
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Rocket Lab Rockets to New Heights on Huge Japan Deals – Is the Boom Sustainable?

Rocket Lab Rockets to New Heights on Huge Japan Deals – Is the Boom Sustainable?

Rocket Lab’s dramatic rise reflects both tech execution and a booming small-satellite market. As of early Oct 2025, RKLB trades near $70 (Nasdaq close $66.42 on Oct 9 stockanalysis.com), compared to the low-$50s in late September stockanalysis.com. The company’s Electron rocket has delivered reliable launches for dozens of customers (governments and commercial) this year. Founder Sir Peter Beck calls it “the world’s most frequently launched orbital small rocket” globenewswire.com. Investors and partners point to Electron’s track record: iQPS’s CEO noted that four SAR satellites launched in 2025 “reaffirmed our confidence in the rocket’s reliability,” giving them comfort to book 3
10 October 2025
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Green Chemicals Market Booming to $300 Billion – Inside the Eco-Friendly Chemistry Revolution

Green Chemicals Market Booming to $300 Billion – Inside the Eco-Friendly Chemistry Revolution

Introduction: What Are Green Chemicals? Green chemicals – sometimes called bio-based or renewable chemicals – are chemical products designed with sustainability in mind. Unlike conventional petrochemicals derived from oil and gas, green chemicals are made from renewable resources (such as plant biomass, algae, or waste) and engineered to minimize environmental and health impacts throughout their lifecycle einpresswire.com. This means using cleaner production processes, reducing hazardous byproducts, and creating end-products that are often biodegradable or easier to recycle. Green chemicals span a wide range of materials and compounds: bio-plastics, biofuels, organic acids, alcohols, solvents, and specialty chemicals produced via fermentation or
18 September 2025
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Saltwater Revolution: How Osmotic Power Could Be the Next Big Clean Energy Source

Saltwater Revolution: How Osmotic Power Could Be the Next Big Clean Energy Source

What Is Osmotic Power and How Does It Work? Osmotic power (or salinity gradient energy) is electricity generated from the natural process of osmosis – the movement of water across a membrane from a dilute solution to a salty solution theguardian.com. At river deltas where freshwater meets the ocean, immense chemical energy is continuously released as the two mix. Osmotic power plants capture a portion of this energy by separating fresh and salt water with special membranes in a controlled setting theguardian.com. The concept has been studied since at least the 1970s, but only in recent years have technological advances
10 September 2025
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Inside the Battery Revolution: How Your Smartphone Will Charge Faster, Last Longer, and Save the Planet

Inside the Battery Revolution: How Your Smartphone Will Charge Faster, Last Longer, and Save the Planet

Most smartphone batteries retain about 80% of their capacity after 500 complete charge cycles (roughly 1.5–2 years). Xiaomi demonstrated 210W HyperCharge that can fill a 4,000 mAh battery in about 8 minutes. Qi2 was announced in 2023 and supports up to 15W wireless charging, with the iPhone 15 (late 2024) first to officially support it. In 2024 Apple switched the iPhone to USB-C, enabling universal high-powered charging and compatibility with GaN chargers. Apple’s Optimized Battery Charging pauses charging near 80% until needed, while Google’s Pixel Adaptive Charging schedules the final 20% to finish by your alarm time. Honor Magic5 Pro
30 July 2025
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World Court Climate Bombshell, Hydrogen Stalls, and EV Breakthroughs – Climate Tech News Roundup (July 23–24, 2025)

World Court Climate Bombshell, Hydrogen Stalls, and EV Breakthroughs – Climate Tech News Roundup (July 23–24, 2025)

The United Nations’ International Court of Justice on July 23 issued an advisory opinion declaring climate change an urgent and existential threat and urged states to cooperate to achieve concrete emission reduction targets, warning of potential compensation claims for wealthy polluters under international law. On July 23, the Trump administration moved to dismantle the EPA’s endangerment finding by arguing federal law does not require carbon emission limits, with a draft proposal to overturn the 2009 finding aiming to derail virtually all U.S. climate pollution rules. In the UK, Masdar (UAE) and Iberdrola (Spain) secured £3.6 billion financing for the 1.4
24 July 2025
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June–July 2025 Global Green-Building Tech & PropTech Roundup

June–July 2025 Global Green-Building Tech & PropTech Roundup

Rowan University opened the Jean & Ric Edelman Fossil Park Museum in late June 2025, a mass-timber building that runs fossil-fuel-free with geothermal heating and planned solar to achieve net-zero energy, designed by Buro Happold and Ennead Architects. Brooklyn College began drilling a 500-foot geothermal well in early June 2025 to retrofit a 20,000-square-foot building with a 100% geothermal heating and cooling system in a $10 million decarbonization project. Practice Greenhealth recognized 496 hospitals in June 2025 for climate-smart leadership, with a Top 25 cohort highlighted for exemplary performance in renewable energy use and resilience. USGBC rolled out a sustainability
8 July 2025
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