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Air edale International has announced the appointment of export manager, r, Asim Ansari, to the board of influential trade association Eurovent Middle East. The appointment w as proposed and ratified at Eurovent ’s recent AGM in Dubai.


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JTL has announced its new partner ship with Centr al Bedfor dshire College. The partnership, which will focus on the delivery of electrical and plumbing apprenticeships, will be taught in the Incuba part of the col lege.


e Col ship, www.jtltraining.com Switch2 Ener gy has been


selected as a partner in Pr oject Rewire-NW, which has won a shar e of £21m of funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for 10 ground-breaking smart UK energy projects. www.switch2.co.uk


Loc al councils should be given the legal authority to enforce higher standards of air quality in homes, schools and public buildings, accor ding to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). www .thebesa.com


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Adv anced’s new range of super concentr ated cleaning gels ar e now av ailable in the UK. The new range, known as A dvancedGel offer s a ‘mix and go’ appr oach which could change the face of HVA CR cleaning.


anced’s new r HYDROGEN CRUCIAL TO DECARBONISATION ATION


www.adv ancedengineering.co.uk Baxi Heating UK has proposed


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moving its P ack aged Plant Solutions business fr om its curr ent site to the company’s much larger manufacturing site in Bamber Bridge.


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Stiebel El tron’s stand at ISH 2019 has received the Excellent Architecture aw ard in the


Exhibition category of this y ear ’s German Design Awards. www.stiebel-eltron.co.uk


Fernox has welcomed new pr oduct data and project manager Sean Moussa, to the team.


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he Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers (IGEM) has called for intensified efforts aimed at creating a hydrogen economy while striving towards net zer


ero ro emissions.


IGEM was responding to the recent House of Lor ds debate on ‘technological and lifestyle efforts to address climate change’. Chief executive, Neil Atkinson, said: “How we choose to efficiently heat our homes, travel and eat will all have a significant impact on our energy use and environment.We welcome any public discussion about these critical issues including positive changes required to lifestyle behaviours. “We must together engineer the optimum whole system solution to reach zero emissions at minimum cost to the public. From a technological perspective, we must press on with the creation of a hydrogen economy as we strive towards net zero emissions. There is every chance that a combination of blue and green hydrogen production, together with expanded use of green biofuels, will make dramatic decarbonisation of


our energy system a reality – without the need for overreliance on reinforcing a reliable electricity supply.


of hydrogen in our gas grid are already well underway with momentum accelerating. Only last week, the Energy Minister reemphasised plans to accelerate the decarbonisation of our gas supplies by increasing the proportion of green gas in the grid.”


“Industry-wide projects to prove the feasibility and safety ,


The HyDeploy consortium is already trialling hydrogen blended gas at Keele University and hydrogen ready boilers ar e now a reality.


“With continued support from government and the right policy frameworks, hydrogen is very likely to play a valuable role in the critical issues of decarbonising heat and mobility, and in a more cost-effective manner to consumers than all electric solutions. Strong leadership and decisiveness are required to ramp up development and investment in the decade ahead.”


£90 MILLION UK DRIVE TO REDUCE EMISSIONS WELCOMED E nergy minister ister, Kwasi Kwarteng’s r, recent announcement that households and businesses will


benefit from £90 million investment to cut carbon emissions in industry and homes has been welcomed.


A large proportion of this investment will include funding for two of Europe’s first-ever large scale, low carbon hydrogen production plants – the first on the banks of the Mersey, the second planned for near Aberdeen. A third project will develop technology to harness offshore wind off the Grimsby coast to power electrolysis and produce hydrogen.


Hydrogen is a low/zero-emission alternative to fossil fuels which could power future industry and transport. The investment will also fund projects to trial cutting-edge technologies for switching industrial production from fossil fuels to renewables in industries such as cement and glass production. Martyn Bridges, director of


technical communications and project management atWorcester Bosch, has responded to the government’s funding towards five hydrogen projects across the UK, commenting: “The Government has awarded five UK


projects investigating whether hydrogen


is a viable option to reduce our UK carbon emissions £30m of funding.We welcome this indication of commitment by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to invest in technologies that will help decarbonise UK heating and hot water


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“Hydrogen has been explored and discussed by heating experts and scientists as a potential alternative to fossil fuels universally for quite a while.We atWorcester Bosch believe this to be a strong contender. Through funding localised projects and proposals such as the ‘Acorn’ project in Aberdeen and ‘Hynet’ scheme in Chester, we are hopeful about the prospect of hydrogen as a future heat source.We believe that this method is a very sensible approach and will prove the concept, and


subsequently acceptance, of hydrogen.” The remaining funds will be used to fund projects aimed at cutting


household emissions and bills through nine UK-wide local ‘smart energy’ projects. Over 250,000 people could have their homes powered by local renewable sources by 2030 – which could lead to their energy bills reducing by as much as half, thanks to this government funding. If successful, the 10 community pilot projects from


Rugeley near Stafford to Coleraine in Northern Ireland could revolutionise local energy generation – allowing local communities to join the frontline in the fight against climate change.


In Rugeley, a coal fired power station is to be demolished and turned into a sustainable village of 2,300 homes. Residents will benefit from thermal storage units instead of traditional gas boilers, enabling them to draw, store and heat their homes with geothermal energy from local canals and disused mine shafts.


In Coleraine, a micro-grid of nearly 100 homes will be established, powered entirely by local wind power. It will help lower household electricity bills by as much as 50 per cent and boost the contribution of renewables to the local energy mix by a quarter.


This investment in low carbon


innovation will be crucial to help end the UK’s contribution to climate change by 2050.


This news comes just two weeks after the prime minister announced plans to bring forward the phase-out of coal to 2024 as we continue to ramp up our Year of Climate Action ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November.


March 2020


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