In 2022, solar power provided 4.4% (13GW) of the UK's electricity generation mix. In the same year, a record 4GW of additional solar capacity was approved across the UK. With the Government's net zero target date of 2050, numbers are set to increase with renewable energy...
Renewable energy projects are now part of the low-carbon drive to reduce, end, or even reverse climate change-related damage. But a rapid increase in residential and commercial developments is also helping to tackle another significant challenge - regenerating the decaying English regions. In the north, this...
Helena Du-Roe, Senior Environmental Hydrologist at Enzygo, discusses the importance of the Humber Estuary, with a short discussion on how to defend the Humber Estuary from future flood risk. The North Sea flood of 1953 caused widespread flooding across the east of the United Kingdom (UK),...
Excess nutrient run-offs from new developments in England are now banned. The latest challenge has been to approve a robust model for assessing how much phosphorus and nitrogen is involved that threaten biodiversity and highly-protected species. That question has now been answered. The basic problem is...