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IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has invested $20 million in Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based company that deploys small, low-orbiting satellites to photograph remote and emerging parts of the world to help with disaster response, agriculture and urban planning.

The Glasgow manufacturers responsible for the invention of the world’s largest zero carbon 90 0 C district heat pump which uses rivers, lakes, reservoirs and the sea to generate heating and cooling has been shortlisted for the Cleantech Innovate Scotland award.

New analysis published today by the Carbon Trust quantifies the benefits of introducing ‘ice pigging’, an innovative way of cleaning pipework using ice slurries, into commercial dairies to improve profitability and reduce environmental impact.

Fracking expert Chris Faulkner, CEO of Dallas-based Breitling Energy Corporation has described yesterday’s announcement that there could be 100 billion barrels of oil in the Jurassic Kimmeridge formation near Gatwick as a gamechanger for England.

London quoted UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC is has announced that US-based Nutech Ltd estimate that the Horse Hill-1 well in the Weald Basin has a total oil in place (OIP) of 158 million barrels per square mile (MMBO), with the potential for significant daily oil production.

Innovative water and wastewater treatment company ArviaTM Technology has secured £4 million in its latest round of investment funding. The company is now embarking on a series of demonstration installations in industrial treatment facilities.

Severn Trent Water’s new wind turbines, Winnie and Tony at Derby, yesterday started turning intermittently, as the world’s first 3D holographic radar system is brought into operation to support them.

NATIONAL HEAT MAP IMAGEThe Department for Energy and Climate Change says that a new online tool for communities has revealed that at least one million homes and businesses across England could be tapping into clean renewable heat embodied in the country's waterways.

Wave Energy Scotland (WES), a new research and development body funded by the Scottish Government, is open for business with the launch of its first international technology innovation competition for developers in the UK and across the EU.

The Crown Estate, Marine Scotland and the Welsh Government have announced they will be funding Aquatera Ltd and their delivery partners MarineSpace and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) to run a secretariat function for the new Offshore Renewables Joint Industry Programme (ORJIP) for Ocean Energy.

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