Locogen’s Planning & Environment team has secured yet another consent for a 1MW wind turbine, but this time for Land Energy at their key production site near Girvan in South Ayrshire. This onshore wind project will help Land Energy, a leading supplier of wood pellets and briquettes, take another step to reach their net zero […]
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The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on 22nd November 2023 provided welcome and long overdue measures to incentivise renewable energy projects in the UK. Policy impacting renewables in the UK has been turbulent over the past decade and there has been much uncertainty in the market stalling investment. We are hopeful that this is the start of
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Renewables specialists Locogen and hydrogen experts Logan Energy are welcoming the news that planning permission has been granted for their wind turbine and electrolyser project at Arbikie Distillery near Montrose. The development will enable the distillery to power its operations from environmentally-sustainable green hydrogen – that is hydrogen created using renewable electricity from the wind
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Hull City Council have appointed specialists in the renewable energy sector, including Locogen, to assess the feasibility of the council’s corporate sites for the installation of a number of green energy projects. The council are looking at installing rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV), solar farms, wind turbines, and solar canopies across their corporate sites. Locogen have
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Co-locating long duration battery storage with intermittent renewable generation has enormous potential to revolutionise and decarbonise the UK power grid. The Longer Duration Energy Storage Demonstration (LODES) Competition, run by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has awarded Locogen and partners, CellCube, GridBeyond, and Blackfinch Energy with £121,400 to assess the techno-economic
The Arbikie Highland Estate Distillery near Montrose is one step closer to becoming net zero thanks to £3 million of government funding granted to UK renewables company Locogen in partnership with hydrogen technologies specialist Logan Energy. The Phase 2 funding comes from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Net Zero Innovation Portfolio
Latest data from NASA’s Vital Signs indicate the world has already warmed by 1°C since the start of the industrial era when carbon dioxide concentration in the air was near 280 parts per million (ppm). Today carbon dioxide concentration is at 417 ppm. A quarter of this increase has occurred in the last 20 years. Such rates of increase are
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Work undertaken by Locogen to support Greenspace Scotland’s ParkPower programme has led directly to a successful Green Growth Accelerator (GGA) funding bid by North Lanarkshire Council. This will progress a project based around Strathclyde Country Park known as ‘Green Park, Green Power, Green Neighbourhood’. The GGA funding programme is run by the Scottish Government and
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On June 15th our Emerging Technologies consultancy team hosted a webinar, “How to Decarbonise Distilleries to Meet Net Zero,” in conjunction with our clients, Arbikie Highland Estate. Hosted by Locogen consultants, Dr Philippa Hardy and Jack Byres, with Arbikie director, Iain Stirling, the webinar was attracted more than 120 attendees. The session focused on the
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Locogen are proud to be working with community groups and public sector bodies to deliver on the country’s net-zero goals. It’s important that the transition to net zero is an inclusive one and here are just two projects where we are helping such organisations maximise their investment in renewable and low carbon solutions, while providing
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