If employers did more to encourage women back to work they could help solve their recruitment shortage and unleash new skills. Anh Nguyen reports
Up to eight tonnes of green hydrogen could be made per day if a planning application to deliver the UK’s largest electrolyser is approved.
Siemens Energy has won an €84m major contract from Fluor to connect the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm to the British power grid.
Up to 135 jobs could be created in Scotland following Arcola Energy’s decision to locate its main manufacturing base on the site of a former Michelin tyre factory.
Bombardier Transportation has signed a contract with China’s Dalian Locomotives and Rolling Stock to supply 500 freight electric locomotives to the Chinese Ministry of Railways.
A new elastic material coated with microscopic, hairlike structures has been developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to tilt in response to a magnetic field.
Private funding and government grants have taken investment into fusion technology to over $4.8bn, according to a new report from the Fusion Industry Association (FIA).
REpower Systems has signed a contract to deliver 42 wind energy turbines with a total output of 84MW to Enel – the biggest utility in Italy.
The UK’s manufacturing sector, spurred on by growth in export orders, is set to lead the continuing economic recovery in 2011, according to a report published today.
Bio-based microcapsules have been added to asphalt to make roads that self-heal when cracks occur, an advance that could address the UK’s £143m pothole problem.
