A UK based consortium is to develop automated methods to produce products for use in the emerging field of regenerative medicine.

Siemens Energy has signed a contract to supply 21 of its SWT 2.3-93 wind turbines to Energie Baden-Württemberg for the Baltic 1 offshore wind farm.

A civil engineering contractor from Bolton has been fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £9,684 to the Environment Agency for polluting Barkin Beck with silt.

Balfour Beatty has been awarded a contract of £241 million to widen the M1 from Junction 6A to Junction 10 for the UK Highways Agency.

The UK Department for Business and Regulatory Reform is inviting interested parties to give their views on new EC proposals to revise the WEEE and RoHS directives.

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has announced that the Wylfa nuclear power station is to continue generating electricity beyond December 2010 for up to two additional years.

Sasol has become the first company worldwide to receive international approval for a synthetic jet fuel produced by its proprietary Coal to Liquids process.

Aston University and Drayson Racing are to investigate second-generation biofuels in order to create high-performance cars with reduced CO2 emissions.

Oxford University researchers are hoping to create a spin-out company to produce their low-cost transparent conducting film for photovoltaic cells, LEDs, and LCD touchscreens.

DSM, the Netherlands-based materials sciences company, is to sell its DSM Energy arm to the TAQA Abu Dhabi National Energy Company for €285m.