One of the previous winners of the award is Sir Mark Moody-Stuart the former Shell chairman who won the award in 2001.

The award will be presented at a banquet during the annual Oil & Money Conference. The hosts of the event, The International Herald & Tribune and the independent publishing firm Energy Intelligence said “The choice of Andrew Gould by his petroleum industry peers underscores the increasingly critical technical and commercial contributions being made by oilfield services companies in tapping unconventional and other more challenging oil and gas reserves. Under Gould’s leadership, Schlumberger has been at the forefront in this sector as a critically important partner for both major international oil companies and state-owned firms around the globe”.

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Last year, KTI withdrew its plans to build the plant at either Crays Hill in Billericay, or Nevendon in Wickford, as a result of stiff opposition from residents and Basildon Council. However, this newly-proposed site is currently owned by Barrie Stone, who happens to be in favour of the project, and said:

“This particular site is not near residents and is available for 24-hour operation”

If KTI is granted planning permission for the power plant, it will generate electricity by incinerating thousands of tonnes of organic materials as part of a programme being overseen by the East of England Development Agency, a Government body which promotes growth in the area.

Source: thisistotalessex.co.uk

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David Kidney made the announcements in the North East where he was meeting representatives from business and education to discuss skills and green jobs.

The Offshore Wind Accelerator is a research and development collaboration between the Carbon Trust and offshore wind developers. Its aim is to develop innovative technologies which will hopefully reduce the cost of wind farm development.

The new training tower is at the New and Renewable Energy Centre (NAREC) in Blyth. The tower will help both locals and others from across the country get the skills needed to work on offshore wind turbines.

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Source: Department of Energy & Climate Change

Hosted IP PBX Overlay is one option that allows companies to keep their existing PBX and handsets but also have the added benefit of essential unified communications features and capabilities at the same time.

Unified Communications – UC, integrates email, voicemail, instant messaging, mobile communications, desk phones, document and desktop sharing and video, web and audio conferencing into a single sophisticated communications and IT solution utilising Microsoft applications.

Features of Hosted IP PBX Overlay include the ability to make external calls from existing everyday tools including Outlook contacts, email and other Microsoft Office applications, along with the option to add Auto Attendant – which enables businesses to provide a personalised message to callers – delivering extra professionalism and customer service.

According to research from International Data Corporation, IP PBX now accounts for 36.1% of companies choosing IP telephony solutions. Outsourcery offers this new service for a low fixed monthly rental, with the ability to expand as your business grows.

Plus, the IP PBX Overlay service is hosted at Outsourcery’s state of the art data centre, ensuring high quality support and service is always on hand.

Source: outsourcery.co.uk

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npower, one of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers, serving residential and business consumers, then became the first supplier to launch its own boiler scrappage scheme – matching the Government’s £400 grant. Consequently, the combined schemes mean that customers could be eligible to receive up to £800 towards the cost of a new boiler – when upgrading a G rated boiler to an energy efficient A rated boiler.

Kevin Miles, the CEO of npower retail remarked:

“The scrappage scheme has proven to be extremely popular and if take-up continues at the same rate, we expect the Government’s scheme to close in April. However, there are still approximately four million households with G-Rated boilers in the UK, which is why we are pledging to continue npower’s boiler scrappage scheme”

npower’s scheme is slightly different from the Government’s scheme, because customers only have to have a boiler that is over 10 years old to be eligible to receive a £400 discount against a new boiler installation from the npower hometeam.

Source: npowermediacentre.com

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The designer of the new turbine is James Mowat who owns the Caithness business MTDS. He spent three years working on the device. Rather than designing the device in the conventional way so that it looks like an underwater wind mill, the design uses vertical rotors in a similar way to a revolving door.

Mr Mowat says the device will minimise the environmental impact of renewable energy generation. It also means that it will be possible to generate power from slow currents which were previously regarded as not being viable.

The Amazon trial will start towards the end of 2010 and will last for 12 months.

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Source: news.scotsman.com

Today, SSE in collaboration with industry leading energy companies Doosan Babcock and Vattenfall, has been awarded £6.3 million by the Department of Energy and Climate Change – DECC, the Technology Strategy Board and Northern Way – towards its 5 Megawatt (MW) carbon capture trial at their Ferrybridge Power Station.

The projects main aim is to demonstrate the carbon capture element of the process over a two year period. But the facility, which is the biggest carbon capture facility in the country, will not operate commercially during this two year trial.

This announcement comes as Yorkshire and Humber was named by Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband as the first low carbon economic area for Carbon Capture and Storage. Utility Exchange recently reported on this in our Business Energy News http://www.utility-exchange.co.uk/2010/03/carbon-capture-and-storage-strategy/

Source: Scottish-southern.co.uk

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They are considering privatising E-Serve which is a division of Ofgem and administers around £4 billion of government backed environmental programmes. E-Serve is a self financing part of Ofgem getting money from fees levied on utility companies operating wind farms and other renewable electricity generation.

E-Serve is regarded as a potentially very profitable business. Revenues are expected to grow over the next few years as the Government moves to cut carbon emissions and move towards a greener economy.

E-Serve runs the Renewable Obligation Certificate which supports wind and tidal power investment projects and also the Feed-In Tariff set to increase the development of micro-generation schemes including solar power and small wind turbines. It’s also E-Serve’s responsibility to bring in smart meters and run the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target Scheme.

At the moment Ofgem has a budget of £40 million and The Conservatives are looking at ways of reducing this figure. They would rather see Ofgem as being purely a market regulator in a similar way to the Office of Fair Trading.

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Source: The Times Online

This great family orientated event will take place over the weekend of Saturday 10th and Sunday the 11th of April at the County Ground at Claro Road – here, the festival will play host to over 110 teams and more than 1320 players.

The Harrogate Rugby Festival is the largest junior event in the North of England with all proceeds going towards the running and maintaining of junior rugby for all ages in the Harrogate area.

CNG’s managing director, Jacqui Hall, commented:

“Last years event was a tremendous success and it was wonderful to see so many youngsters with a passion for rugby. We are very excited to be sponsoring the event again this year and watching more talent from the North of England’s finest players”

CNG was formed in 1994 following the deregulation of the UK gas industry and has since seen a satisfying growth of commercial customers. Today, CNG is working hard to find ways of making natural gas a positive choice in the drive for a greener future.

Source: cngltd.co.uk

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According to an issues press release, British Gas points out that although the Government – which currently spends £2.7 billion per annum on the Winter Fuel Allowance – helps all pensioners, it does not make any sense why ‘wealthy pensioners and people living on the Costa Del Sol’ should receive assistance when there are millions of low income families going without.

In support of the coalition, British Gas is also calling on the Government to reform the winter fuel allowance targeting those who need it most. Furthermore it wants to ensure that the allowance is credited directly to the consumers’ fuel bill – where, with support from energy supplier, this could more than halve energy bills for the poorest.

For a number of years now, British Gas has worked with various non-governmental organisations – NGOs and the voluntary sector as it tries to help alleviate fuel poverty.

Source: centrica.com

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