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ABB has launched a free energy calculator application (App) for the Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod. The App allows end-users to calculate the energy savings they can achieve by installing variable speed drives to control motors.

A Geotech field demo of its portable laser methane leak detector at an AD biogas plant was an immediate success.

When the engineers involved in this major Ajman STW contract were closing down the final few snagging items, REID Lifting Ltd were contacted to explore potential solutions for lifting the Blower motors, which were already installed in Acoustic Enclosures at the Ajman STW site in UAE.

A row has broken out in Canada over the water draining impact of a renewed interest in drilling for shale gas.

Newcastle, for the second year running, has been named as Britain's greenest city by Forum for the Future.

Businesses will be taking in the news that the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme cash-back incentive has been removed in the government's spending cuts.

The UK is to get its first purpose-built solar farm in Truro, Cornwall.

Hamburg will be the European Commission's European Green Capital for 2011. The award was announced at the first European Green Capital Conference, currently taking place in Stockholm.

The congestion charging for the Western Extension zone is to be scrapped after a public consultation run by Transport for London.

The government has issued a Gas Storage Licence for a major new gas storage facility in the North Sea at the Deborah field, a depleted off-shore field near the Bacton Terminal.