Severn Wye’ s biochar plant in Warrington has been awarded GBP 600k‘ Redress’ funding to install and trial two highly efficient generators that operate using a heat-exchange process known as Organic Rankine Cycle( ORC). If successful, the plant could supply social homes and businesses with clean electricity at below market rates; a first in the UK and also the EU, where biochar manufacturing is more established. Because of the way it’ s produced – through a process called pyrolysis |
– the electricity would be carbon negative. Pyrolysis involves baking material at high temperatures in low-oxygen conditions. The ORC units are expected to be installed and commissioned by spring 2026, and the three-month trial will start soon after. Redress is funded by energy suppliers that may have breached Ofgem rules, and payments are distributed by the Energy Saving Trust to energyrelated projects in England, Scotland, and Wales. |
LG Electronics( LG) CEO William Cho is advancing the company’ s Global South growth strategy through a strategic partnership to provide cooling solutions for an AI data center under development in Oxagon, the industrial hub of Saudi Arabia’ s NEOM City project. Cho recently met with Abdulelah Abunayyan, Chairman of SHAKER Group, the manufacturer and sole distributor of LG Air Conditioners, following the 30th anniversary of the strategic partnership, and Rajit Nanda, CEO of DATAVOLT, a global data infrastructure provider. The parties signed a memorandum |
of understanding( MoU) under which LG will supply advanced thermal management solutions for next-generation data centers being developed by DATAVOLT. DATAVOLT, headquartered in Saudi Arabia with offices in the USA, Uzbekistan, India, and the UAE, develops hyperscale data centers that incorporate renewable energy and alternative fuels. Its flagship project in Oxagon is planned as one of the largest AI data centers in the region. DATAVOLT is also investing in hyperscale data centers in Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, and other parts of Asia. |