Scottish Water has completed a new £482,000 solar scheme at Overton water treatment works - the scheme has seen 480 solar panels installed on top of the water tank at the works..

Italian green utilities group, Gruppo CAP has become the fourth organisation to join the groundbreaking international Net Zero Partnership – the Partnership was formed in 2022 by the UK’s Severn Trent, Australia’s Melbourne Water and Denmark’s Aarhus Vand.

Almost a third of the energy needed to power a waste water treatment works (WWTW) serving thousands of people in and around Alloa is now being provided by a £1.3 million solar scheme at the site.

A team of over 60 leading climate scientists are warning that the central estimate of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C is 130 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and will be exhausted in a little more than three years at current levels of emissions.

In an industry first, Severn Trent has been recognised by global climate change consultancy, the Carbon Trust for its work to reduce its carbon impact.

New research shows that the damaging fires during the UK’s record-breaking 2022 heatwave were made at least six times more likely due to human-caused climate change.

The National Infrastructure Commission and the Institution of Civil Engineers have both welcomed the Climate Change Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget report published today.