Climate Change and Covid 19 – Build Back Better

The Covid-19 lockdown has cut climate change emissions by 17%, a level not seen since 2006. The CO₂ numbers during the lockdown show that it’s possible to reduce emissions, it’s just not the way that we want to do it. I’m sure you will have noticed how pleasant it has been with fewer cars on the […]

Reduce warehouse heating and cooling costs

What is a Destratification (HVLS) fan Destratification fans are great air movement devices for large indoor spaces. Solving the problem of rising heat is essential to providing energy savings. Suspended from the ceiling of a commercial or industrial building.  Our fans achieve energy savings and provide a comfortable environment for occupants in the building. Each […]

Energy Storage for Renewable Energy

Energy storage capacity is on the increase in the UK. With the announcement of a major new deal to deliver two 50MW batteries in large storage facilities in Oxford and Kent by the end of 2020. This will deliver 100MW of storage, enough to power over 36,000 homes. 33% of the UK’s electricity currently comes […]

World first for Stockport renewable energy company KAST

Sustainable racing? The Isle of Man TT and the sustainability aren’t words you would normally put in the same sentence, fire breathing 230 bhp motorbikes ridden by the world’s best riders down country roads at over 200mph on a small Island in the Irish sea: not exactly the image of energy sustainability and carbon reduction. […]

Energy Prices – Is this a Netflix moment?

We are at a pivotal moment in time in the UK, the likes have never been seen before. Nuclear power is stalling, energy provided by fossil fuels are in rapid decline, energy imported from Europe is on the increase, Ofgem have significantly increased price caps, wholesale energy costs have risen by 10%  in 2019 already […]

KAST Energy and Duffy Motorsport – TT Zero and MotoE Championship

KAST Energy and Duffy Motorsport join forces for TT and MotoE championship KAST Energy and Duffy Motorsport have agreed an initiative to bring renewable energy powered racing to the racing paddocks of the UK and Europe. The collaboration will show the art of the possible with Duffy Motorsport and KAST Energy race entries being powered […]

Energy Prices – What will happen after Brexit?

We’ve written a short article around UK energy pricing. Why costs have shot up over the last few years and how susceptible to further price rises they’ll be after Brexit.   Energy Prices blog November 2018   [gravityform id=”1″ title=”true” description=”true”]

UK renewable energy capacity surpasses fossil fuels for first time

Renewable capacity has tripled in past five years, even faster growth than the ‘dash for gas’ of the 1990s. The capacity of renewable energy has overtaken that of fossil fuels in the UK for the first time, in a milestone that experts said would have been unthinkable a few years ago. In the past five […]

Lithium vs Vanadium Energy Storage

Energy storage is poised to transform the electricity industry. In the U.S. alone, energy storage will grow 6x, from 120 megawatts to over 720 megawatts by 2020. Globally, it will bring power for the first time to over a billion people by letting them tap into micro-grids. Lithium and vanadium have both been offered up […]

An energy transformation unseen since the industrial revolution

The majority of the British public would like to install solar panels and home energy storage schemes if greater government assistance was available, a new survey has revealed. In total 62 per cent said they would like to fit solar panels and 60 per cent would install an energy storage device. An even greater proportion […]