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Supply Chain Intelligence: Why Finding Projects Isn’t the Biggest Challenge
Britain’s biggest transmission infrastructure investment is creating new opportunities across the supply chain. Discover why better intelligence, not more information, is becoming the key to making confident decisions.
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The Nuclear Option
Nuclear power is back in the news again this week, but not for the right reasons. Britain has been producing (mostly-)safe low-carbon nuclear power into the grid continuously since the commercial operation of Calder Hall at Windscale in 1959 (over 60 years ago), and...
The Power of the Wind
Power is also proportional to the swept area of the turbine blades - so effectively proportional to the square of the blade radius. This helps to explain why 'bigger is better' in terms of catching the power of the wind, and 'bigger' also means 'taller' - so that more...
Innovation & Investment in Energy Summit 2022
On Thursday 17th Feb we had the fantastic opportunity to talk at the final Energy Entrepreneurs Showcase in the Frontier Energy Network Innovation & Investment in Energy Summit 2022. We were grateful for the chance in this forum to share our vision of enabling...
The Tide is Turning in Holyhead – Tidal Energy Project
Some of us read with excitement yesterday the news that - after almost 10 years of patient pre-development buildup - Menter Môn received government consent to develop the Morlais tidal energy project. Over time this has the potential to generate up to 240MW of...
Our Technology Stack
As a disclaimer, in this article, I will be talking about many technologies that could be unfamiliar to a reader with no relevant background. I have tried to make the explanation as short and comprehendible as possible, however, I may not have succeeded at some of...
Welcoming New Starters Emmanuel & Rafique!
Simon will unfortunately be leaving Olwg as a Director to pursue another full-time position, and we thank Simon for his contributions in helping to turn Olwg from a fledgling ‘idea’ to a Company with unique prototype products and a Plan designed to sustain + scale our...
Carbon Capture Options – By the Numbers
Carbon Capture The Options The UK produced around 326 million tons of CO2 in 2020, down from about 800 million tonnes in 1990 [1]. Cumulatively, the UK has produced approximately 80 billion tons of CO2 since 1750. Globally 1.58 trillion tons of CO2 have been emitted...
Energy Community Platform ‘Insyn’ Released
What is Insyn? Insyn is an unbiased community-based ‘one-stop-shop’ Platform for energy professionals and decision-makers. The emphasis is on making available a growing range of fit-for-purpose, accessible and interactive tools- and on growing a ‘community of...
Olwg Turns One
On 16th June 2020 in the midst of the first wave of the Covid pandemic, Olwg was born. Over the past twelve months they've been on a interesting and challenging journey. Since that first day twelve months ago much has changed. The company has grown, figuratively and...
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