Scheme for hiring EVs launched

It’s been introduced in Oxfordshire to incentivise the use of electric cars and stop the need for people to own individual cars

Samsung installing 150 heat pumps in Oxford

It has received £3.2m in government funding

EDF Renewables building 50MW battery site

The site will reportedly be able to power 100,000 homes with clean energy for two hours

Oxfordshire County Council commits to net zero by 2050

New plans should see its own corporate emissions halved by 2024

Bank of America and Oxford Uni team up for climate research

The research will focus on developing technology for greenhouse gas removal

Oxford Mayor travels to French climate conference by plane

This is following a social media campaign in November asking the public to travel by train, rather than plane

Pivot Power announces two new EV battery sites

These sites will provide storage of 50MW lithium-ion batteries

Oxford charges ahead with massive electric bus plan

As many as 159 electric buses could soon hit Oxford’s streets

Fresh £40m boost for net zero cities, climate change, biodiversity research

Scientists at the universities of Cambridge, Exeter, Glasgow and Oxford will work towards developing solutions to key challenges facing the UK

UK fusion technology breaks ‘landmark record’

Researchers produced 59 megajoules of sustained fusion energy, more than double the previous record in 1997