The UK has overtaken Denmark to become the world's ‘number one' for wind farms built offshore, with 597MW fully constructed says Mike O'Brien, minister of state at the new Department of Energy and Climate Change. This has been made possible after building

Confidence among manufacturers has seen its sharpest fall for almost three decades during the last three months of "exceptional economic turbulence," the CBI has warned. In a report highlighting the present difficulties – the UK manufacturing industry output falling to its lowest

NICEIC has produced a series of short downloadable films exploding the myths surrounding registration.  Available to view at www.niceic.com the films are hosted by the organisation's senior marketing and events engineer Tony Cable and feature a brief introduction to NICEIC and the

Tributes have been paid to Dr George Gainsborough, former secretary of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), who passed away on Friday 3 October. Dr Gainsborough was born in the Shetland Isles and read Physics at King's College, London. He completed his

With 21 halls totalling 200,000 sq m, the NEC is the biggest exhibition centre in Britain. Until recently, providing power to the tens of thousands of stands built every year was a complicated and labour intensive process involving thousands of metres of

Recolight, a UK WEEE compliance scheme for lamps, has seen a significant rise in the number of individual ‘on demand' site collections it is making; now up to 30 collections per month and increasing. The company offers flexibility so one-off collections at

Energy and climate change secretary Ed Miliband has committed the UK to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80% on 1990 levels by 2050 as a major contribution to a global deal on climate change. In a wide-ranging Commons statement, his first since