Is It Possible to Electrify the Broads? This is a question that is crucial to one of our current innovation platforms, The Electrification of the Broads. On 24th April 2020 the working group for this innovation platform held its first meeting. The point of the project is to look at the current state of electrification of The Broads and work with The Broads Authority to help improve this. The Broads Authority currently has a decarbonisation plan in place to reduce the emissions of the region to carbon neutral status by 2030, and net carbon zero by 2040. This equates to the reduction of 131,000 ..read more

Graphene as the Next Super Material I first learnt about graphene at a meeting with several of our Cleantech East businesses. It was mentioned in passing as a potential solution that one business was exploring to reduce weight in an aircraft it was designing. This interested everyone in the room immediately and we got quickly distracted into what graphene is and what it can do! After this meeting it became a mild obsession of mine as I tried to figure what it is, where it comes from, what we can use it for etc. The Properties of Graphene There is a lot of rightful scepticism around graphene as ..read more

Graphene as the Next Super Material I first learnt about graphene at a meeting with several of our Cleantech East businesses. It was mentioned in passing as a potential solution that one business was exploring to reduce weight in an aircraft it was designing. This interested everyone in the room immediately and we got quickly distracted into what graphene is and what it can do! After this meeting it became a mild obsession of mine as I tried to figure what it is, where it comes from, what we can use it for etc. The Properties of Gra ..read more

Like many other sports the earlier you get into the sport the, the bigger your advantage is as you will be spotted by teams and sponsors.  1.Go Karting Rent a kart and try it out a few times to see if its for you and if you actually enjoy it-while racing sounds fun its not always for everybody If you really enjoy it, pursue it and get your own proper kart and start taking it seriously-if you like karting on small tracks mov ..read more

Who are spark and what do they do? Spark Tech are a company which aim to improve the trust between humans and electric vehicles. This is because there can be erratic display and range fluctuations which happen during test drives therefore holding back EV sales. It is predicted that by 2025 30% of car sales are going to be EV’s so spark tech are improving the technology inside of them. They are creating AI technology which is up to 10 times more accurate than manufacturer solutions. The technology can also add up to 20% more jou ..read more

This article is an excerpt from a full article due to be released in the Hethel Innovation E-Mag in the coming months. Keep in touch to read the full thing! TL;DR Norwich Community Solar Chair Nigel Hargreaves discusses whether the lack of institutional inertia is the barrier to community energy projects in East Anglia. Highlighting that the western and southern areas of England have had success with community energy. There is plenty of solar and wind resource in East Anglia, but no community uptak ..read more

This article is an excerpt from a full article due to be released in the Hethel Innovation E-Mag in the coming months. Keep in touch to read the full thing! TL;DR Norwich Community Solar Chair Nigel Hargreaves discusses whether the lack of institutional inertia is the barrier to community energy projects in East Anglia. Highlighting that the western and southern areas of England have had success with community energy. There is plenty of solar and wind resource in East Anglia, but no community uptak ..read more

Above: Framingham Earl’s winning team who created their very own alternative to plastic – Milk Plastic! A team of Year 9’s from Springwood Highschool and a team of Year 7’s from Framingham Earl High were this year’s winners of Cleantech East’s annual Cleantech Challenge, and were awarded their prizes – brand new state-of-the-art 3D Printers – at Hethel Engineering Centre on 3rd May 2019. The competition was open to schools across Norfolk and Suffolk and team ..read more

A team of Year 9’s from Springwood Highschool and a team of Year 7’s from Framingham Earl High were this year’s winners of Cleantech East’s annual Cleantech Challenge, and were awarded their prizes – brand new state-of-the-art 3D Printers – at Hethel Engineering Centre on 3rd May 2019. The competition was open to schools across Norfolk and Suffolk and teams in both Key stage 3 and 4 were provided with a choice of 5 environmental challenges faced by the region and tasked wi ..read more

The oil and gas leader, Shell have partnered with Anesco, a UK renewables firm, to engage in a new battery storage project at the Becton gas terminal in Norfolk launching Summer 2019. Anesco, based in Reading in the South of England, was the first UK company to install commercial-scale batteries charged by solar power back in 2016. They also own and operate the UK’s first subsidy-free solar farm in Bedfordshire. Anesco has committed to bringing 185MW of energ ..read more