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Smarter Energy Challenge · from 21 September
Smarter investment
Join our full-day conference, see real case studies on site and take part in the Smarter Energy webinar series – all designed to help you build a smarter clean energy transition plan for your business. Avoid investment uncertainty and costly mistakes – draw on the knowledge of the programme’s experts, who together have decades of experience in the energy sector.
Techies Go Green is delighted to welcome First Citizen Finance as sustainable asset finance partner for the autumn Smarter Energy Challenge. Find out how access to practical asset finance can help businesses turn sustainability ambitions into investment – from solar PV and battery storage to electric vehicle fleets and energy-efficient technology. With specialist expertise, flexible finance solutions and a relationship-led approach, First Citizen Finance helps businesses take the next step towards greater energy efficiency and a more sustainable future.
Thought leadership · Mike Townsend
Think circular. Build better.
In the final article of his three-part series, Mike Townsend explains why reaching net zero takes more than incremental improvements. Find out how adopting circular economy principles can help construction companies lower costs, strengthen supply chains, open new revenue streams and build long-term resilience. The biggest gains will go to organisations that rethink traditional models, collaborate across the value chain and start transforming today.
Thought leadership series: rethinking sustainability
The sustainability bubble has deflated – recent political and regulatory changes in Brussels, London and Washington have slowed momentum and weakened key regulatory frameworks. But this pause gives businesses a chance to reset their approach and focus on long-term, commercially viable models.
We invited leading sustainability consultants Mike Townsend and John Barcroft, together with Michael O’Hara and Gerard Clutterbuck of Techies Go Green, to share their views on the future of sustainability from a business and economic perspective. In the videos, Mike Townsend, CEO of Earthshine Group, talks to Techies Go Green about each part of his three-part series.
Thought leadership
Is it time to rethink net zero? Part 2: Reimagining construction – for impact and commercial advantage
Last time we confronted the climate reality and the need to look beyond the noise of the culture wars. The crisis is real. The cost of inaction is devastating. Although smart money is still being invested, we are not cutting emissions deeply or quickly enough. Incremental change is not working. We need to rethink net zero strategies to deliver rapid transformation – in every business, economy and society.
Watch the interview with Mike Townsend on part 2 of his series and read the full article.
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Thought leadership
We need to move from “Dire Straits” to electrostates
Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has triggered a new rise in global energy prices. Businesses and households are struggling with rising costs and supply uncertainty. This latest crisis is not only squeezing margins – it exposes a deeper structural problem. The fossil-fuel-based global energy model on which economic growth has rested for decades is increasingly unfit for purpose. With each cycle of supply shock and recovery, the urgency grows for countries to move from being passive customers of petrostates to proactive, self-sufficient and climate-friendly electrostates.
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Thought leadership
Is it time to rethink net zero? Part 1: Beyond the noise of the culture wars!
We are in the middle of a climate crisis – a huge challenge for which we have limited time. Incremental change is not working; we need radical solutions that deliver transformative results if we are to keep a liveable planet and shared prosperity. Meanwhile, the culture wars pose a clear and present danger: they undermine an effective transition to a low-carbon economy and deepen climate breakdown.
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Thought leadership
From “doing” sustainability to being sustainable – a guide for business leaders
In 2025 the sustainability bubble burst, or at least deflated significantly. Regulatory and political changes in Brussels and Washington slowed momentum: the acceleration provided by the EU’s CSRD was sharply weakened, and the froth in the sustainability market was blown away by pushback from interest groups and a political shift to the right.
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This is a great introduction to help you start measuring your company’s carbon footprint and using the free OpenCO2net calculator, available free of charge to Techies Go Green members for 12 months.
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Direct air capture of CO₂ in a new light
Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology has passed the point where it can be dismissed as impractical or prohibitively expensive. But it is worth being clear about what DAC is not. It is not a licence to keep emitting. It is not a reason to slow the clean energy transition. And on its own it will not reverse the trajectory of atmospheric CO₂. In truth, no single technology will. DAC can, however, act as a key part of an integrated approach that combines decisive emission cuts with active carbon removal and treats captured CO₂ as a resource, not a problem.
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Knowledge hub
What did we learn from COP30?
Another COP has come to an end with very few decisions made. Sadly, for the first time in COP history the United States sent no representative, while China had the second-largest delegation – after host Brazil – with 789 delegates.
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Knowledge hub
Water: the gold we keep spilling
Water is one of the world’s most precious natural resources – so precious that without it humanity would not just struggle… it simply would not exist.
Read the article- The first step to net zero that most businesses miss – read
- A conversation with Paul Hawken: carbon, culture and the work of regeneration – read
- More educational articles
New in our Green Tech Focus video series
Industrial process heat accounts for almost a fifth of all global greenhouse gas emissions – as much as the US and India combined! It is a particularly hard source of emissions to cut, because it requires very high temperatures, usually achieved by burning fossil fuels.
In this episode of Green Tech Focus we talk to Re-Therm founder and CEO Paul Keane about their remarkably compact, modular “plug and play” solution designed to replace the fossil fuels currently used to produce industrial process heat. Paul explains that their solution is built inside a standard shipping container. This self-contained system heats its thermal mass to over 1,200 degrees Celsius using off-peak electricity and renewable power that would otherwise be curtailed. It connects easily to a standard process heat manifold and integrates with existing heat control systems with minimal changes. Paul adds that each storage module can take up as little space as a single parking bay, and modules can be connected in series to increase storage capacity – each adding 5 MWh.
Community and sustainability news
Community news
- First Citizen Finance joins the Techies Go Green Smarter Energy Challenge as sustainable asset finance partner – read
- How a global supply chain leader with 600 staff built its sustainability story from scratch – read
- From surplus food to green energy: a visit to Bia Energy – read
- FIT wins the Techies Go Green Sustainability Award at the Tech Excellence Awards – read
THE BUSINESS TIME’s role
Action Green is an expert magazine – in English. As a Techies Go Green partner and signatory, we bring this knowledge to the Polish business community in the UK: we choose the texts most important for Polish businesses and discuss them in Polish in THE BUSINESS TIME, always crediting the author and linking to the original.
We pay particular attention to topics that directly concern sectors where many Poles in the UK work: circular construction, energy prices, financing solar PV, battery storage and electric fleets.
We encourage Polish companies implementing interesting solutions to get in touch – we can pitch their story to the Action Green editors.
THE BUSINESS TIME · Techies Go Green signatory and partner
How we help Polish businesses in the UK
As a Techies Go Green signatory, we introduce Polish businesses operating in the UK to the programme. Network membership is free – we help you through the registration in English, set up the free tools and prepare your company so its climate action is visible and credible.
Website
We design and build your company website – including a “Sustainability” page where you can show customers and tender panels your emissions data, targets and progress.
Social media
We run your company profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X. We communicate your climate action accurately, based on data – without greenwashing.
Company registration or conversion
We help you set up an LTD company at Companies House or convert a sole trader business into a company – step by step, in Polish.
Accounting
We support your accounting: day-to-day bookkeeping, VAT, annual accounts – and keeping the energy, transport and purchasing data that ESG reports require in order.
Data protection – DPO before the ICO
We act as Data Protection Officer (DPO) and point of contact for the ICO. We prepare your privacy policy and record of processing activities in line with the UK GDPR.
Online training
We sign your team up for free Techies Go Green webinars and workshops and partner courses with member discounts. We go over the key material in Polish.
How to join with us
- Write to us – in Polish or English. Tell us briefly about your company and what you need.
- Free Techies Go Green membership – we will help you fill in the registration form in English.
- Free tools – the OpenCO2net carbon footprint calculator and the ENSO ESG platform for members.
- THE BUSINESS TIME support – website, social media, company formation, accounting, data protection and training.
Source: Techies Go Green, techiesgogreen.com/action-green-magazine . Polish translation: THE BUSINESS TIME, published with the partner’s permission. Photos: Techies Go Green. Commentary and description of services: THE BUSINESS TIME / ARGONAUTS MEDIA GROUP LIMITED.
