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Renewable Electricity Reaches 10%, Sky Doesn't Fall
Wind, hydro and other renewables supplied 50% more electricity than in the same period last year, and now represent almost 10% of all electricity generated.But there have been howls of protest from energy intensive industries, echoed by Goerge...
Why Don't More Businesses Save Money Through Energy Management?
Richard Rugg, the Director of Carbon Trust Programmes, really can't understand why more organisations are not taking advantage of the free advice available from the Trust. Because at relatively low cost a wide range of industrial, commercial and...
The Future of Offshore Wind: Floating Turbines and Innovative Suspension
As the UK announces new proposals for maintaining offshore windfarms in rough seas that could save up to £3bn, Japan is planning a floating windfarm off the coast of Fukushima to help replace its lost nuclear power generation.The Carbon Trust has...
Proposed Changes to Climate Change Agreements Could Increase Carbon Emissions
Firms which are eligible for Climate Change Agreements (CCAs) should find it easier to comply and some will save money under new Government proposals. However, the Government has not presented any estimates of the impact it will have on emissions....
Political Will Prevents the Dawning of the Long-Predicted Solar Age
Here is an intriguing question for anyone interested in tackling climate change: who said this, and when? "Eventually industry will no longer find in Europe the resources to satisfy its prodigious expansion... Coal will undoubtedly be used up. What...
All Buildings Should Display Energy Certificates
Forcing all commercial buildings to display data on their energy performance would bring huge economic as well as environmental savings. The Government's Energy Bill is in its second Report Stage, prior to its Third and last Reading. Its...
Trump to Tea Party: I'll Fight Wind Energy
A climate-sceptic tycoon who has told a Tea Party rally he might stand for President has vowed to oppose a key part of UK plans to become a world leader in offshore wind power. Last week, utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and...
The UK Must End Conflict Over Financing The Low Carbon Revolution
The Uk Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has just released figures showing that renewable sources generated just 6.8% of UK electricity in 2010, an increase of only 0.3% on the previous year.The amount of installed electrical generating...
The Large-Scale Solar Gold Rush Draws To An End
The installed capacity of photovoltaic solar power in the UK doubled in the three months to June in the rush to complete projects before the reduction in Feed-on Tariffs by Monday August 1.The tariff will drop from 29.3p per kWh to 8.5p per kWh on...
World's First Complete Electric Vehicle Charging Network Launched
Ecotricity and Welcome Break have today launched the first of a national network of free electric car charging points situated at motorway services and powered by the renewable electricity company's wind turbines.Dubbed the Electric Highway, the...
Support the Spreading of Intelligence - Key to the Low Carbon Revolution
The Intelligent Energy Europe programme of the European Union is due to be abolished in the coming budget round. But its valuable work must somehow be allowed to continue.Buried away on page 18 of a dry-seeming document published by the European...
Did Huhne Really Compare Climate Change to Hitler?
DECC minister Chris Huhne has compared world leaders who obstruct a global deal to tackle climate change to politicians who tried to appease Adolf Hitler before World War Two.Does this make climate change a threat akin to the Nazis, who plunged the...
