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Consumers Pay For Nuclear's £1bn Windfall
Consumers will end up footing the bill for the £1 billion windfall that nuclear power companies can expect to get from the government's support for this dangerous technology.The Carbon Price Floor system that has been proposed by the Treasury is...
Nuclear Industry Must Be Transparent on Uranium Mining, Carbon Output Before New Plants
The nuclear industry has to clean up its supply chain, be as ethical, accountable and transparent as possible, and come clean on its true carbon impact, if it is to earn our trust.The UK is considering supporting the building of a new generation of...
Marine Power Will Be Cost Competitive in 14 Years
The best marine energy sites could be cost-competitive with nuclear and onshore wind by 2025 with accelerated and targeted innovation, according to a new report from the Carbon Trust.The report is based on an evaluation of the Carbon Trust's £3.5...
Electricity Market Reform Unlikely To Stimulate Sufficient Investment
The Electricity Market Reform White Paper is scheduled to be published today, the most radical change to the industry since it was privatised 20 years ago, but business is worried that it still won't provide sufficient certainty to permit the...
Solar Industry Provoking Green Backlash?
"Cowboy" solar PV companies are undermining consumer confidence in the technology by mis-selling, and the industry is failing to police itself in a competent manner.The sting operation by consumer magazine (Which?) and evidence from the small scale...
Communities Key To Reducing Carbon From Buildings
If the Government is keen on reducing the carbon emissions from the domestic sector, it should ideally target efforts at the community level rather than individual households, according to a study of British Gas' Green Streets programme by the IPPR....
World Bank Attacked For Encouraging Climate Change
The UK must stop funding World Bank aid until the Bank stops financing unabated coal power stations in developing countries, says the Environment Audit Committee in a new report on the impact of UK overseas aid on environmental protection and...
Governments Must Work Harder to Avoid Global Catastrophe
Governments of developed countries must work harder to secure a climate pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, and avoid an approximately 3.2 degrees rise in average global temperatures this century.Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change...
Is Anaerobic Digestion The Ideal Sustainable Technology?
Between three and five terawatt-hours of energy could be supplied by anaerobic digestion by 2020, according to the Government's new Anaerobic Digestion Strategy and Action Plan.The Plan contains guidance on the cost and benefits of AD for...
Will The UK's Microgeneration Strategy Bankrupt Its Subsidy Structure?
The government's new strategy envisages the ideal cost of installing renewable microgeneration technologies to move to around £5-6,000 with a payback period of around five years so that millions of householders take it up. But it's worried that if...
The Feed In Tariffs Fiasco
With a stroke, DECC has undermined the competitiveness of the UK solar industry in the export market. Over 80% of respondents to the Government's review of Feed-in Tariffs opposed the deep cuts to the incentives with most calling for more modest...
The New Post-Carbon Business Model
The idea of providing a service of renewable energy - rather than a simple supply - and reaping a return on investment from selling any surplus generated to the grid, or by claiming the difference between the regular and premium rate, is emerging as...
