Recommended Reading: Fascinating article on the Guardian website as Futurist Ray Kurzweil says “we have plenty of time” to replace fossil fuels with renewables
http://bit.ly/gGOaRs
This week it appears that almost everyone involved in the renewable industry is becoming mobilised in one way or the other over the Feed-In Tariffs (FiT’s) review or the delayed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) announcement.
One the one hand, businesses, manufacturers and community groups have angrily accused the Government of breaching an earlier promise to only [...]
In an article published in the Western Daily Press, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne has explained that the review of Feed-IN Tariffs is vital for maintaining sustainable growth in the solar power business. While the FiT’s are encouraging investment in renewable energy, he explained, it was vital to protect [...]
The book by best-selling author Craig Shields, is based on interviews with 25 of the world’s top researchers, authors, analysts and industry leaders and shot to the top of Amazon’s best sellers list in the energy category.
The book explores “tough realities” that exist in moving to clearner energy, the economic implications, and the political issues [...]
The Department for Energy and Climate and Change (DECC) has granted CleanEnergyCashBack’s energy partner, E.ON,permission to build a new 230MW offshore wind farm.
The wind farm, to be located 8km off the Holderness Coast in the East Riding of Yorkshire, will have the capacity to provide up to 150,000 homes with clean, renewable energy from up [...]
The European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) has urged the Government to think very carefully during it’s review of Feed-In Tariffs announced last week, warning that the uncertainty created has already risked some major projects and may do lasting harm to the industry in the long run.
“In times of economic crisis, it is essential to encourage [...]
President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget proposals this week included a recommendation to slash subsidies for fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal to fund $8billion worth of investment in clean energy research and deployment to boost the green economy.
“Whomever leads in the global, clean energy economy will also take the lead in creating high-paying, [...]
The government’s leading low-carbon agency has had its funding cut by 40%, causing the cancellation of grants to various projects.
The Carbon Trust, whose mission will receive £50m from the government in 2011-12.
“Public funding still remains necessary and important to achieving our mission, especially in catalysing low-carbon innovation to overcome market failures and in supporting smaller [...]
We loved this video about new solar tower technology being deployed in Spain.
http://bit.ly/h6ksKh
The European Union’s energy commissioner Guenther Oettinger said on Thursday that High oil prices are here to stay, adding that the lower prices of the past three years had been the result of the financial crisis and recession, and that companies should plan for higher prices.
“The oil price will not go back to $60 [a [...]
