Since Climate Change Minister Greg Barker announced that DECC is proposing a 70% cut in feed-in tariffs for commercial solar farms from August this year, the decision has been met with concern and ctiricism from many quarters.
Leading lights from within the Solar industry believe it could be the death-knell for installations of over 50MW. Ken [...]
OFGEM has told the UK’s major energy providers to simplify the way they charge and bill for domestic energy.
The sheer number of tariffs offered – rising from 180 to over 300 hundred since 2008 – means that householders are being “bamboozled” by the complexity of the products on offer, leading to a lack of transparency [...]
Following the terrible events Japan, there is now an ongoing crisis with reports of explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and the Japanese Government issuing warnings that the current radiation levels near the plant are “harmful to human health.”
The human tragedy is inconceivable, and the whole episode has once more polarised seemingly everyone on [...]
The world’s first financial incentive of its kind to revolutionise the way heat is generated and used in buildings has been launched by Energy Secretary Chris Huhne.
The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) will support emerging technologies and businesses in the UK, strengthening security of supply by reducing dependence on fossil fuel heating and emissions.
Currently around half [...]
The Government has announced that the Clean Energy Cashback Feed-In tariffs will increase by 4.8% from 1 April 2011.
The increase is in line with the 2010 Retail Price Index and covers the entire range of renewable technologies.
For example, consumers with a Solar PhotoVoltaic installation of 4kW or less, will see an increase of 2p per [...]
An article in Sunday’s Times expects an announcement this week for the long-awaited details for the Renewable Heat Incentive.
The Times states that £4.5billion will be made available to both homeowners and businesses who will be able to claim money on heat energy they have generated through various renewable energy technologies, such as wood-chip boilers, solar [...]
DECC have launched a new web-based simulation designed to let give the public the chance to decide on our future energy mix.
The my2050 application asks you to decide where our future energy generation should come from, how we might reach an 80% reduction in emissions and also ask what changes to the overall energy demand [...]
