A new opinion poll of 2,000 adults reveals more than two thirds of the public support renewable energy schemes where projects are undertaken at a community level and local people receive financial benefit. The support even extends to wind and solar farms close to people's homes.
Massive support for community renewable energy Oliver Tickell | 6th September 2016 News Energy Renewables Society Green Economy westmill-cut.jpg A new opinion poll of 2,000 adults reveals more than …
Are you suffering from cognitive dissonance? You should be, writes Oliver Tickell. After the most ferocious attack a UK government has ever mounted on the environment, David Cameron just claimed that his is the 'greenest government ever', as Amber Rudd proclaims her commitment to climate action. What's going on?
Buy Conservative! No other party washes greener Oliver Tickell | 24th July 2015 Comment Climate Change Energy Renewables Nuclear Politics cameron-green-tie-cut.jpg Are you suffering from cognitive …
The 'Autumn Statement' delivered with such aplomb by the Chancellor is yet another attack on the UK's sustainable future, write David Lowry & Oliver Tickell - cutting energy efficiency funds just as tens of thousands are set to die of cold this winter, betting £250m on pointless nuclear research, and raiding the renewables budget to fund subsidies to nuclear power and fossil fuels.
Osborne's systematic devastation of the UK's sustainable future David Lowry Oliver Tickell | 26th November 2015 News Politics Energy Climate Change Fossil Fuels Renewables Finance UK osborne-cut.jpg …
This week George Osborne took the entire energy policy brief out of the department for energy and climate change, and handed it to the new National Infrastructure Commission. It could mean a swift end to the Hinkley C nuclear plant and a new wave of renewables - but don't count on it. NIC chairman Lord Adonis is no green dreamer. But at least he takes energy seriously.
UK's energy revolution - DECC's role usurped by new Infrastructure Commission Oliver Tickell | 7th October 2015 News Politics UK Energy Nuclear Renewables adonis-cut.jpg This week George Osborne took …
The Hinkley deal is a disastrous one for the UK, its taxpayers and energy users, writes Oliver Tickell. We will be locked into a punitively high electricity price, index-linked, from 2025 until 2060, and the cumulative cost of this one nuclear power station will be well in excess of £100 billion, or around £1 billion per year in today's money.
With nuclear power: truth is the first casualty Oliver Tickell | 21st October 2013 News Nuclear UK Renewables Energy Finance Politics Oceans 1609.jpg The Hinkley deal is a disastrous one for the UK, …
The UK government's policy to pay for more for nuclear power than for power from solar PV is in direct contradiction of EU rules on state aid.
Nuclear power gets twice the price of solar! Oliver Tickell | 28th October 2013 News Nuclear Energy Power Solar Renewables The UK government's policy to pay for more for nuclear power than for power …
The UK government is to cut support for domestic rooftop solar to 13% of current levels, with similar cuts for bigger systems, and end all support for small scale renewables by 2019. The likely result, and surely the intention, is to kill off the UK's solar industry altogether.
Government kills off UK solar industry Oliver Tickell | 27th August 2015 News Energy Renewables Solar Wind Hydro UK Politics solar-roof-cut.jpg The UK government is to cut support for domestic …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… have done for clean energy generation, energy conservation and energy efficiency, and what …
Britain's new Environment Secretary is young (38), female, blonde, believes in climate change, and has floated imaginative policies to deal with it from a carbon tax to 'personal carbon allowances'. As for badgers ... her silence on the topic promises well.
Britain's new Environment Secretary is a breath of fresh air Oliver Tickell | 15th July 2014 News UK Badgers Politics Renewables Solar Wind Biofuels liz-truss-swaffham-fork-cut.jpg Britain's new …
A letter from Energy Secretary Amber Rudd leaked to The Ecologist shows that she misled Parliament by promising the UK was 'on course' to deliver on its renewable energy targets - when in fact there is a delivery shortfall in 2020 of almost 25%. Her plan to fill the gap relies on more biofuels, buying in green power and 'credits' from abroad - everything but wind and solar.
Leaked letter: Rudd admits 25% green energy undershoot, misled Parliament Oliver Tickell | 9th November 2015 News Energy Renewables Politics Finance EU UK Law rudd-2-cut.jpg A letter from Energy …
A new study shows that the cost of 'integrating' the variable power output of large scale solar PV is surprisingly affordable, writes Oliver Tickell, at just a few pence per unit. Costs will fall further as more wind power, batteries and ever-cheaper solar drive the transition to a 100% renewable power system.
Cheap as chips! 'Negligible' cost of integrating big solar into UK grid Oliver Tickell | 4th October 2016 News Energy Renewables Solar Nuclear Economics solar-bham-cut.jpg A new study shows that the …
After ten massive renewable energy cuts that are leaving the UK falling well short of EU renewable energy targets, an eleventh! The axe is now falling on solar heating, writes Oliver Tickell - even though it's meant to be at the core of the government's renewable energy strategy.
Would you believe it? Yet another UK solar energy cut! Oliver Tickell | 7th March 2016 News Energy Finance Renewables UK Politics Solar EU solar-tubes-cut.jpg After ten massive renewable energy cuts …
Perplexed by today's sharp cuts in solar power and other attacks on renewable energy in the UK? Don't be, writes Oliver Tickell. Really, it all makes perfect sense. You just have to understand their real purpose: to keep your energy bills high, along with power company profits. And never mind the 'green crap'!
Renewable energy sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit Oliver Tickell | 22nd July 2015 Comment Energy Renewables Solar Wind Climate Change Politics Corporations westmill-cut.jpg Perplexed by …