The UK will soon complete a record year for solar installations, almost doubling the nation's solar capacity. But drastic and overtly discriminatory changes to support for renewables may see solar installations collapse to 1% of current levels.
… After UK's record solar year, government tries to kill the … Tickell | 3rd March 2015 News Renewables Solar Politics UK Economics Corporations fsp_castle_donington_solar-cut2.jpg The UK will soon complete a …
As renewables grow in scale, and fall in price, the threat to electric utilities becomes ever more clear, writes Tyler Hamilton. The last thing they needed was Barclays downgrading their corporate bonds ...
… Barclays: solar power threatens US utilities Tyler … June 2014 News Energy Renewables Corporations solar-us-cut.jpg As renewables grow in scale, … of declining cost trends in distributed solar PV power generation and …
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'!
… | 22nd July 2015 Comment Energy Renewables Solar Wind Climate Change Politics … Perplexed by today's sharp cuts in solar power and other attacks on renewable … this year is capped at £3.3bn. This includes solar and other technologies such as landfill …
French energy giant EDF will today give the formal go-ahead for the Hinkley C nuclear power station in Somerset, writes Chris Goodall. But that's no reason for the UK to sign up to a disastrous deal that will cost us over £1 billion per year for 35 years - money that should be used to support the green technologies of the future.
… them. Instead it is driving forward with solar and wind. A few days after the French … Nuclear gets ever more expensive as wind and solar costs plummet In fact, the NAO figures … power around the world and also notes that solar and wind require lower subsidies. One …
Boeing has just been granted a patent on a design for aircraft powered by nuclear fusion, writes Karl Grossman. What a great idea! Apart from the irradiation of plane and passengers with neutrons and gamma rays, the dangers of radioactive contamination ... and the fact that clean, green solar powered flight is taking off.
… ... and the fact that clean, green solar powered flight is taking off. Consider … biggest airplane manufacturer comes as solar power and green fuels are being shown to … on earth. Last week an airplane using only solar power, Solar Impulse 2, landed in Hawaii …
Three very different sustainable energy projects from India are among the finalists in this year's Ashden Awards, writes Chhavi Sharma - all of them inspiring and showing this vast country the way to a clean, secure, affordable energy future for all.
… Comment India Energy Renewables Corporations Solar family-solar-water-pump-cut.jpg Three very different … to harness India's enormous hydro, wind and solar resources, and develop biogas plants, in …
Launched at Davos this week, a WEF report on electricity generation predicts that solar power will cost twice as much in 2030, as the lowest cost sources today, writes Chris Goodall. It's sources? WEF isn't telling. But if 'facts' like these are driving the decisions of big energy CEOs, heaven help their companies in years to come.
… on electricity generation predicts that solar power will cost twice as much in 2030, … from a very outdated view of the economics of solar power. Take a look at the chart (right) … line at the top, starting off the scale, is solar PV. A megawatt hour is said to cost well …
Hopes of strengthening Britain’s energy security are often pinned on the fossil fuel industry says Vicente López-Ibor Mayor, as exemplified by the hysteria over the claimed 'discovery' of 100 billion barrels of oil beneath Gatwick airport. But the real long-term solution lies with abundant and ever cheaper decentralised renewables.
… 2015 News Energy Fossil Fuels Oil Renewables Solar Corporations solar-rainbow-cut.jpg Hopes of strengthening … in electricity storage harnessed from solar and wind alongside the right regulatory …
Over £1 billion could be paid out by frackers to appease local communities in the UK. Yet Rebecca Cooke finds that wind and solar offers local people a better return ...
… Comment Fossil Fuels Renewables Fracking UK solar-farm-lostwithiel.png Over £1 billion … the UK. Yet Rebecca Cooke finds that wind and solar offers local people a better return ... … benefits. By contrast Good Energy, the solar farm developer and energy supplier, …
Britain has a huge role in effecting the global energy transition to renewables, new shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy told the Labour Party Conference. But that will mean a complete reversal of Tory policies to attack wind and solar, lock us into polluting fossil fuels and overpriced nuclear power, and maintain 'big six' profits at consumers' expense.
… UK Climate Change COP21 Corporations westmill-solar-cut.jpg Britain has a huge role in … reversal of Tory policies to attack wind and solar, lock us into polluting fossil fuels and … is pioneering clean tech innovation using solar energy to connect millions of people to …
The UK government is punishing renewable energy for its success in generating 25% of the country's electricity, writes Stuart Parkinson. But there's no austerity when it comes to the bloated military-nuclear industrial sector, no matter how egregious its failures or extreme its cost overruns. Our future prosperity is being sacrificed - and its costing taxpayers billions.
… Wind turbines and solar panels into nuclear weapons: the UK's … announcing cuts to financial support for solar panels, wind turbines and other green … for small-scale renewables - especially solar - by up to 87% . The reduction in help …
The Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe may have scared most of the world off nuclear power, write Jan Haverkamp & Iryna Holovko. But mysteriously, not Ukraine, where the reactor meltdown actually took place. Thirty years on more than half of Ukraine's electricity is still nuclear, while the power sector is dominated by powerful oligarchs. So what are the chances of a post-nuclear Ukraine?
… Comment Ukraine Nuclear Energy Renewables Solar Russia Belarus Corporations … its entire energy demand in 2050 with wind, solar and water and a 32% decrease in primary … driven by oligarchs. For example, Activ Solar, which is owned by Andriy and Serhiy …
The oil industry and oil producers have a long history of market manipulation, writes Karl Grossman, and we see it going on right now with the low oil price that's squeezing fracking and getting America back onto gas-guzzling SUV's. But longer term, solar power is going to win out, and even Saudi Arabia knows it. Its game? To make out big, while the going's good.
… onto gas-guzzling SUV's. But longer term, solar power is going to win out, and even … vice president of communications for the Solar Energy Industries Association in … the price of oil and the development of solar projects nationwide, which remains quite …
What's the biggest threat to your life savings you've never heard of? Rebecca O'Connor shows how the world's exposure to unburnable carbon assets, and competition from clean energy technologies, could hammer your savings, pensions and investments.
… competition. The five-year growth rate for solar PV is 50% globally, with uptake boosted … market being flooded with zero marginal cost solar energy, which can now meet a huge chunk … need to be switched on at times of high solar output. If solar continues to grow at …
Trump has pledged to ditch the Paris Agreement, scrap Obama's clean power plan, get coal miners back to work, and 'make America great again' on the back of a huge expansion of fossil fuel production, writes Mark Barteau. But he will run into serious difficulties, not least states going their own renewable ways, cheap natural gas, and weak international demand for coal.
… President Trump: up Coal Creek without a (solar) panel? Mark Barteau University of … has sent a few mixed messages here as well. Solar seems to be fine, but is not cost …
When fracking came to Balcombe in West Sussex in 2013, it divided village opinion, writes Joe Nixon. But the community is now united in its commitment to locally owned renewable energy, with solar projects on schools and farm buildings, and plans just in for a new 5MW solar farm.
… to locally owned renewable energy, with solar projects on schools and farm buildings, and plans just in for a new 5MW solar farm. In the summer of 2013, Balcombe - … to anyone interested in starting a community solar project. The meeting was held at the …
Just imagine: gas for your cooking and heating made by composting home-grown British grass, writes Almuth Ernsting. What's not to like? Well, it would need almost all the UK's grassland to match our gas demand, leaving cows and sheep to starve or forcing them into sheds to eat foreign-grown feeds. And methane leakage could easily wipe out any climate benefit.
… other source of energy, including wind and solar power. We therefore asked how much land … for the home energy efficiency measures and solar roofs. The only driver behind falling … of photosynthesis: no plant converts as much solar radiation to chemical energy as sugar …
As the governing conservative party lurches ever further to the right, writes Kyla Mandel, it feels like UKIP has already won the election - six months before it's even happened. Tory ministers are already executing UKIP policies, with their ignorant but implacable hatred of renewable energy in all its forms.
… Common Agricultural Policy aimed at thwarting solar farm developments as she "does not want … of English farmland is wasted and blighted by solar farms" . Shortly after, however, it was … Tory at DECC under Davey and in charge of solar, climate science and innovation, has …
Fed up with being gouged by profit-driven corporations, let down by state neglect and under-investment, urban communities across the US are taking control of local services like public transport, energy, water, internet and telecoms, writes Max Holleran - bringing better service, lower prices and clean energy.
… USA Corporations Politics Cities Energy Water Solar we-love-local-power-cut.jpg Fed up with … In contrast to Europe, public investment for solar and wind energy is abysmal. The US … businesses. Social ownership brings solar to Boulder But as grassroots coalitions …
With a million families struggling to stay warm this winter, energy bills will be a hot election issue, writes Doug Parr. But Government actions have repeatedly favoured the 'big six' energy incumbents at the expense of consumers, competition, low-cost renewables and energy efficiency, locking us into high bills for years to come.
… than onshore wind, and probably ground-based solar well before it gets built. If it ever … old way of doing things. 6. Blocking wind and solar: The cheapest forms of low carbon power will soon be onshore wind and solar. Senior members of the Government are …
The latest IPCC report urges a dash for gas to allow us to reduce the burning of coal, including shale gas from fracking. But as Alex Kirby reports, their calculations appear to be based on an arithmetical flaw.
… need for more renewable energy - including solar, wind and hydropower - it says emissions … program. He believes that wind, water and solar power can be scaled up cost-effectively …
The ultimate goal of putting all fossil fuels behind us is an uphill battle and one that we may not be able to reach.
… a way that nuclear and coal plants cannot. As solar and wind production ebb and flow, … investment in renewable energies like solar and wind is a little disingenuous. … Water department made the decision to build a solar farm with battery storage instead of a …
Apple is moving to 100% renewable energy, worldwide, writes Robert Hunziker. But even better is CEO Tim Cook's fierce put-down to fossil-fuelled, climate skeptic shareholders: 'if you don't like it, sell!' Suddenly the politics of climate change in the US shifted ...
… now powered by renewable energy sources like solar. Cook Tweets: "We want to leave the … mix for its data centers. A 20-megawatt solar farm and biogas fuel cells power the … to renewable energy sources, like wind and solar. As a result, American taxpayers will …
Europe's new targets for carbon emissions and renewable energy are severely retrograde and fly in the face of both science and economics. They will endanger climate and retard the renewable energy revolution.
… impetus for expanding renewables in the UK." Solar future? Leonie Greene of the Solar Trade Association is also concerned … if it's to have any meaningful effect. "Solar is likely to need no public support in …