The government's decision to cut support for domestic solar by 64% reflects antiquated thinking, writes Doug Parr. Just as the rest of Europe is shifting to ever-cheaper renewable, low carbon, decentralised, participatory, employment generating energy systems, the UK is stuck in a the dirty past of nuclear and fossil fuels.
… Today's solar cut: government turns its back on the … 2015 Comment Energy Politics UK Renewables Solar Nuclear Fossil Fuels gla-solar-cut.jpg The government's decision to cut …
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..
… India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar Finance China solar-power-india-cut.jpg India's renewable … Describing the fall in the cost of power from solar as a " game changer " he told 2,000 …
The US's fossil fuel industry is scared at the growth of solar power, and its ever-declining market cost. So it's fighting back, reports Trip Van Noppen, doing its best to quash solar growth by imposing new costs and restrictions.
… Noppen | 3rd March 2014 Comment Renewables Solar Power USA Fossil Fuels solar-hawaai.png The US's fossil fuel industry is scared at the growth of solar power, and its ever-declining market …
Last week a massive 350 hectare open cast coal mine at Druridge Bay took an important step towards winning panning permission. This got Chris Goodall wondering: what if the land was turned into a solar farm instead? His surprise discovery: solar power on England's south coast already costs no more than coal - and it's only getting cheaper.
… Solar on the best UK sites is competitive with … Chris Goodall | 15th July 2016 Comment Energy Solar Fossil Fuels Coal UK Economics … wondering: what if the land was turned into a solar farm instead? His surprise discovery: …
Traveling in the US by boat and train visiting solar laboratories and environmental groups, Keith Barnham found many successful community initiatives in renewable electricity, and brings news of progress towards the ultimate renewable challenge: a solar fuel that could eventually replace gasoline in cars, trucks, buses, trains and aircraft.
… | 21st July 2016 Comment Energy Renewables Solar UK US Economics Transport Fossil Fuels Oil solar-leaves-cut.jpg Traveling in the US by boat and train visiting solar laboratories and environmental groups, …
New technologies are coming on stream that can turn sunlight and wind into liquid fuels for vehicles, homes or power plants, writes Chris Goodall. And by powering the process using 'free' renewable energy on sunny or windy days, the fuel will be as green as can be, and cost less than petroleum.
… Energy Technology Renewables Oil Fossil Fuels solar-cut.jpg New technologies are coming on … article demonstrates how surplus power from solar PV can be converted into liquid fuels. … Price of liquid fossil fuels versus solar isobutanol Will generating liquid fuels …
The Jenin Charitable Hospital is going 100% solar in order to combat the power cuts and shortages that afflict the Palestinian Territory - and in the process save a small fortune on energy bills.
… Gaza hospital 'goes solar' to combat power shortages Rami … | 7th June 2014 News Health Renewables Solar Fossil Fuels canadian-solar-australia-cut.jpg The Jenin Charitable …
Mexico's oil looks set to run out within a decade, writes Jeremy Leggett, and it can hardly rely on Trump's America to make up the difference. But Mexico enjoys abundant sunshine, and the cost of solar power generation is falling fast. Let Trump tie America's economy to debt-financed fossil fuels. Mexico's future prosperity will come from harnessing its inexhaustible solar riches.
… expiring oil and Trump's wall: the future is solar Jeremy Leggett | 11th May 2017 Comment … enjoys abundant sunshine, and the cost of solar power generation is falling fast. Let … will come from harnessing its inexhaustible solar riches. What do you do if you are …
The International Energy Agency's latest World Energy Outlook is calling for increased investment in new oil and gas, writes Oliver Tickell, while minimising the fast-growing and ever lower-cost contribution to world energy supply of renewables like wind and solar.
… Oil Gas Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Wind Solar Nuclear flaring-cut.jpg The … energy supply of renewables like wind and solar. The International Energy Agency is … falls in the renewable energy sector, of solar and wind power in particular, challenge …
Tesla Energy's new mains power battery has just transformed the energy market - giving a huge boost to small scale renewable energy and killing off both fossil fuelled and nuclear power in the process.
… | 1st May 2015 News Energy Renewables Wind Solar Fossil Fuels Coal Nuclear solar-roof-cut.jpg Tesla Energy's new mains … dear - no longer! Currently power users with solar panels or wind turbines get paid just a …
Can we really produce all our electricity from renewable sources? Yes, says David Elliott - and at lower cost than by using fossil fuels and nuclear power. But powerful forces are opposed to change ...
… Fossil Fuels Climate Change Nuclear Power ott-solar-panels.png Can we really produce all our … around the world. 'New' renewables - wind, solar, wave, tidal, geothermal The 'new' non-hydro renewables - wind and solar especially - are expanding even more …
The REN21 Renewables 2018 Global Status Report was published this week. Britain leads the world only in the amount it has cut investment in solar and wind energy. And state subsidies to oil and gas continue to distort the market slow progress to clean energy. OLIVER TICKELL reports
… only in the amount it has cut investment in solar and wind energy. And state subsidies to … growth and dramatic reductions in costs of solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind, renewable … conventional power plants." Market prices Solar PV emerges in the report as the "star …
It will take decades to completely leave fossil fuels, writes Richard Heinberg. But we can do it, starting with the easy stuff: going big time for wind and solar, raising energy efficiency, replacing oil-fuelled vehicles, and moving to organic farming. But deeper changes will follow as we transition to a more enduring sustainability - consuming better, and much less.
… the easy stuff: going big time for wind and solar, raising energy efficiency, replacing … fuels) for alternative ones (mostly wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, and biomass) that … the transition would be to replace coal with solar and wind power for electricity …
How do we spur more microgrids powered by renewable energy? Deregulate, writes Bill Watkins, ending the monopolies enjoyed by centralized energy companies. The alternative is to keep consumers and micro-generators stuck with the energy equivalent of the 'Princess' phone.
… Economy Renewables Fossil Fuels Technology solar_panels_on_house_roof_winter_view-cut.jpg … with power. Germany became a world power in solar through deregulation: the country's … they are a natural fit for technologies like solar and demand response. A smaller, …
The UK government and its Chancellor George Osborne are grossly misleading the public over the relative costs of renewable energy and nuclear power, writes Oliver Tickell. Osborne's claim that nuclear is the 'cheapest low carbon technology' is the very reverse of the truth. He and his nuclear plans must be stopped.
… today's money. Onshore wind and ground-based solar projects have bid for 'contracts for … with either onshore wind or field scale solar PV. So back to the Treasury. What is the … 35 years of its CFD period to 2060. As far as solar power is concerned, the UK's Solar Trade …
The past year was the cleanest on record for the British grid as zero carbon technology exceeded electricity supplies from polluting fuels.
… Renewable Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Solar Power National Grid 22750559-1.jpg The … grid as zero carbon technology such as wind, solar and nuclear exceeded electricity … National Grid shows wind farms, hydro plants, solar and nuclear energy, alongside clean …
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, …
Mainstream energy analysts cling firmly to the belief that fossil fuels will attract the lion's share of world energy investment for a long time to come, writes Michael Klare. But there are four compelling reasons why they are wrong. The renewable revolution is under way, and has already gathered an unstoppable momentum.
… including a surprising surge in wind and solar installations, suggest that oil's … as enduring as imagined. "Rapidly spreading solar technology could change everything" , … landscape, while improvements in wind and solar technology are occurring at an …
Nuclear power advocates cling like limpets to the idea of 'baseload' power, writes Michael Mariotte. No surprise there - it's the only selling point they've got. It's just too bad the idea is obsolete. Variable renewables combined with stronger grids, energy storage and responsive demand can do a better job for less money. No wonder the shills are getting desperate.
… needs for sufficient generation of wind and solar power are too great. This turns out to … that the variable nature of some renewables-solar and wind-can't provide that reliability. … by their low cost, or as one writer put it: "solar and wind eat their own lunch." But that …
The attempt by the US Supreme Court to stall the White House Clean Power Plan is being thwarted on the ground, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. The numbers show that new renewable energy installation around the US is outpacing even natural gas - leaving coal in the dust, and new nuclear at a big round zero.
… of new wind capacity and 7.3 gigawatts of new solar photovoltaics were installed in 2015. … Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) have solar and wind well outpacing new installation … from the traditional - and continued - solar growth in rooftop PV panels, the EIA …
The cyclists of the Tour de France may not set off until next week but in Kenya a group of young people have taken to their bikes to raise awareness about the power of sustainable energy ahead of the country's general election on August 8.
JOE WARE reports
… It is much quicker and cheaper to erect solar panels and wind turbines than wait for a … holding community energy cafés powered by solar panels and doing interviews with … country's abundant and reliable resources of solar and wind power, as well as renewable …
If UK politicians want to reunite the country and garner votes they'd do well to embrace renewables in their manifestos, writes JOE WARE
… good to see that public support for wind and solar is at an all-time high according to the … with offshore even more popular at 79% while solar has almost universal support at 86%. … for renewables promising to double wind and solar capacity by 2022. China's big push …
The ever-falling cost of renewable energy could leave investors in coal, gas and oil seriously out of pocket as demand for fossil fuels falls away, writes Paul Brown. In the wake of the Paris Agreement and shrinking markets in major importing countries, the smart money is moving into renewables.
… News Fossil Fuels Renewables Oil Gas Coal Solar Wind Energy 6401946349_0f1471ca20_o.jpg … from renewables - principally wind and solar power - that is being blamed for the … in Europe and Asia as the number of wind and solar installations grows in both continents, …