A major US wind energy company is fined $1 million in the country's first-ever settlement over bird deaths caused by wind turbines, after 149 protected birds were killed.
… Wind turbine bird deaths - company pays $1m fine Eco-Watch | 29th November 2013 News Wind Renewables Energy Regulation golden-eagle.png A major US wind energy company is fined $1 million in the …
Prices paid in the UK to solar and wind generators will change to favour offshore wind at the expense of the others. Jim Platt warns that the policy is doomed to failure - offshore wind is just too expensive, and likely to remain so.
… Offshore wind is too expensive! Jim Platts | 7th December 2013 Comment Wind Renewables Energy Oceans offshore-wind-on-the-rocks.png Prices paid in the UK to …
From Shetland, Thembi Mutch reports on how the close knit community of the island are responding to the possibility of a huge wind farm (currently going through judicial review) changing their landscape forever.....
… The winds of change Thembi Mutch | 11th October 2013 News Wind Farm Renewables Community shetland.jpg … it comes to harnessing the power of 'their' wind From Shetland, Thembi Mutch reports on …
Luke Dale-Harris questions whether our concern over climate change is actually driving us to invest in renewable technologies that negatively impact the very natural wonders we are aiming to preserve....
… Wind Power: What is it we are trying to save? … worldwide each year from collisions with wind turbines. Luke Dale-Harris questions … are right and they produce little else, wind farms most certainly generate debate. …
Major funders of the pro-fossil fuel Global Warming Policy Foundation are always keen to speak out against public support for renewable energy, writes Brendan Montague. So how come they're so keen to help themselves to a fortune in farm subsidies?
… Wind farm subsidies bad, farm subsidies good? … | 10th August 2013 Comment Energy Renewables Wind Economics Farming UK wind-turbines-co-durham-cut.jpg Major funders …
20,000 square kilometres of Ethiopia are suitable for grid-based wind power generation, with a total capacity of 100 GW.
… Africa's biggest wind farm opens Oliver Tickell | 26th October … Energy Africa Electricity Ethiopia Renewables WindWind Power 20,000 square kilometres of …
"Extraordinary pricing opportunities will lower utility costs by an estimated $53 million in the first year and even more thereafter."
… Oklahoma goes for Wind Oliver Tickell | 22nd October 2013 News Wind Energy Power USA Oklahoma Renewables … Oklahoma has signed up to 600MW of new wind power - and it will save the state …
In her new weekly column, the Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on the stories that show standing up for what we believe in can and does make a real difference.
… | 13th January 2013 News Renewables Uruguay Wind Power shutterstock_65944045.jpg Uruguay … UK government seems to blow hot then cold on wind power - with the Planning Minister Nick Boles now stating that wind farms should be situated at least 1.4 …
The RSPB's reaction to a wind farm application in Scotland's Flow Country demonstrates that supporting green energy is not always so straightforward ...
… nature conservation charity objects to wind farm application Andrea Gear | 29th October 2013 News Wind Farms Climate Change Energy RSPB The RSPB's reaction to a wind farm application in Scotland's Flow …
EDF etc have been offered terms for constructing Hinkley C which are way superior to the terms being currently offered to renewable energy ...
… Give community wind power the same EMR terms as Hinkley C! … Nuclear Energy Power Renewables Subsidy windpower.jpg Why must renewable energy get … Electricity Market Reform (EMR), to community wind power schemes (and also, in crucial ways, …
Peter Hume examines plans for a zero-carbon, zero-waste, car free city in Abu Dhabi that will rely entirely on renewable energy sources, and asks whether the concept can become a sustainable reality......
… in the 630MW London Array, the 6MW Seychelles Wind Farm, a 60% stake in SHAMS-1 (see below), … Some, such as photovoltaic panels and wind turbines, are not innovative in … dust is omnipresent, and water is scarce. Wind power The gulf is not a windy region, and …
The truth is that 'green costs' are an investment that benefit all of us. Yet, to capitalise on that investment will take long-term vision, commitment, and a willingness to make and explain hard decisions.
… 2013 Comment Energy Climate Change Renewables Wind Solar offshore-wind.png The truth is that 'green costs' are … on its way to becoming a world leader in both wind and solar. It was therefore a sobering …
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 ...
… around the world. 'New' renewables - wind, solar, wave, tidal, geothermal The 'new' non-hydro renewables - wind and solar especially - are expanding even … hydro capacity. There is now nearly 300GW of wind capacity in place and over 100 GW of PV …
Bibi van der Zee discovers there is no excuse for Britain – still struggling with an energy system built for the 1950s – not to construct a new and greener energy system fit for the 21st century. All that is lacking is the political will.
… that is where we are: the Westmill community wind and solar plant. Five large turbines and … energy for us – oil, coal, gas, nuclear, wind, water, sun, and an assortment of others … every year. Then there are renewables – wind, both onshore and off, solar and biomass. …
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 ...
… in the UK. Yet Rebecca Cooke finds that wind and solar offers local people a better … and makes planning easier for Councils. Wind farms offer a similar standard annual … again for the 30-year term. In addition, wind farm developers RES offer an energy bill …
The coalition government's disputes over climate change policy are undermining investor confidence, Lord Stern has warned.
… repor t that Centrica is set to scrap a wind farm project powering 450,000 homes … support for the development of offshore wind farms, imperilling other proposed … reform. "We're now world-beaters on offshore wind technology; per head we now have more …
Renewable energy sounds like the obvious solution for a power-hungry planet in a greenhouse world. But where will all the minerals come from?
… the construction of solar energy farms and wind turbines will gobble up 15 times more … times more iron, copper and glass. Right now wind and solar energy meet only about 1% of … The trio argue that if the contribution from wind turbines and solar energy to global …
Following the UK Government's announcement of huge public subsidies for the proposed Hinkley C nuclear power station in Somerset, England, Energy Fair has called on EU Commissioner Almunia to open a formal investigation for breaches of competition law.
… between 9 and 25 times more CO 2 than wind power (see bit.ly/1afpW06 ). Other … more than the unsubsidised cost of offshore wind power (about £140 per MWh), itself … There are many acceptable options for siting wind and solar power plants, including wind …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline....
… is constructing and commissioning a series of wind farms throughout 2012–2014. The cumulative capacity of wind, solar PV, biogas and biomass in Mexico … to over 2,500 MW in 2011 and the completed wind farms will boost these figures even …
The Ecologist’s political writer, Bibi van der Zee, asks whether the German's energy policy is a crazy punt, or an example to be followed by other states.
… and for a while it had looked as if solar, wind and wave powers would be the energies of … from clean, renewable sources of energy; wind, biomass, solar, geothermal and small … plans to build powerlines from offshore wind farms in the north right down to the …
A revolution is under way in personal finance. Investment in clean energy projects is going retail, as people plough their savings and pension funds into renewable energy ventures offering much greater returns than bank deposits.
… They might not even like the look of wind farms. The rise of the retail investor … Group raised £300 million, Greencoat Wind £260 million and Bluefield Solar £130 … boiler and our electricity comes from a wind turbine at the end of the road. In the …
As George Osborne hails a renaissance for nuclear power in Britain, Alex Macbeth reviews Pandora's Promise, a new documentary film that asks whether we've got nuclear energy all wrong.......
… world, argues the filmmaker, hydro, solar, wind and thermal alone cannot meet demand and … on nuclear energy, estimates that 5.7 million wind turbines would need to be built to … Administration (EIA). Solar, hydro, wind and other renewable forms of energy are …
Ecologist writer Luke Dale-Harris questions the ability of Natura 2000 to work as an effective environmental regulator
… Renewable energy developments, most commonly wind farms, solar parks and hydroelectric … hasn’t stopped the planning of over 5,000 wind turbines in the region, 752 of which fall … But, unanimously, the proposals for the wind farms came backed by EIA reports …
"We all have yet to see what the surface environmental impact of fracking is and when we have seen it, then we would reach a view about it."
… land Oliver Tickell | 24th October 2013 News Wind Energy Gas Fracking "We all have yet to … than coal. However the Trust was opposed to wind farms on its estate. It was very … that the Trust "would ever promote or allow a windfarm on our land." "We are waiting for the …