With a new analysis showing UK wind farms operating at just 20 per cent of their capacity in 2010, the potential of wind power has been called into question. Eifion Rees examines the arguments from both sides
… Wind industry and Decc urged to come clean on output of wind farms Eifion Rees | 4th May 2011 News Wind Energy Renewables turbine.jpg A lack of …
Offshore wind power is crucial if the UK is to meet its renewable energy targets - but a lack of suitably powerful and reliable technology could hamper efforts, reports David Strahan
… to design supersized turbines to maximise wind power potential David Strahan | 1st March 2011 News Energy Climate Change Wind Power Renewables Investigations turbine1.jpg Offshore wind power is crucial if the UK is to meet its …
A breakdown of how major countries compare on their success in attracting investment in wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy in the past year
… | 29th March 2011 News Renewables Energy Wind Solar Biomass Biofuels News … on their success in attracting investment in wind, solar and other forms of renewable … into its clean energy sector, mostly to wind power projects, according to analysis by …
Angela Merkel’s decision to dispense with nuclear power has left environmentalists around the world exploring alternatives. Henry Gass weighs up the options
… Living Renewables Nuclear Power Home Solar Wind Biomass Green Living Science And … benefit in having a panel sitting in a fresh wind or something, but still bathed in … to what you can do.’ Limited options: wind turbines and biomass Despite the economic …
In the latest in his exclusive series examining ethical businesses, Peter Salisbury reports on the rise of the leading eco-electricity supplier - and hears how it all started with a cocktail
… Jakubowski wanted to build or invest in wind, solar, biomass and hydro energy plants … customers, bought the ten-turbine Delabole wind farm in Cornwall, and got its own … selling the energy he didn’t use from the wind turbines, solar panels and small …
Much more than just a tool to engage communities in climate change issues, the solar industry argues it could meet between 6-8 per cent of the UK's electricity needs by 2020
… change. Our government sees large-scale wind farms as the primary means by which the … be generated by renewables by 2020, mostly by wind power. Reaching 30 per cent renewable … the money would be better spent on hydro or wind power, which is much more cost-effective. …
With Japan's nuclear catastrophe still far from resolved, Dr Paul Dorfman argues why nuclear remains 'economically unreliable' and why it will be the taxpayer who ends up being liable as well as facing all the risks
… reminds us: 'Germany has installed more wind power capacity than the entire current UK …