The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… The future of energy is renewable Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 27th February 2009 News Renewable EnergyEnergy Oil UK Coal Gas Climate Change Global …
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.
… Oliver Tickell | 30th November 2016 News Energy Climate Change Oil Gas Coal Fossil … Nuclear flaring-cut.jpg The International Energy Agency's latest World Energy Outlook is calling for increased …
Ahead of the release of the World Bank's revised energy strategy, the Ecologist speaks to sustainable development advocate Srinivas Krishnaswamy about why despite huge gigawatt power projects, 45 per cent of India's households still lack electricity
… Why India doesn't need World Bank energy funding Matilda Lee | 3rd June 2011 Activism Climate Change & Energy World Bank Coal India Sustainable … of the release of the World Bank's revised energy strategy, the Ecologist speaks to …
From Australia to the UK, governments are pinning their hopes on 'carbon capture' technology stuck onto coal power stations, writes John Quiggin. But their choice carries a high risk of failure - the smart money is on renewables, energy storage and responsive power grids.
… John Quiggin | 16th January 2015 Comment Energy Renewables Coal Climate Change … failure - the smart money is on renewables, energy storage and responsive power grids. The … be powered by coal and oil or by renewable energy is crucially important, both to the …
Amber Rudd's speech today exposes her total failure to assemble a coherent energy strategy, writes Oliver Tickell. It reveals the increasingly certain failure to meet EU renewable energy targets, proposes a new tax on wind and solar generation, and leaves the country facing the real prospect of lights going out in the next decade. The one hard policy? To maximise oil and gas recovery.
… out? Amber Rudd's disastrous absence of an energy strategy Oliver Tickell | 18th November 2015 News Energy UK EU Politics Nuclear Coal Oil … her total failure to assemble a coherent energy strategy, writes Oliver Tickell. It …
As Greece prepares for its referendum, Takis Grigoriou takes Greece to task for its highly polluting lignite power sector, its ditching of a successful solar program in favour of more coal, the minimal insulation in its buildings that locks in high fuel bills, and Syriza's failure to tackle these issues. The good news? Greece's latest €1.4bn coal project looks like going unfunded.
… Greece’s anti-solar, coal-based energy policies underlie its economic collapse Takis Grigoriou Greenpeace EnergyDesk | 3rd July 2015 News Greece Solar Renewable Coal Energy Finance Politics …
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..
… Renewables to transform India's energy landscape in seven years Areeba Hamid Greenpeace EnergyDesk Oliver Tickell | 20th February 2015 News India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar …
The theme at COP21 today has been the urgent need to cut fossil fuel subsidies that favour dirty energy over renewables, writes Tony Juniper. Sadly the UK is setting all the wrong examples - ramping up its spending on fossil fuels, while slashing its much smaller renewable energy budgets.
… | 30th November 2015 Comment COP21 Unfccc Energy Fossil Fuels Gas Coal Fracking … cut fossil fuel subsidies that favour dirty energy over renewables, writes Tony Juniper. … while slashing its much smaller renewable energy budgets. COP21 opened today in Paris …
Australia is betting the farm on huge increases in coal exports, writes Stephen Bygrave - just as key markets in China, India, Korea and Japan are drying up, with rising tariffs and huge renewable energy and efficiency programs. The policy is totally out of touch with reality - and will lead to revenue shortfalls in the AU$100 billions.
… 2014 Comment Australia Coal Climate Change Energy Fossil Fuels Finance … up, with rising tariffs and huge renewable energy and efficiency programs. The policy is … produced by the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE) predict continuing …
Polish PM Donald Tusk is using the Ukraine crisis as a pretext to revive the EU's fossil fuel industries. His proposals spell disaster for EU emissions targets and the wider environment, writes Mark Siddi. Europe's energy future must be efficient and renewable!
… Poland's 'EU energy union' plan: an attempt to revive … environment, writes Mark Siddi. Europe's energy future must be efficient and renewable! … Times calling for the formation of an EU energy union. According to Tusk, reducing the …
Germany cut emissions and boosted renewables to record levels last year, writes Henner Weithöner. Yet the country's coal burn remains the EU's highest - and ambitious emissions targets can only be met by closing coal-burning power stations.
… Coal's dark cloud hangs over Germany's energy revolution Henner Weithöner | 22nd … by closing coal-burning power stations. The energy market in Germany saw a spectacular change last year as renewable energy became the major source of its …
Japan and Germany have much in common: both are major industrial countries that have gone nuclear-free, writes Peter Matanle - Germany by choice, Japan by necessity. But while Germany is actively pursuing its renewable energy revolution, or Energiewende, Japan, possessed of the richest renewable energy resources in East Asia, is stuck in a fossil fuel pit.
… of Sheffield | 15th June 2015 News Japan Energy Coal Oil Nuclear Renewables Germany … Germany is actively pursuing its renewable energy revolution, or Energiewende, Japan, possessed of the richest renewable energy resources in East Asia, is stuck in a …
India is unable to shake off its ties to coal despite its commitment to renewable energy, giving rise to enormous social and environmental costs.
… The paradox of India’s energy transition Brototi Roy | 6th January 2021 | News Editor’s Picks Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Mormugao port in Goa, … to coal despite its commitment to renewable energy, giving rise to enormous social and …
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.
… | 10th November 2016 News Politics USA Energy Climate Change Fossil Fuels Coal Gas … unpredictable." But make no mistake, in the energy and climate space Trump's number one … There are other parts of the Obama energy legacy on which President Trump will …
Amount invested in marine energy is a drop in the ocean against more than £50m for collieries
… Terry Macalister | 24th August 2009 News Coal Energy Renewables Marine Tidal Wave … gen_logo_hi-res.jpg Amount invested in marine energy is a drop in the ocean against more … past six years than it has put into marine energy, new figures show. Ministers have given …
Moving to 100% clean, renewable energy is a win-win option for South Australia, writes Mark Diesendorf. First of all it's highly doable over a 25-year transition period. It will also bring lower power prices, more employment, better health and a cleaner environment. What's not to like?
… Mark Diesendorf | 18th July 2015 Comment Energy Renewables Coal Nuclear Australia Green … Moving to 100% clean, renewable energy is a win-win option for South … and Leigh Creek coal mine , after Alinta Energy yesterday announced plans to shut them …
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
… strikes Oliver Tickell | 1st June 2015 News Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Coal Climate … and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency. In a surprise move, climate and energy protestors have struck a bewildering …
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.
… power Oliver Tickell | 1st May 2015 News Energy Renewables Wind Solar Fossil Fuels Coal Nuclear solar-roof-cut.jpg Tesla Energy's new mains power battery has just transformed the energy market - giving a huge boost to small …
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.
… Supreme Court can't hold back the renewable energy revolution! Linda Pentz Gunter | 19th February 2016 Comment Energy Climate Change Renewables Fossil Fuels … Gunter. The numbers show that new renewable energy installation around the US is outpacing …
China has just recorded its first fall in emissions from burning fossil fuels in 15 years, writes Lauri Myllyvirta. The sharp decline has surprised analysts, and reflects the fast growing proportion of renewables in the country's power supply.
… fell 3% in 2014 Lauri Myllyvirta Greenpeace EnergyDesk | 27th February 2015 News China Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Emissions Climate … to newly released official Chinese energy data . The data confirms earlier …
The widely touted 'carbon capture and storage' technology is much more expensive than wind and solar, says a Greenpeace report. It also represents a perverse subsidy to the fossil fuel sector that will only boost coal and oil, and delay the transition to a renewable energy system.
… exposed The Ecologist | 26th May 2015 News Energy Climate Change Coal Oil Renewables … oil, and delay the transition to a renewable energy system. A new Greenpeace report, ' … significantly more expensive than renewable energy for attempting to reduce carbon …
China's success in driving down its fossil fuel burn will raise chances of a success at this year's Paris climate talks, writes Kieran Cooke - but first the world must appreciate the changes China is making, and how clean energy is catalysing a broader economic transformation.
… World must wake up to China's energy revolution Kieran Cooke | 15th June 2015 News Energy Renerwables Coal Fossil Fuels China … the changes China is making, and how clean energy is catalysing a broader economic …
As well as local outrage over 'fracking' drilling there is new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential gas boom near Blackpool
… | 13th April 2011 News Shale Gas Fracturing Energy Coal Methane Greenhouse Gas Emissions … shale rock formations. To release it the energy companies involved must inject … on the UK’s impetus towards renewable energy. What’s more local residents in the …
Despite outrage in the US over ‘fracturing’ techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool
… Tom Levitt | 13th April 2011 News Shale Gas Energy Investigations Renewables Coal Methane … shale rock formations. To release it the energy companies involved must inject … on the UK’s impetus towards renewable energy. What’s more local residents in the …