A new vision to replace our grazing land with energy crops will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but many are unwilling to embrace its suggestions for our future diet and countryside
… Biomass Britain: do fields of energy crops spell an end to grazing … 2010 News Biomass Renewables Food And Farming Energy biomasscrops.jpg Britain's fields of livestock could be replaced by energy crops like Miscanthus A new vision to …
New reports show the huge potential of renewables in Southern Europe to rekindle prosperity, writes Helle Abelvik-Lawson, using clean, low cost energy from wind, solar and geothermal sources backed up with pumped storage hydro, displacing dirty lignite and oil fired generation.
… Europe Helle Abelvik-Lawson Greenpeace Energydesk | 17th November 2015 News Renewables Energy EU Spain Greece Italy … Helle Abelvik-Lawson, using clean, low cost energy from wind, solar and geothermal sources …
The government has an opportunity to show real leadership on energy and climate change this week, writes Richard Layard - by making the UK the first country to sign up to a global research effort to replace fossil fuels with renewables as the world's primary power source.
… Richard Layard | 5th October 2015 Comment Energy Climate Change Renewables … has an opportunity to show real leadership on energy and climate change this week, writes … expect to hear more on this theme coming from Energy Secretary Amber Rudd at this week's …
The government claims that we need nuclear 'baseload' power to keep the lights on, writes Damian Kahya. But a new study shows reliable, low carbon energy can be provided by combining diverse green technologies including efficiency, large scale renewables, 'smart grid', energy storage and rarely used fossil fuel backup.
… - without new nuclear Damian Kahya Greenpeace Energydesk | 21st September 2015 Comment Energy Renewables UK Nuclear … But a new study shows reliable, low carbon energy can be provided by combining diverse …
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.
… us all Jane Fae | 28th October 2013 Comment Energy Climate Change Renewables Wind Solar … dug his party deeper and deeper into the energy mire yesterday afternoon, it was the … war on things, from drugs to porn to energy companies, almost always goes down well …
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 …
France's energy minister Ségolène Royal has backed union demands for the EDF's Hinkley C project in Somerset to be re-examined, write Angelique Chrisafis & Chris Johnston - adding that the project must not go ahead if it would 'dry out' funds needed for EDF's renewable energy program.
… French energy minister: Hinkley C must not 'dry out' … Chris Johnston | 8th April 2016 News France Energy Nuclkear Renewables Politics UK hinkley-protest-cut.jpg France's energy minister Ségolène Royal has backed …
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 …
The president of the World Bank has promised to back out of financing coal developments, and instead target its finance at 'every dimension of renewable energy' under a new climate-friendly strategy.
… World Bank to focus on 'all forms of renewable energy' John Vidal the Guardian | 25th November 2014 News Finance Renewables Energy Development … its finance at 'every dimension of renewable energy' under a new climate-friendly strategy. …
Wind and solar technology made up over half of Europe’s new electricity generating capacity in 2009, as the number of new coal and nuclear facilities fell
… The Ecologist | 4th February 2010 News Wind Energy Renewables windturbinesoffshore.jpg … released today by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) . Wind accounted for 39 per cent of increased European energy capacity, ahead of gas (26 per cent) …
Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward
… Mark Jansen | 10th February 2010 News Solar Energy Africa Renewables Csp Desertec … in the world's deserts, to give us all the energy we need? This concept has long been … at the House of Commons was attended by the energy minister Lord Philip Hunt, as well as …
Repowering London is an energising force - not just making renewable energy projects happen, but engaging communities to finance them, training young people to install them, and ensuring the benefits stay local. Lucy Anna Scott meets the dynamic Agamemnon Otero ...
… energising force - not just making renewable energy projects happen, but engaging … launches its latest community-owned renewable energy project - an initiative to help … Boris Johnson and secretary of state for energy and climate change, Edward Davey paying …
With the UK's Hinkley Point deal hanging in the balance, a new study casts fresh doubts over future of nuclear energy in Europe, writes JAMES HAKNER
… James Hakner | 24th August 2016 News Nuclear Energy Renewables Climate Action hinkley c.jpg … casts fresh doubts over future of nuclear energy in Europe, writes JAMES HAKNER A strong national commitment to nuclear energy goes hand-in-hand with a weak …
A bunch of innovations are taking place in the world of solar power, writes Zachary Davies Boren - and one or more of them could just propel the technology from providing just 1% of the world's electricity, to dominating the world's energy supply. Provided they work ...
… but will they work? Zachary Boren Greenpeace Energy Desk | 17th December 2014 Comment Solar … electricity, to dominating the world's energy supply. Provided they work ... Solar has always been the renewable energy sector's prodigal son, with the …
Off-grid renewable energy is key to achieving the global goal of 100% electricity access by 2030, writes Adnan Z. Amin, and to achieving the emissions reductions enshrined in the Paris Agreement. Thankfully, a confluence of factors - including rapid cost declines and impressive technology innovations - are making this goal more achievable than ever, and investment in the sector is taking off.
… Adnan Z. Amin IRENA | 4th October 2016 News Energy Renewables Development Solar Water … reenergising_cut.jpg Off-grid renewable energy is key to achieving the global goal of … pay 60 to 80 times more per kilowatt-hour for energy-related products - like charcoal, …
The world's poorest and most vulnerable countries are doing their bit to promote the expansion of renewable energy. The least we can do in the developed world is to ensure the money in our bank account helps rather than hinders their efforts, writes JOE WARE
… bit to promote the expansion of renewable energy. The least we can do in the developed … leading the way in the promotion of renewable energy. Despite not having the historical … had the Least Developed Countries Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Initiative, the …
The coalition Government's silence on the Severn tidal barrage may be a reflection of the high economic costs rather than the environmental concerns surrounding the project
… 2010 News Tidal Water Severn Tidal Barrier Energy Renewables severn_barrage.jpg A map of … oil, by developing clean, renewable forms of energy has in recent years given the idea … under EU law to obtaining 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. A …
The Government's reckless pursuit of fracking and nuclear power, combined with its irrational hatred of renewables, onshore wind in particular, is taking the UK down a dangerous energy cul-de-sac, write Peter Strachan & Alex Russell. A redical rethink is due, or we'll be stuck with soaring fuel bills for years to come.
… The Tories' energy obsessions will leave us all the poorer … Alex Russell | 24th June 2015 Comment Energy UK Renewables Wind Nuclear Politics … particular, is taking the UK down a dangerous energy cul-de-sac, write Peter Strachan & Alex …
The economic impacts of the Brexit vote will very soon make themselves felt to British consumers, writes Chris Goodall - kicking off with higher fuel bills and pump prices. The good news is that nuclear power is now looking increasingly unaffordable. But renewables and green energy research are also likely to suffer, especially if under a right-wing Brexit government.
… renewables, an end to nuclear power: Brexit's energy shakeout Chris Goodall | 28th June 2016 News Energy Politics UK EU Economics Brexit Fossil … unaffordable. But renewables and green energy research are also likely to suffer, …
If the UK really wants 3.2GW of 'baseload' power in Somerset, then the Hinkley C nuclear power station is not the only way, write Marie-Louise Heddrich, Thorsten Lenck and Carlos Perez Linkenheil. Wind power with 'wind to gas' plant and CCGT gas power stations could do the same - faster, cheaper, more flexibily, and at much lower technical and financial risk.
… greener than Hinkley Point C nuclear plant Energy Brainpool | 17th February 2016 Comment Nuclear Energy Finance Wind Renewables … the windgas alternative using the Power2Sim energy market model, based on hourly …
The first ever global life-cycle assessment of clean energy sources shows that a renewable system could supply the world's entire electricity needs by mid-century, writes Tim Radford.
… by 2050 Tim Radford | 15th October 2014 News Energy Renewables Science Mining … ever global life-cycle assessment of clean energy sources shows that a renewable system … writes Tim Radford. A global low-carbon energy economy is not only feasible - it could …
The Government has gutted its 'zero carbon home' standard - builders will be able to 'zero the carbon' through an offsetting scheme - rather than by installing more insulation, or renewable technologies like solar PV or solar water heating.
… | 4th June 2014 News Carbon Building UK Energy Efficiency Renewables Solar … to homeowners" , according to the Renewable Energy Association (REA). Leonie Green of the … opportunity for new homes to have lower energy bills" , says the REA - savings which, …