A letter from Energy Secretary Amber Rudd leaked to The Ecologist shows that she misled Parliament by promising the UK was 'on course' to deliver on its renewable energy targets - when in fact there is a delivery shortfall in 2020 of almost 25%. Her plan to fill the gap relies on more biofuels, buying in green power and 'credits' from abroad - everything but wind and solar.
… Tickell | 9th November 2015 News Energy Renewables Politics Finance EU UK Law … we were way in excess of [spending limits on renewables], but were still meeting our renewables targets , it was right to limit the …
After ten massive renewable energy cuts that are leaving the UK falling well short of EU renewable energy targets, an eleventh! The axe is now falling on solar heating, writes Oliver Tickell - even though it's meant to be at the core of the government's renewable energy strategy.
… Tickell | 7th March 2016 News Energy Finance Renewables UK Politics Solar EU … next year. This is yet another cut to renewables subsidies after the influential … renewable heat is the 'major focus for UK renewables policy'. In 2014 green sources …
The UK government kicked away one of the main financial supports for renewable energy in yesterday's budget. The surprise move will cost the sector £3.9 billion over the next five years and undermines any prospect of the country meeting its EU renewable energy targets.
… Osborne's £3.9bn stealth attack on renewables Oliver Tickell | 9th July 2015 News UK Energy Renewables Biomass Politics Finance … removing the climate change levy exemption on renewables was "taxing clean power as if it …
Britain's renewable energy surge will hit the buffers as funding dries up, writes David Toke - while cuts to the energy department's budget will wipe out its ability to guide the UK's low carbon energy transition.
… Treasury to axe UK renewables, low carbon transition David Toke … The Ecologist | 6th July 2015 News UK Energy Renewables Finance Politics … Largely because of the very success of the renewables deployment programme and 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.
… Off-grid renewables: the sustainable route to 100% … Z. Amin IRENA | 4th October 2016 News Energy Renewables Development Solar Water Finance … access through the development of off-grid renewables, as estimates suggest these …
Since the last big climate conference in 2009 the world's biggest private sector banks have provided more than nine more money to fossil fuels than to renewable energy - showing up their oft-repeated 'green finance' promises as little more than PR puff.
… nine times more money into fossil fuels than renewables The Ecologist | 3rd November 2015 … provided just $98 billion in finance to the renewables sector. The news comes in a report … fuel companies, and just $6.5 billion to renewables; Bank of America provided $62.7 …
The UK's community energy sector was badly hit by the financial regulator's sudden decision this summer to disallow renewable energy co-operatives, writes Tammy Calvert. A consultation on the topic ends tomorrow, Friday - so get your views in quickly while you can!
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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 … 2015 News India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar Finance China … Minister Nerandra Modi unveiled plans for renewables to account for 15% of his nation's …
A partnership between an Oxford-based social enterprise and the local Council provides a blueprint for financing community energy projects, writes Wendy Twist. And with £2.3 million in the bank, things are really starting to move ...
… Pioneering community renewables in Oxford Wendy Twist | 11th July 2014 Ethical Living Renewables Climate Change UK Green Economy … of electricity, and the incentives paid to renewables generators out of a levy on …
A new report by accountancy giant EY says the UK's Conservative government has sentenced renewable energy sector to 'death by a thousand cuts', writes Emma Howard, and left investors puzzled at inexplicable policy changes.
… Environment | 16th September 2015 News Energy Renewables Finance Politics … deputy chief executive of the trade body RenewablesUK, said: "The biggest worry for … which are substantially more expensive than renewables such as on onshore wind and solar …
New book sets out 'the human side of the renewable energy revolution' - read an extract here.
… - read an extract here. As the transition to renewables speeds up, governments will have to … they are clear about new job creation (in renewables or any other sector) and how to …
An energy revolution that would take the world to 100% renewables in 15 years is possible, write Sam Cossar-Gilbert and Dipti Bhatnagar. We have the technology, and we even have the money - only it's currently being spent to subsidise fossil fuels. The time has come to tackle two hugely destructive and closely entwined crises - growing inequality and climate change.
… Powering the world with renewables - we can do it! Dipti Bhatnagar Sam … | 23rd November 2015 Comment Climate Change Renewables Finance COP21 Society … revolution that would take the world to 100% renewables in 15 years is possible, write Sam …
As the G20 meet in China this weekend, it's time for governments to finally get tough on the world's tax dodgers, write Dipti Bhatnagar & Sam Cossar-Gilbert. The missing tax revenues would be able to finance a 100% renewable electricity system covering half the planet by 2030 - a major step in raising living standards and tackling climate change.
… | 2nd September 2016 Comment Energy Renewables Finance Politics Green Economy … to reliably generate 100% of electricity from renewables in regions of the developing world …
The renewable energy revolution is in full swing, writes Jeremy Leggett, with costs falling to new lows, deployment of wind and solar surging to unprecedented highs, and confidence ebbing away from fossil fuels. But global warming is also accelerating, with global temperature records broken every month for a year. Will the energy transition happen in time to avert catastrophe?
… Renewables versus climate change - the battle … Jeremy Leggett | 7th June 2016 News Energy Renewables Solar Wind Climate Change Oceans … driving solid growth in grid penetration by renewables. Germany generated almost all its …
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.
… Unfccc Energy Fossil Fuels Gas Coal Fracking Renewables Finance thistle-alpha-cut.jpg The … fuel subsidies that favour dirty energy over renewables, writes Tony Juniper. Sadly the UK … fuel subsidies - £26 billion a year - dwarf renewables support. The UK's Department for …
Despite Cameron's promise to lead the 'greenest Government ever', the environment has taken a heavy bashing since the 2015 election, writes David Clubb - whether on oil, fracking, renewable energy or planning policy. But Wales is doing its best to follow a sustainable path, and demonstrating badly needed environmental leadership that the whole UK would do well to follow.
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The Labour party conference adopted the most radical climate policy of any in a G20 economy - but there will be battles ahead: with the leadership, and with union bosses.
… the electricity to users) would stay private. Renewables It is hard to see how a Labour … reasons: 1. Modern electricity technologies – renewables, plus networks that distribute … are left in corporates’ hands, the shift to renewables will never happen on any timescale …
The Apollo Programme proposed this week to make renewable energy cheaper than coal through technological advances is welcome, writes James Dyke. But the real problems are political, not technological. Unless we back the Apollo vision by challenging the power of fossil fuel companies, it can never succeed.
… 'Global Apollo' programme for renewables cannot take off without political … James Dyke | 4th June 2015 Comment Energy Renewables Fossil Fuels Corporations Politics … has launched an 'Apollo programme' for renewables, called Global Apollo . Its mission …
The 'Autumn Statement' delivered with such aplomb by the Chancellor is yet another attack on the UK's sustainable future, write David Lowry & Oliver Tickell - cutting energy efficiency funds just as tens of thousands are set to die of cold this winter, betting £250m on pointless nuclear research, and raiding the renewables budget to fund subsidies to nuclear power and fossil fuels.
… Politics Energy Climate Change Fossil Fuels Renewables Finance UK osborne-cut.jpg The … pointless nuclear research, and raiding the renewables budget to fund subsidies to nuclear … PV and thermal." "The chancellor is slashing renewables and energy efficiency investment, …
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 ...
… | 23rd June 2014 Comment Cities London UK Renewables Society Finance … to deliver it." Tackling fuel poverty with renewables It is just weeks before Repowering …
The UK government has announced massive cuts in support for solar roofs and farms that appear designed to undermine investor confidence just as the technology is on track to be subsidy-free by 2020.
… The Ecologist | 22nd July 2015 News Solar Renewables Energy Finance Politics UK … in solar farms. The proposals cover both the Renewables Obligation for bigger projects, and … the Feed-in Tariff for smaller projects. The Renewables Obligation, which supports rooftop …
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
… | 7th December 2016 News COP22 Fossil Fuels Renewables Finance Divestment … to global climate leadership. Labelled the ‘Renewables COP', Marrakech delivered on this …
Another week, another renewable energy cut. This time George Osborne is swinging the axe at tax breaks for community renewable energy schemes, writes Aisha Gani - even though previous cuts have already made 90% of projects unviable.
… Environment | 30th October 2015 News Energy Renewables Finance Politics UK … deal a further blow to the UK's embattled renewables sector, green campaigners have … by 87%. 'Too much negativity' being thrown at renewables Jan-Willem Bode, the managing …
The surprise removal of tax benefits for investors in community renewable energy schemes - effective from Monday - is unlawful and must be reversed, states a legal letter to the Treasury. But meanwhile, investments in the sector have hit record levels, with two days still to go.
… Osborne's community renewables tax 'unlawful' The Ecologist | 27th November 2015 News Energy Finance Renewables Law Politics UK Community …