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A mini power station in every building
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 15th August 2008 at 10:17 am
Renewable energy is at the heart of new proposals to solve the triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices. The goal of ‘every building a power station’ is just one of the ideas outlined in the recently published. A Green New Deal. The proposals put forward by t…
Posted in: General, Energy efficiency
Feed-in tariff likely to boost microgeneration
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 10th November 2008 at 10:44 am
How lovely (and how rare) to be applauding an announcement from the Government. Not only has the newly appointed energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, just committed the UK to the 80 per cent cuts in greenhouse gases by 2050 that scientists say we need, but he’s also promised a feed-…
Posted in: General, Solar electricity, Wind turbines
What the renewable energy strategy and low carbon transition plan mean for your home
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 20th July 2009 at 3:01 pm
Households are expected to make cuts in their carbon emissions of 29% by 2020 according to the Government's Low Carbon Transition Plan, announced by Ed Miliband last week (houses currently emit more than a third of the UK's carbon). This will be done through a combination of cutting the amount o…
Posted in: General, Solar electricity, Wind turbines
Low carbon UK is well down the pecking order
Posted by Cathy Debenham on 17th September 2009 at 11:35 am
How much does the government really care about shifting the UK to a low carbon economy? Not a lot is the only conclusion I can come to from its spending figures. Yesterday's Guardian published a wonderfully simple, easy to read, chart called the definitive atlas of UK government spending, created…
Posted in: General, Energy efficiency
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