Well now, what have we here then – the UK experiencing it’s sunniest and hottest spell of weather in many a year? That’s got to be worth celebrating hasn’t it? Pimms o’clock anyone? It’s got…
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UK Companies in Favour of Decarbonisation Says Davey
Energy and climate secretary, Ed Davey, has claimed that the “vast majority” of the UK’s companies would welcome targets set by the government for the decarbonisation of the electricity sector, with only “one or two”…
Think Tank Finds Turning Away From Gas Will Boost Economy
According to the Cambridge Econometrics think tank, the UK would be £20bn better off in 2030 by focusing on offshore wind farms as a means of replacing aging power plants, as opposed to increasing gas…
Africa’s Biggest Power Plant to Built in Ghana
Ghana is to see a significant rise in energy capacity, as well as the creation of hundreds of jobs, thanks to the building of the continent’s largest solar power plant. A British company, Blue Energy,…
Green Steve Poll Results: 87% Of Respondents Don’t Want To Pay For Renewables
In an exclusive poll I conducted on Facebook (very scientific I know), over 87% of people did not want to have to foot the bill for investment in new renewable energy capacity. With the government’s…
Tory MP Backs Anti-Wind Farm Rival as Part of Byelection ‘Strategy’
A reporter working for Greenpeace has obtained covertly filmed footage of Chris Heaton-Harris, the Conservative Campaign Manager for the Corby by-election, in which the MP claims to have helped engineer the campaign of James Delingpole,…
New Power Station to Run On Landfill-Bound Waste
A disused coal-fired power station in Cheshire has received government approval to reopen as an energy-from-waste plant. The Department of Energy and Climate Change released the news that a year long inquiry has concluded in…
Conclusive Figures Expound Wind Farm Myths
An analysis of data from the National Grid by The Guardian has revealed that, contrary to the claims of anti-wind farm lobbyists, wind generated power is helping to lower emissions on a national level. Indeed,…
Anti-Wind Farm Campaign Ad Banned for Misleading Public
The anti-wind turbine campaigning body, ‘Communities Against Windfarms in Scotland’, has come in for criticism from the advertising watchdog for running an ad which depicts what the Scottish landscape might look like if it were…
Recycling Nappies & Power Generating “Kites”
Now and again I like to look out into the world of green technology and find instances of innovation that could one day become the norm. A couple of stories recently caught my eye and…
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