This is the second and final article on community based renewable energy projects in remote locations and the problems they can encounter. This second piece is about wind power By Stewart Dalby Wind power has been a different story at a local level to other renewable energy projects, such as marine current turbines, in remote [...]
This is the first of two articles on community based renewable energy projects in remote locations and the problems they can encounter. This first piece concerns marine tidal turbines By Stewart Dalby The Shetland Islands are 106 miles north of John O’Groats in Scotland and they are thus very remote from UK mainland energy infrastructure. [...]
Since Mrs Theresa May became Britain’s prime minister a year there has been repeated talk that her government would introduce a cap on energy prices because of widespread discontent with the way the so called “Big Six” power suppliers have been over-charging consumers. Nothing was done until she called a general election. It then seemed [...]
There are now serious new doubts that Britain’s putative first new nuclear power plant in a generation, Hinkley Point C in Somerset in south west England, will ever be built. These doubts have arisen as the British government has delayed making a final decision on the most expensive infrastructure project ever contemplated in the UK, [...]
Germany’s nuclear problems likely to linger long after plant closures Germany has had a controversial and tortured relationship with nuclear power for a long time- since before the Second World War in fact. Michael Muller was a member of the Bundestag for 26 years for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and was from 2005 to [...]