Just before Christmas, the Government released energy/electricity statistics for the third quarter of this year (Q3 2016). The figures showed that fifty per cent of the electricity generated during Q3 came from “low-carbon” sources, half from nuclear and half from renewables and less than 4 per cent from coal. While the total renewables figure of [...]
According to the latest report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), in 2015 the total growth in annual renewable electricity capacity, at 153 gigawatts (GW) was greater than ever before. This total included record increases in both onshore wind (63 GW) and solar photovoltaics (49 GW) as price reductions make turbines and solar panels increasingly [...]
The Committee on Climate Change and the Parliamentary Advisory Group on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) both released reports on CCS during the summer. They were spurred into action by the lack of any government plan following the cancellation last autumn of the CCS competition and the associated £1 billion budget. Although the two reports [...]