A floating wind turbine suitable for use in deep water. Image: By Ole.stobbe.offshore, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the www.climatenewsnetwork.net website by Paul Brown Wind power is the cheapest way to produce electricity, but some are not persuaded. The World Bank is out to change minds. Europe and the United States now accept onshore [...]
By Barney Smith Even before this issue was highlighted, there was no doubt that one of the casualties of the Covid 19 pandemic would be the campaign to reduce the use of plastic in the world, particularly single-use plastic. That is hardly surprising, one of the main focuses of the fight against the virus has [...]
A recent International Energy Authority (IEA) report warned that investment in renewables in 2018 was faltering while investment in, and expenditure on, hydrocarbons was rising. Specifically the figure for coal mining in 2018, at US$80 billion, rose by 2.6 per cent by comparison with 2017, while the figure for oil and gas capital expenditure increased [...]
Fossil fuel burning is pushing CO2 levels ever higher. Image: By Tony Webster, via Wikimedia Commons This article first appeared on the Climate News Network.Net website by Tim Radford The modern world is about to pass a temperature peak dating back for millions of years – because CO2 levels have already passed an ancient record.. LONDON, [...]
This is the second of two articles on the chaos in the UK’s energy policy In the first article on the UK’s energy situation I wrote about the mess Mrs May’s government had got itself into with its attempts to put a ceiling on energy prices for the country’s 30million or so households. The long-delayed [...]
It could only happen to the accident-prone UK prime minister Mrs May, couldn’t it? After more than 18 months of procrastination she finally, last week (on 26 February) put legislation before parliament which would impose a cap, or ceiling, on energy prices. Unfortunately, three days later (on 1 March) the National Grid announced that the [...]
The suave Mr Iain Conn, the head of Centrica which owns British Gas, one of the so-called “Big Six” oligopoly of providers which has dominated the UK retail energy market, can hardly be said to be lacking in self-confidence. As an unnamed colleague of his at the major oil company BP, where he previously worked [...]
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 [...]