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• Renewable energy in the UK

  Posted 10 hours ago

  The Energy Minister discusses the role of renewable energy in the overall energy mix strategy of the Government and highlights the economic opportunities that renewable energy brings to the UK. He confirms renewable energy as a key priority for the UK. In March I visited one of the country’s new generation of green buildings. Hampton Hill [...] [more]



• Earth may be heating quicker

  Posted 3 days ago

  Global warming is happening faster than predicted and the world could be as much as seven degrees hotter by the end of the century, a UN scientist says. New Australian research showed current policies did not go far enough to manage the risks posed by climate change, according to Dr Roger Jones, a climate risk analyst [...] [more]



• Global warming deal in 2009 - UN

  Posted 3 days ago

  The world can reach a significant new climate change pact by the end of 2009 if current talks keep up their momentum, the head of the United Nations climate panel said on Sunday. The United Nations began negotiations on a sweeping new pact in March after governments agreed last year to work out a treaty to [...] [more]



• Political change on the horizon for solar panels

  Posted 8 days ago

  Germany has 200 times more solar power installed than the UK - and this is not because Germany gets any more sun. You may have seen the ads - enough to make any football fan’s blood boil: “Germany 200, England 1″. No, this was not a report from the World Cup qualifiers, it was a straightforward [...] [more]



• UK rejects solar panels feed-in tariffs

  Posted 9 days ago

  Labour rebels have failed in a bid to force the government to introduce a scheme within a year to boost Britain’s take-up of renewable energy. The Energy Bill amendment would have made it more cost-effective for people generating their own renewable energy using solar panels and wind turbines. The “feed-in” tariffs would have set long-term fixed prices [...] [more]



• 20-35% energy price rises predicted for summer 2008

  Posted 10 days ago

  Sadly gas and electricity price hikes of 20-35% are predicted for Summer/Autumn. If so, grabbing a price capped tariff now should save you cash; though the cheapest capped tariffs cost 10%ish more than the current cheapest uncapped tariffs. For those with finances on the brink, hedge towards capping as it provides surety. [...] [more]



• The basics for home energy efficiency

  Posted 12 days ago

  Now that spring has sprung, it’s time to start preparing for winter. This isn’t as odd as it sounds: if you want your home to be toasty come November, and to reduce your carbon footprint, the time for action is now. Carbon emissions from our homes make up 27 per cent of the UK total. According [...] [more]



• Taking energy saving into your own hands

  Posted 2 weeks ago

  Radical measures are needed to reduce the carbon emissions of our existing housing stock, says a new report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Without them, we will not meet the 80 per cent reduction in emissions that campaigners say is vital by a massive shortfall. Current Government policies will only reduce emissions by 22 [...] [more]



• UK energy continues to go up and up and up

  Posted 2 weeks ago

  For a while it seemed that the customer had the best of all worlds. The monopolies of British Gas and the national electricity board were smashed, so if you didn’t like how much you were forking out for your domestic fuel, then all you had to do was switch. But now, thanks to the continuing [...] [more]



• UK’s disappointing solar panels take up

  Posted 2 weeks ago

  The UK’s renewable energy performance is a “national disgrace”, environmental campaigners claim today. Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and Enoughsenough.org say the UK is flagging behind Germany in terms of solar panels. They argue that Germany has 200 times more solar power and more than ten times more solar panels installed than the UK. The three groups have [...] [more]



• The joys of solar panels

  Posted 3 weeks ago

  It was with some trepidation that I went into the cellar this week to take some meter readings in order to find out how the solar panels we had fitted on our house exactly a year ago have been performing. Was the hefty sum of £8,500 we forked out last year a good investment or [...] [more]



• The facts about solar panels in the UK

  Posted 3 weeks ago

  Over the past year, fewer than 300 houses in Britain have installed solar power cells, against 130,000 in Germany. And you can’t blame our weather - Finland and Denmark generate far more electricity from the sun than the UK. Critics blame a lack of government support and low start-up grants. But, with electricity prices soaring, [...] [more]