Welsh Government Invests £34m to cut carbon emissions

In line with the Scottish Goverment’s recent announcement that it was investing in a Scottish and Southern Energy and University of Strathclyde project Centre for Renewable Energy Excellence (CEERE) in Glasgow – the Welsh Government has come out and backed a similar scheme. The Low Carbon Research Institute (LCRI). This is a Welsh university research [...]

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UN Report Highlights Rising Green Energy Investment

 
Despite the continuing economic downturn, global investment in green energy has increased significantly over the past year and overtaken fossil fuel investment. This rather surpirsing fact comes from the ‘Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009′ report which was prepared for the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative by global information provider New [...]

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Smart Metering in all UK homes by 2020

The UK government announced yesterday that they have passed the necessary legislation for the use of ’smart meters’ in every UK home by 2020. What is so revolutionary about this move is that it will allow consumers to take control of their own energy usage, and put an end to estimated bills.
This has been a [...]

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Green Policies Central to Upcoming UK Budget

Green Policies in UK Budget
In an echo of President Obama’s initiatives of a few months ago, the upcoming April 22nd UK budget, to be delivered by Chancellor Alistair Darling, is set to incorporate green initiatives as a central axis of a program to boost the UK economy.
According to an interview in The Independent, the government [...]

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Renewable Energy Targets

Renewable Energy
By 2050 – the government (UK & Europe) has set targets to reduce Co2 emissions by 60%, – is it realistic? Well it won’t be by the lack of trying, when the targets were first introduced in 2000 it looked like we would struggle as we set targets of 10% of renewable energy to [...]

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Cheap Green Electricity

Cheap Green Electricity
Or is it?
With the world now offering us green cheap electricity we are moving onto a new error in our society, but how is it you see all the signs, adverts and TV commercials offering us cheap green electricity that we can never find cheap energy- anywhere, these big corporations keep pushing up [...]

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UK Wind Turbines

The gails and winds that sweep across the United Kingdom every day can be harnessed by wind turbines to provide huge amounts of electricity. Wind turbines situated in suitable area’s already provide a small, but growing percentage of the UK’s energy, and are used successfully [...]

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£10m Scottish wave power prize up for grabs

Clean Energy Prize Offered by Scottish Goverment
The Scottish Government has announced an interesting energy competition. The Saltire Prize (‘drawing inspiration from the great innovation prizes of the 20th century’) is offering a £10m prize to the first group of wave power boffins who can demonstrate a commercially viable wave or tidal energy system in Scottish [...]

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Clean Energy Journey to Greece

Clean Energy Journey to Greece
Following on from the Plymouth to Dakar Banger Challenge and the Chocolate Powered Biotruck Expedition, the intrepid Fat Finding explorers are this week travelling to Greece using waste oil from any take-aways they encounter on their quest. We look forward to hearing how these energy pioneers fared, perhaps they are providing [...]

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Energy Saving Tips – Cheaper Bills

Save Money & The Planet
In these harsh economic times, cheaper electricity and gas bills would be a great bonus. The good news is that if you can manage the energy output of your home and business effectively, you can easily save on your energy bills and help save the planet at the same time. There’s [...]

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