Posted in Energy News, European Energy, energy provider, green energy, tagged Energy News, green energy, Infra Red on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Are You Losing Energy??
Worried about your gas, electric and water bills and whether you’re wasting energy in your home?
A new program from the city of Fresno’s Planning and Development Department can help. It’s a new thing called the energy survey programme where basically they scan all areas of your house with an infra red device [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Energy News, Hydro Power, Scotland Renewable Energy, Scottish Gas, UK energy, Welsh Electricity, Welsh Energy, Welsh Gas, Welsh Renewable Energy, green energy, renewable energy, scottish energy, scottish-power, tagged scotland, scottish electricity, wales electricity, Welsh Energy, welsh energy supply on October 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Green Electricity, Green Electricity Providers, UK energy, cheap electricity, energy provider, green energy, tagged energy-twitter, green energy, green-energy-twitter, twitter, uk-green-energy on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Micro blogging’ website Twitter has exploded in popularity over the past year. The energy sector is well represented, principally with green thinkers all sharing ideas and opinions. It seems however, that many major energy companies are still trying to grasp how to deal with this phenomenon – only a few are represented.
We thought that it [...]
Posted in Green Electricity, Hydro Power, cheap electricity, energy provider, green energy, tagged Green Electricity, green energy, how-hyrdo-works, hydro, Hydro Power, hydroelectric, hydropower, scottish-hydro-electric on June 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
There are some great sources of learning on the internet for those of us who wish to fully understand how green energy technologies actually work. We thought that it would be useful to focus on different technology in the coming weeks.
Today – hydro power and how this method generates electricity.
The HowStuffWorks [...]
Posted in European Energy, Green Electricity, green energy, renewable energy, tagged clean electricity, clean energy, European Energy, green energy on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
EUGENE’s general assembly has recently voted for the dismantling of its recognition after 5 brilliant years together. The Board and members have decided to still promote green electricity and energy in Europe but have come to the decision that they will cease to exist as EUGENE’s.
The website (www.clean-e.org) will still be showing CLEAN-E results from [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Green Electricity, cheap electricity, green energy, renewable energy, tagged clean energy, green energy, green-energy-investment, sustainable-energy, UN on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Green Electricity, UK energy, cheap electricity, energy provider, green energy, tagged google, google-powermeter, smart-metering, smart-meters, uk-smart-meter, uk-smart-meters on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Green Electricity, UK energy, cheap electricity, green energy, tagged Green Electricity, green-cars, green-policy, green-transport, hybrid-cars, uk, uk-government, uk-green-policy on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, green energy, renewable energy, tagged green energy, mgreen-agenda, renewable energy on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Green Electricity, Green Electricity Providers, UK energy, energy provider, green energy, tagged Green Electricity, green energy, RenewableEnergy, wind energy, Wind-Farm, wind-turbine on December 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
