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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Energy Assembly Dismantle

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 [...]

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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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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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