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The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson today launched London’s first Boiler Cashback Scheme, which will offer £400 to help home owners and landlords replace their old boilers with new high energy efficient models.
TEAM’s RHI Industry Expert Justine Grant explains why she believes the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme is crucial to the UK’s long-term decarbonisation efforts.
Now Britain’s hydro energy industry will ‘all but disappear’ by the end of the decade, says Mark Mathieson, Chief Executive Officer of Perth-based Green Highland Renewables.
The chief of the UK’s Electricity Storage Network (ESN) has this week called on the Government to clearly define the storage sector insisting the technologies are proven and the demand is evident.
One of the North East’s leading solar PV specialists – Saving Energy Renewables North East – has been awarded the tender to install a 224kw commercial solar system by Arch, The Northumberland Development Company.
The demand for renewable electricity in Europe, documented with Guarantees of Origin (GO), continued to grow in 2015. The growth is up more than 8% from 2014 and surpassed 340 TWh.
The number of Scottish businesses generating their own locally-generated renewable energy doubled in 2015, according to analysis of Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) deployment data by Raggnar, the renewable energy provider.
The NHS is in a state of dismay. Junior doctors have gone on strike in a dispute with health secretary Jeremy Hunt over their contract. Members of the Conservative Party are hoping to remove ring-fenced funding dedicated to the NHS. And patients are being abandoned in hospital waiting rooms for hours before being seen.
After facing the “wettest December” on record, many people have been left feeling chilly in their homes. As well as the cold and cruel winter persisting, looking very much like it’s not going to turn in to any tropical paradise any time soon, most of us have been left bankrupt after the traditionally expensive festive period. With expenses lurking in the background, the last thing anyone wants to do is pay an expensive heating bill. Why not cut your costs in the long run by considering a new heating system? I know exactly what you’re thinking. With these bills seeming almost unaffordable, it might seem crazy of me to suggest that you just chip in and upgrade your boiler. However, there are economic initiatives that you could be eligible for, plus the Scottish Government used to offer funding every year through a scheme, however due to budget cuts the HEEPs cashback scheme has not been stopped. With an apparent continuing economic crisis, now is the perfect time to upgrade your boiler, thus saving on your bills in the long run and having that left over money to spend on anything your heart so desires.
Renewables generated very nearly as much electricity as nuclear sources during 2015, prompting the continued fall in power supply from coal-fired power stations, according to the latest analysis by industry specialists EnAppSys.
Official figures have shown Scotland’s renewables industry is now the country’s principal source of electricity.
Leading renewable energy firm BayWa r.e. has sold the Aston Clinton solar park in England to CEE, an associated company from Hamburg. BayWa r.e. will take over the technical operations management of the 24MW park.
The EU-wide binding 2030 renewables target will not be delivered unless it is backed-up by an monitoring and enforcement mechanism that acts as a guarantor for the agreement, according to the House of Lords EU Committee which today published its report on EU energy governance.
The Government appears to have reacted to the huge wave of national support for the renewable energy industry and backed down from proposals to implement massive cuts to the Feed-in Tariff.
The Government has provided some Christmas cheer to the renewable energy industry after confirming cuts to the Feed-in Tariff will be less than first feared.
Energy regulator Ofgem has found that generators Adret and Berangere provided inaccurate information when applying to prequalify their diesel-fuelled generating units for the first Capacity Auction in 2014.
The RealValue consortium, led by Glen Dimplex and consisting of 13 Pan-European companies, revealed details on how the RealValue research and innovation project, consisting of 1,250 homes in Ireland, Germany and Latvia, has the potential to revolutionise how consumers use and store energy via their homes.
Treasury chiefs have unveiled proposals to increase the rate of VAT on solar and wind installations to fall in line with European law.
Representatives from local government on both sides of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary have signed an agreement to work together to promote, explore and enable the strategic and sustainable development of the region’s vast offshore renewable energy resources.
Scottish businesses and community energy projects have adopted biomass and other forms of renewable heat at a faster rate than anywhere else in the UK, according to new analysis of Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) adoption statistics by Raggnar, the renewable energy provider.
Hundreds of Governments, businesses and cities are making strong commitments to accelerate the ongoing energy transition at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris today.
Abundance, the ethical investment platform, has seen a record pace of new investment during the COP21 climate talks in Paris. As world leaders debate the speed of our transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, £2.3 million has been invested directly by the British public in their latest UK based wind, biomass and solar projects; demonstrating a growing appetite for clean energy.
Bristol’s achievements increasing its renewable energy supply have been recognised by a high-level international panel organised by the European Commission and featuring a Member of the European Parliament at the UN’s COP21 global climate talks in Paris.
More than 80 per cent of the world’s energy supply comes from coal, oil and gas. There is a general consensus that CO2 emissions place a strain on our climate, yet our inability to set a proper price on these emissions means that it is still far too cheap to pollute. The costs of our inaction are already all too clear. At current emissions rates, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change expects that global temperatures will rise by two degrees compared to pre-industrial levels, even before 2040.