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UrbanWind seals £30 investment deal
Paul McCullagh, chief executive of UrbanWind
UrbanWind has completed a £30m funding deal to kick-start onshore wind projects across the UK.
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Wind sector blasts Conservative manifesto
The Conservative party’s election pledge to halt the development on new onshore wind farms has been branded ‘idiotic’ and ‘illogical’ by members of the UK wind sector.
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No large scale solar for 2015/16
The Contracts for Difference (CfD) register has been released by the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC), confirming that neither of the two solar projects that won CfD contracts for the next financial year will go ahead.
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Report calls for reform of small wind sector
According to the report, the current Feed-in Tariff penalises small-scale wind which has seen deployment decline by 77 per cent.
Opinion
Q&A – Paul McCullagh, UrbanWind
Paul McCullagh, chief executive of UrbanWind
REI: What have you got planned for 2015?
PM: 2015 is set to be a watershed year for us, with an unprecedented level of development projects confirmed or in the pipeline. We have already this year commenced work on three fully funded turbines, and have a major series of funded projects planned for throughout the year. The first quarter of 2015 alone is already looking to be our busiest and most exciting quarter to date.
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UrbanWind secures £3m investment deal
UrbanWind has secured £3m investment for three major UK wind turbine projects.
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Record-breaking January for wind energy
New official figures from National Grid for January show that wind energy broke new records for weekly, monthly and half-hourly generation.
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Qualitick merges with ASC Renewables
Chester-based Qualitick has merged with ASC Renewables.
Opinion
2014 and 2015 at the BRE National Solar Centre
Steve Pester, BRE, looks ahead to an action-packed year for the organisation in 2015
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Wind power increases 15 percent in 2014
New statistics from the National Grid show that record amounts of electricity were generated by wind power in 2014.
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Headaches for renewables funds as Osborne cuts VCT tax breaks
Renewable energy companies will no longer be able to give investors relief under venture capital scheme rules, George Osborne announced in last week’s Autumn Statement.
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Industry reacts to Autumn Statement
Industry leaders have criticised George Osborne for failing to put renewable energy on the agenda in his Autumn Statement.
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Renewables now Scotland’s chief source of power
Renewable energy has become Scotland’s main source of power, new independent figures published by DECC have revealed.
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Banks celebrate success with star pupils
Book-loving primary school pupils in Hawick celebrated their Achievement Award Assembly in style – with a little help from Banks Renewables.
Over 30 children at Trinity Primary School, aged between 3 and 12, took part in the Commonwealth Reading Awards, an initiative aimed at encouraging children to read more books at school and home.
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Wind industry creates thousands of UK jobs
The number of people working in the medium and large-scale sectors of the British onshore wind industry, and offshore wind, has risen by 8 percent in just over twelve months to more than 15,400 direct, full-time jobs, according to the trade association RenewableUK.
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Ecotricity launch wind campaign
Ecotricity has launched a multi-media campaign to celebrate wind power in the UK.
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Green Party talks renewable policy with industry leaders
Members of the UK’s renewables industry joined with key Green Party politicians at The Cavendish Hotel, Central London, on Wednesday 15 October to discuss the future of the UK’s energy policies.
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Vergnet hosts first open day
L-R Vergnet’s Diana Popa with Bertie Sainsbury-Plaice and farmer Ian Sharman
Vergnet has hosted its first ever open day in the UK on a Nottinghamshire diary farm.
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Industry slams CfD regime
The STA and REA have spoken out against the government’s finalised budgets for Contracts for Difference (CfD).
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Ecovision appoints manager from within
Ecovision Renewables has appointed its sales manager Paul Dean as its general manager and sales director.
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Rockefeller’s green investment decision is ‘great for everyone’
RES UK managing director Gordon MacDougall has called on the UK’s politicians to take note of the Rockefeller family’s decision to divest itself of fossil fuel assets.
Opinion
The generation game
Steve Pester, BRE, lifts the lid on the NSC’s latest exciting research collaboration with the UK MET Office
Opinion
Lessons learned on-site
By Steve Pester, BRE
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Flogas invests in renewables
Flogas Britain has launched Flogas Renewables following the acquisition of UFW