Category Archives: Other Renewables
Will Osborne destroy the UK’s energy policy in his quest for power?
Monday’s report by the Energy and Climate Change Committee was just about as damning as it could be. However, most fascinating is the picture it paints of the ongoing conflict between DECC and the Treasury. With a marvelous sense of … Continue reading
Scottish renewable argument doesn’t address independence
Recent comments by Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing that the UK needs Scottish renewable energy in order to meet its climate and renewable energy targets may be true, but fail to address how they would contribute if Scotland became independent. … Continue reading
Why electric cars are no cleaner than biofuels
Will 2012 finally be the year that electric cars take off in the UK? Maybe, maybe not. A better question might be, why do we need electric cars anyway? This story from The Economist provides a good history lesson on … Continue reading
Nuclear blackmail arguement also applies to wind
Who’d have thought that the biggest source of disagreement between environmentalists would be nuclear power? The issue came back into the spotlight last week when four environmental campaigners (Jonathan Porritt, Tom Burke, Charles Secrett and Tony Juniper ) wrote a … Continue reading
Lego wind turbines getting bigger
Kirkbi A/S, the family firm which owns the major stake in toy comapny Lego has confirmed it is 3bn Danish krona ($534m) to acquire almost a third of Dong Energy’s 277MW Borkum Riffgrund 1 wind farm, which is expected to … Continue reading
