UK’s new green energy tariff – good in parts
A green tariff people can believe in, guardian.co.uk, Julie Davenport, 8 June 2010, The UK’s Green Energy Supply Certification Scheme will increase confidence for green electricity consumers, but energy companies outside the scheme will still be allowed to greenwash… Continue reading
Scotland and Wales go for renewables, not nuclear energy
Who wants nuclear power? Not Wales, or Scotland….they want renewables environmentalresearchweb, 13 June 2010, The Welsh Assembly Government’s new Energy Policy Statement ‘A Low Carbon Revolution’, sets out an approach to accelerating the transition to a low carbon energy economy in Wales, focusing on efficiency measures and the use of indigenous renewable forms of energy such as marine, wind, solar and biomass. It claims that by 2025 around 40% of electricity in Wales could come from marine sources and a third from wind……. Continue reading
100 % renewable energy to power UK data centre
U.K. data center commits to 100 percent renewable energy sources, ZDNet, By Heather Clancy | June 9, 2010,
The operator of a newly opened 750,000 square foot data center in Wales has contracted with a renewable energy supplier to ensure that all of the energy that powers the new facility is generated from renewable energy sources.The operator, Next Generation Data Ltd., has contracted with SmartestEnergy, which aggregates renewable energy on behalf of its customers, which include the likes of Marks & Spencer, Toyota, Hitachi and Eurostar. SmartestEnergy is using a wide variety of generation sources including biogas, landfill gas, wind and hydropower.
U.K. data center commits to 100 percent renewable energy sources | ZDNet
France’s nuclear firm got secret subsidy from British govt
They know full well that the economics of nuclear don’t stack up and that new reactors will only ever happen if the British taxpayer is forced yet again to carry the atomic can.”.
EDF ran secret lobbying campaign to reduce nuclear waste disposal levy• Reactors builder won big concessions on key issues• Rethink on costs is in effect a subsidy, says Greenpeace Tim Webb * guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 June 2010
The nuclear industry is being offered what campaigners claim is a taxpayer subsidy on the disposal costs of waste from new reactors following a secret lobbying campaign, the Guardian has learned. Continue reading
Increased investment in UK renewable energy creating jobs
Uncertain future for industry related to nuclear power
Loan to Sheffield Forgemasters being reviewed – minister LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) – A loan granted by Britain’s last government to a steelworks company to help it build a manufacturing facility for the nuclear industry is under review, the new business minister said on Thursday. Continue reading
Britain faces ever-increasing debt with nuclear wastes
Chris Huhne warns of £4bn black hole in nuclear power budget, guardian.co.uk, Patrick Wintour, 1 June 2010 Energy secretary blames predecessors for avoiding tough decisions in ‘classic example of short-termism’ Chris Huhne, the new energy secretary, said: ‘What we are effectively paying for here is decades of cheap nuclear electricity.’
Britain is facing a £4bn black hole in unavoidable nuclear decommissioning and waste costs, Chris Huhne, the energy and climate change secretary disclosed tonight. Continue reading
Britain’s clean energy cut, as nuclear costs spiral out of control
will see it reduce spending on support for genuinely clean energy projects.
Nuclear costs spiral as clean energy budgets face axe, Left Foot Forward, 2 June 2010, Once again, evidence is mounting that the cost to Britain of nuclear power is spiralling. The new energy secretary, Chris Huhne, has briefed The Guardian this morning that he has inherited a “£4 billion black hole in unavoidable nuclear decommissioning and waste costs”. Continue reading
Massive taxpayer payouts to UK nuclear executives
all the directors listed have since moved into other jobs in the nuclear industry.
Nuclear costs spiral as clean energy budgets face axe, Left Foot Forward, 2 June 2010, “…..there’s a need for an independent and open audit of NDA spending to examine the room for greater cuts there when you look at these examples of the organisation’s largesse:
* The ex-managing director of Sellafield, Barry Snelson, who ran the site on behalf of the NDA, was recently given a £2,000,000 golden adieu for “loss of office.”
* His colleague David Bonser, head of the thermal oxide reprocessing plant (THORP), was given a £1m pay off at the same time. He was in charge of the site, during the 2007 THORP leak that went unnoticed Continue reading
Small scale renewable energy to benefit from bank pledge
Community groups and smaller developers eager to utilise the Government’s new feed–in tariffs regime would benefit from the fund
Co-op bank pledges £200m to UK renewables, guardian.co.uk, by Zara Maung 1 June 2010, Extra funding for renewable energy will be welcomed as project financing gets tougher The Co-operative Bank increased its support for renewable energy today, by pledging to lend an additional £200 million to the sector in 2010.
The bank also committed to expanding its UK specialist renewables team in Manchester and creating Scotland–based teams at its corporate banking centres in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The investment follows a £400m renewable energy fund set up by the Co-op in 2007, Continue reading
Big future for renewable energy in Scotland
Britain’s somewhat cryptic disclosure of size of nuclear stockpile
only in the somewhat cryptic way: “the overall stockpile…will not exceed 225 warheads
Britain Discloses Size of Nuclear Stockpile: Who’s Next? » FAS Strategic Security Blog, By Hans M. Kristensen, 26 May 2010, The new British government today followed the French and U.S. examples by disclosing its total military stockpile of nuclear weapons. Continue reading
UK not getting new nuclear reactors any time soon
U.K. Energy Policy In A Muddle – WSJ, By Selina Williams, 24 May 2010, “……….Not all the policies required for the construction of new nuclear power plants–a key source of low-carbon electricity–are finalized and it’s unlikely that any will be built until after 2020, the report adds. Decomissioning of old nuclear power plants and what will be done with the waste have yet to be completely pinned down. And the new coalition government’s decision to do away with the Infrastructure Planning Commission, which the previous government set up to streamline and speed up planning decisions for new nuclear, could create more delays to investment…….U.K. Energy Policy In A Muddle – The Source – WSJ
UK govt closes scheme to fund small scale reneweble energy
Cameron axes renewable energy grant, FT.com, May 24, 2010 by Jim Pickard David Cameron, in his original incarnation as Tory leader, was an advocate of the green agenda; cycling everywhere, visiting the Arctic (albeit by plane) and fixing a wind turbine to the roof of his west London home. (No matter that he was forced to take it down due to complex planning issues).Yet the new prime minister has just axed a major scheme (the “Low Carbon Buildings Programme”) that gave grants for households and companies to put solar panels or wind turbines on their premises. So far it has helped 20,000……………The Renewable Energy Association says:”The announcement has increased the sense of uncertainty faced by the UK’s infant renewable heat industry.” Cameron axes renewable energy grant | Westminster Blog | FT.com
UK tax-payer might have to foot the bill for nuclear industry
…….over the years, nuclear has had the lion’s share of R&D and public investment in new energy technology, and we are still spending about half our energy R&D funding on nuclear fission and fusion. By comparisons, renewables, as a group, have been starved of funding
(UK) The cost of nuclear – environmentalresearchweb, 24 May 2010, “………The capital cost is high, and the ultimate cost, if something goes seriously wrong, could be very large.The UK’s nuclear liability law is based on the Paris and Brussels Convention on Nuclear Third Party Liability, which has been in operation since the 1960s. Continue reading
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