UK’s Renewable Energy Tariff a money spinner for homeowners
(UK) Making the most of the Renewable Energy Tariff’s – Better Generation, 5 July 2010, “……. how the average household could stand to gain in excess of £2000 through the latest renewable energy tariff schemes.
eed-in tariff (FiT) and the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) are designed to provide a guaranteed annual return, free from income tax, of 8% on investment. Continue reading
Renewable Energy can overcome its hurdles
The Four Hurdles of Renewable Energy. CALFINDER , 2 July 2010, American Electric Power CEO Michael Morris is all too familiar with the challenges of incorporating renewable energy into the existing industrial framework. But he believes that the largest of these hurdles can be overcome with sound planning for the future. Here’s what he has to say Continue reading
Google supports more information and action on renewable energy
Google’s Renewable Energy Push – Venture Capital Dispatch – WSJ. By Yuliya Chernova , 1 July 2010, Dan Reicher, director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google Inc., spoke at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum Wall Street on Wednesday in support of a new government agency that would help clean technology companies bridge the “valley of death,” a gap in financing for the first full-scale demonstration….
We’ve made some progress, but not nearly the progress we need. We need to have real changes in policy and finance. We’ve got to be working in an integrated way at the state level, in Washington. There are energy efficiency standards, more transmission development that can be handled at the state level. We think there’s real power in information, getting information to people so that they can make changes. We support the [Electricity Consumers] Right To Know Act [that will help consumers access their electricity use information.] The challenge is to hit all three points–accelerate progress of technology, policy and radically increase the amount of capital necessary. There’s no single answer….
We have a fairly unpredictable and unreliable system of federal incentives for renewable energy that has an impact on investments…….
USA lags behind Europe in forward looking energy policy
Perhaps no single horizon better illustrates Europe’s technological advances and capacity for innovation, combined with political will and future-thinking, than its leadership in pushing the world toward a new era of renewable energy, conservation, and low greenhouse gas economies.
Obama Needs an Energy Policy Like Europe’s: Lessons From the Gulf of Mexico, THE HUFFINGTON POST, June 29, 2010 “………with millions of gallons of toxic black oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the United States could learn plenty from Europe about energy policy.
By forging ahead with widespread implementation of innovative conservation practices, renewable energy technologies and fuel efficient transportation, Europe has managed to reduce its ‘ecological footprint’ to half that of the United States for the same standard of living. Continue reading
UK renewable energy feed in tariff a boon for rural estates
Rural estates and farms could use the new renewable energy feed-in tariff scheme to increase their annual income by tens of thousands of pounds each year
UK – Renewable energy feed-in tariffs set to transform rural estate incomes, according to Knight Fr Meat Trade news Daily, 50 June 2010, Key points: Continue reading
800 protests world-wide call for renewable energy, no oil drilling
Hand In Hand, Protesters Oppose Offshore Oil Drilling | unEARTHED, 28 June 2010, “………..Their message is clear: No more Gulf oil spill disasters………movement has spread far and wide as people witness daily the threat that oil drilling presents to America’s coastal economies and marine habitat. On Saturday, protestors around the world gathered at one of the more than 800 events held to clasp hands, drawing both a metaphorical and actual line in the sand against the threat of offshore drilling.
The hope is that the gesture will help convince our government that we’re serious about the need to preserve some of America’s most valuable assets—our coastal areas—by halting the expansion of offshore drilling and adopting policies that encourage the development of clean and renewable sources of energy.
Hand In Hand, Protesters Oppose Offshore Oil Drilling | unEARTHED, the Earthjustice blog
Decentralised renewable energy – the doorway to Africa’s prosperity
decentralised energy production through solar systems and wind farms could bring power to many remote regions, thus allowing development, creating jobs and benefitting health. Kappiah: “Solar power is reliable and can be installed easily and without the need to connect to the national electricity grid.”
Harvesting The Sun And Wind “Key For African Development” Voxy.co.nz, 28 June 2010, “The solar radiation Africa receives could make this continent the Saudi-Arabia of the future”. With this bold statement, Hafsat Abiola, daughter of Nigeria’s late President Elect Moshood Abiola, summarized the results of “Power Kick for Africa”, a two-day strategy workshop on renewable energy policies. Continue reading
Nuclear company AREVA venturing into renewables
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Areva’s strength is nuclear power–it is the world’s biggest nuclear company–but it is venturing into other carbon-free
generation technologies.
Solar Thermal or Solar Photovoltaic? Areva Says ‘Both!’ – Forbes.com, 26 June 2010, Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of the French nuclear giant Areva, hinted last week during a meeting in Forbes offices that Areva is developing a hybrid solar power plant concept that combines a solar thermal system with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. Continue reading
Vietnam’s nuclear plans unlikely to succeed
A recent World Bank study found Vietnam could produce more than 500 gigawatts of electricity from land-based and off-shore wind farms, 10 times the country’s expected national demand in 2020.
Vietnam’s unnecessary nuclear ‘renaissance’ Greenpeace International, by jmckeati – June 23, 2010 The news just in from Vietnam is that Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the construction of eight new nuclear power plants in the country. Each plant will feature ‘at least’ four reactors and all will be operational by 2030.
So, that’s ‘at least’ 32 reactors built within the next 20 years. Good luck with that, Mr Dung, because you’re really going to need it. Continue reading
Renewable energy future for South East Asia
Greenpeace urge SE Asian to invest in renewable energy, WikiPeers.com 23 June 2010, “……Greenpeace International senior energy expert Sven Teske explained in his report, Energy (R)evolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook, that if the Southeast Asian nations will engage in producing renewable energy from the sources he mentioned, it would bring almost 100 percent boost in their economy by 2050 as it would certainly generate 700,000 jobs and 30 percent more jobs up until by 2020. Continue reading
Renewable energy – the numbers add up
The global financial crisis is partly to blame, but political will would seem to be the resource in shortest supply. BP’s Gulf of Mexico disaster may have changed that.
Do renewable energy by the numbers, and it all adds up, Sydney Morning Herald, MIKE SANDIFORD June 24, 2010 “……..Each year, we are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by 1 per cent. The effect of this increase is to trap a tiny extra bit of the incoming solar energy, so we are heating not only the atmosphere, but also the oceans and land, and at a phenomenal rate.The scary thing is we have only just begun. Continue reading
China pushing ahead of USA on renewable energy
A copy of the report was obtained by Secrecy News. See “China and the United States — A Comparison of Green Energy Programs and Policies,” June 14, 2010.
China’s Green Energy Programs, and More from CRS, Secrecy News, June 23rd, 2010 by Steven Aftergood One thing that is even more impressive than China’s nuclear history is its emerging green energy future. “China has set ambitious targets for developing its… renewable energy resources with a major push of laws, policies and incentives in the last few years,” according to a new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service. Continue reading
USA’s new coalition for really clean, renewable eneergy
Research shows Australia’s potential for all-renewable energy sources
Solar, wind power may meet 2020 energy use, Sydney Morning Herald, TOM ARUP, June 22, 2010 A MASSIVE introduction of solar-thermal power plants and wind farms would allow Australia to generate all its energy needs from renewable technologies by 2020, research shows. Continue reading
Europe’s new energy sources – wind power now rivalling gas
urope’s New Wind Power Rivals Gas – Green Blog – NYTimes.com
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