Two wind farms which can power over 90,000 homes have been approved by the Scottish Government. The 177 MW Dorenell wind farm on the Glenfiddich estate, near Dufftown in Moray, will power 84,000 homes – double the number of homes in Moray. The project will see a capital investment of over £250 million, generating at … Read more
A court victory allowing a judicial review into cuts to solar subsidies will be appealed by the Government today (January 4). The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is set to appeal last month’s ruling, which concluded the Government’s plans to rush through cuts to Feed-In Tariff (FIT) payments were ‘legally flawed’. At the … Read more
The Scottish renewable energy generation in 2011 is expected to have reached record levels. New figures show Scotland’s renewable energy output for the first three quarters of 2011 has already delivered 94% of the previous year’s total, and 83% of the previous record year. The statistics also demonstrate that there is enough generation capacity in … Read more
The British Government has awarded 46 new licences to explore for hydrocarbons in the North Sea. The awards were made as part of the 26th offshore oil and gas licensing round, which was originally announced in October 2010. This licensing round awarded 144 licences but held back a number of blocks from award due to … Read more
Ireland has a worldwide reputation as a successful location for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Almost 1,000 multinational corporations, in sectors including Life Sciences, ICT, Engineering and Financial Services, have chosen Ireland as their strategic European location. Ireland is now also emerging as a significant location for investors in the Cleantech industry, largely due to natural … Read more
Denmark’s environment and energy ministers vowed recently to make sustainability and resource efficiency priorities during the country’s upcoming EU presidency, despite pressure across Europe to prioritise short-term crisis-fighting measures. Environment Minister Ida Auken called for making energy efficiency legally binding, dismissing concerns that weak economies and the eurozone debt crisis would trump the environment in … Read more
A tiny village in a wind-swept corner of eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a revolution. Yet environmentalists, experts and politicians from across the world have flocked to Feldheim, home to just 145 people, in the past year to learn how it is already putting into practice Germany’s vision of a future powered entirely … Read more
A new report looking at the “reasons and justifications” of government cuts to Feed-in Tariffs (FITs) has been welcomed by the solar industry, after it finds justification for subsidies to continue. Related articles Published today (December 22) the ‘Solar Power FITs’ report by Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECCC) and Environmental Audit Committees (EAC) examines … Read more
Driven by surging consumption in Asia and the United States, global use of natural gas rebounded 7.4 percent from its 2009 slump to hit a record 111.9 trillion cubic feet in 2010, according to a new Vital Signs Online report from the Worldwatch Institute. This increase puts natural gas’s share of total energy consumption at … Read more
GT Energy, the leading developer of deep geothermal energy projects in the UK and Ireland, has appointed former Airtricity chief executive, Paul Dowling, to its board of directors. Paul Dowling has over 20 years of management and business development experience in the renewable energy sector. He led the renewable energy business for SSE as chief … Read more