The Coalition Government has launched its revised National Policy Statements (NPSs) on energy, which map out a future with over half new generating capacity coming from renewable sources by 2025. But that new renewable capacity will not include the proposed 8.6 GW tidal energy project in the Severn estuary in the south west, which could have met up to […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted a waiver allowing the sale of fuel containing 15% ethanol for new cars and trucks. Legislation allowing up to 10% ethanol or E10 to be sold for all cars and light trucks was first introduced in 1979. Now vehicles from model year 2007 onwards will be able to use […]
Despite government pledges to eradicate fuel poverty in the UK, the latest official figures indicate that the number of households living in fuel poverty rose to 4.5 million in 2008. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)’s own statistics reveal that an extra half a million households joined the ranks of those spending more than 10% of their […]
Wave power developer Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has netted $2.75 million from the US Navy to fund the second stage in the company’s existing wave energy project. OPT has completed the first stage of a four-year $15 million project to test the company’s PowerBuoy technology. The next stage of the Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy (LEAP) programme, […]
General Motos (GM) has issued a statement defending its forthcoming Chevrolet Volt amid rumours that the promised extended-range electric vehicle is just a standard hybrid. Media reports have claimed that the Volt, which has an internal combustion engine as well as an electric drive train, is therefore not a true electric vehicle but a hybrid like […]
UK Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude today released a list of around 200 Government-backed bodies – or ‘quangos’ – that will be axed as a part of cost-cutting measures. A number of high profile green quangos were thought to be at risk including the Carbon Trust – which now appears to have had a repreive. […]
