Ahead of the release of the details UK Coalition Government’s spending review later this week, green group Friends of the Earth is warning that any cut to feed-in tariffs (FITs) could provoke a legal challenge. Reports in the media today are hinting that cuts to feed-in tariffs of 10% could be on the cards as part of […]
Power network operator in the North East and Yorkshire, CE Electric UK, has announced plans for a £54 million smart grid project to test the impact of low-carbon technologies like electric cars and solar panels on the electricity network. The company will lead the project, in collaboration with British Gas (a subsidiary of Centrica), Durham University and EA Technology, if it can […]
UK Transport Minister Norman Baker today announced the 14 organisations that will share £15 million to support the purchase of new ‘green’ buses. Under the second round of the Green Bus Fund, over 170 new hybrid and electric buses will be bought by transport companies up and down the country. The largest grants went to Transport […]
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 […]
