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Today the Government opens its Energy Red Tape Challenge initiative, encouraging businesses to supply their views on energy legislation. Businesses are being asked to share their views on whether current regulations are creating administrative burdens, and what could be done to implement more effective policy.The initiative covers roughly 300 regulations which relate to all aspect of UK energy, from extraction and generation, to safety, supply and consumption. Energy firm npower have already sought the views of almost...
A new report released by the Technology and Policy Assessment function of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), which addresses key controversies in the energy field, suggests that up to one fifth of global energy could be provided by biomass (plants) without damaging food production. The report reviews more than 90 global studies. A debate has been raging about the role biomass could play in the future energy system: some say it could play a major role in fueling the planet, others argue that...
Business Interest will overrule Environmental Goals says George Osborne. The Chancellor who introduced the green investment bank and the carbon floor price has just sent a clear message during the Autumn Statement 2011 yesterday: “where green goals are in conflict with economic concerns, business interests will win”. Which means energy intensive industries will get their carbon taxes reliefs. Read More: http://www.catalyst-commercial.co.uk/blog/latest-news/tax-relief-for-high-energy-users/
More than 5,000 documents have been leaked online purporting to be the correspondence of climate scientists at the University of East Anglia who were previously accused of ‘massaging’ evidence of man-made climate change. Following on from the original 'climategate' emails of 2009, the new package appears to show systematic suppression of evidence, and even publication of reports that scientists knew to to be based on flawed approaches. And not only do the emails paint a picture of scientists manipulating data...
During today’s Autumn Statement the Chancellor George Osborne is expected to inject hope into the British economy to halt the feared double-dip recession. One of these measures will benefit intensive business energy users with a relief on their carbon taxes which could represent savings of up to 10% on their business electricity bills. If confirmed these carbon taxes rebates will help British companies become more competitively internationally. Intensive business electricity users have complained that right now...
The renewable energy industry has welcomed the government’s scheme to subsidise renewable heat production, which opens today. The world’s first Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) provides payments for heat generated from renewable technologies, including biomass boilers, solar thermal equipment and heat pumps installed since 15 July 2009. ‘This is excellent and very long-awaited news,’ said Gaynor Hartnell, chief executive of the Renewable Energy Association. ‘It’s high time UK started benefiting from a major roll...
Hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash is to be poured into Africa to help it cope with the impact of climate change. The £330million handout will be spent over the next four years on schemes to install solar power plants and encouraging investment in low-carbon transport. One of the main beneficiaries will be South Africa, a country which is prosperous enough to have its own space agency. Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, will unveil the foreign aid package at a United Nations summit on climate...
Irish and United Kingdom ministers have pledged to work together to unlock the potential of ocean power around the coastlines and called on the European Union (EU) to back the technology. Ministers last week called on the EU to give its full backing to the development of massive ocean energy resources available in the UK and Ireland. The governments spoke out jointly as they supported to a Member State Position Paper on Ocean Energy, issued jointly by them and the leaders of Norway, Spain, Portugal, France and...
Britain has some big decisions to make on energy, and environmentalists say the answers that politicians come up with in the next few months will determine whether the country follows through on its promises of strong action against global warming. A series of important questions about investment in renewable energy, efficiency and nuclear generation are up for discussion as the government and energy companies plan how to replace a generation of power plants that are nearing retirement. Britain put itself out...
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