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Another encouraging year-end announcement regarding renewable energy, this time in Germany. As PV Magazine reports, the German Solar Industry Association has said that the nation's solar power producers have produced 60% more electricity in 2011 than they did in 2010—in the past year producing 18 billion kWh. http://www.treehugger.com/renewable-energy/german-solar-output-increases-60-percent-2011.html
Investment by companies into renewable energy projects in the UK has risen sharply this year but is still well down on 2009 levels. The Government said £2.5bn of new, privately funded projects had been announced since April. That marks an improvement on the £2.1bn measured in the whole of 2010 by research group Pew Environment. The projects will create nearly 12,000 jobs across the country. Companies held off investing in new projects in 2010 because of uncertainty around the policies of the new Government. However...
Companies have announced plans to invest almost 2.5 billion pounds in renewable energy projects in the UK this year, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) said on Thursday. The plans could potentially create almost 12,000 jobs, DECC said, and compare with estimates from various consultants of around 2.1 billion pounds for the previous year. "Renewable energy is not just helping us increase our energy security and reduce our emissions. It is supporting jobs and growth across the country," Energy Secretary...
If all the UK's discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times, according to the researchers behind a new scientific study. The study, by scientists at Imperial College London, demonstrates that industrial quantities of waste paper could be turned into high grade biofuel, to power motor vehicles, by fermenting the paper using microorganisms. The researchers hope that biofuels made from waste...
If all the UK’s discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times, according to the researchers behind a new scientific study. The study, by scientists at Imperial College London, demonstrates that industrial quantities of waste paper could be turned into high grade biofuel, to power motor vehicles, by fermenting the paper using microorganisms. The researchers hope that biofuels made from waste...
Ethical Ocean delves into the serious issue of Santa's carbon footprint. Seen by millions as a jolly old soul, this bearer of gifts and muncher of cookies also has a dark side -- a dark, polluting side that the environmental movement must address. [deep theatrical voice] For centuries we have allowed this to occur every single year but the toll now is too great. Just look at these disturbing calculations: http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/what-is-santas-carbon-footprint-infographic.html
Facebook has hired Google’s former “green energy czar” Bill Weihl, in a move designed to demonstrate the company's commitment to low-carbon computing and renewable energy. Weihl will begin the new post in January 2012, Facebook confirmed. Weihl reportedly told online magazine Fresh Dialogues that he plans to “advance sustainability” at Facebook. While his job title and responsibilities at have not been decided, the focus will be on sustainability, clean energy and energy efficiency, he said. The news comes just...
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The government's flagship programme to transform the energy efficiency of 14m homes in the next decade will fail and only reach only 2-3m households, according to an unprecedented attack from the government's own climate advisers. The warning comes from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), which on Tuesday for the first time published an open letter criticising government policy. It follows soaring energy bills and the news that one in four homes are now in fuel poverty. The "green deal" plan, which will start...
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