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Some of the biggest names in British business will today join together to reiterate their call for the government to take more concrete action to cut carbon emissions and accelerate the development of low carbon technologies and business models. Household names such as Shell, Tesco, EDF Energy, Lloyds Banking Group, Philips, Unilever and Kingfisher will unite to endorse a new report from the Prince of Wales's UK Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, which concludes the government must now dramatically...
Anyone driving into London on the M4 from today will gain a fresh insight into the power of advertising when they pass a giant billboard illuminated solely by energy generated by wind turbines and solar panels. Document management and printing giant Ricoh will flick the switch on its new 36-metre-square billboard at seven o'clock this morning, unveiling the 96 solar panels and five micro wind turbines that will power the board's lighting. The billboard will be disconnected from the grid to prove the energy used...
An invasion of jellyfish into a cooling water pool at a Scottish nuclear power plant kept its nuclear reactors offline on Wednesday, a phenomenon which may grow more common in future, scientists said. Two reactors at EDF Energy's Torness nuclear power plant on the Scottish east coast remained shut a day after they were manually stopped due to masses of jellyfish obstructing cooling water filters. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=jellyfish-keep-uk-nuclear-plant-shu
Centrica, which owns British Gas, has hinted again that it will raise prices for its gas and electricity customers. In a statement to the stock market, it told investors to expect lower profits for the first half of 2011, partly due to higher wholesale costs. However, the firm said "retail margin recovery" would boost its profits in the second half of the year. Earlier this month Scottish Power said it would increase the cost of gas by 19% and the cost of electricity by 10%. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business...
Britain has announced plans to build at least 8 new nuclear power plants by 2025 as part of its long-term energy policies, according to media reports.However, nuclear power was one of the issues that divided Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition after the May 2010 general elections. The announcement comes three months after a powerful earthquake and its following tsunami triggered a radioactive disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. The government is planning to construct the new...
Britain’s energy regulator, Ofgem Investigating The Big Six utilities suppliers, also known as the Big Six, under the accusation of miss leading marketing information and unfounded energy and gas prices rises. Severe retail reforms have been proposed which could oblige them to auction more than one fifth of the energy they produce. http://www.catalyst-commercial.co.uk/blog/latest-news/ofgem-investigating-the-big-six/
Britain's six largest utilities face tough retail power market reforms next year which could force them to auction off more than one fifth of electricity they produce, energy regulator Ofgem said on Wednesday. The regulator proposed in March to impose power production auctions of up to twenty percent of generation on the Big Six utilities -- Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE.L ), Centrica (CNA.L), Iberdrola's (IBE.MC) Scottish Power, RWE npower (RWEG.DE), EDF Energy (EDF.PA) and E.ON UK (EONGn.DE). But Ofgem...
Market leaders, Marks & Spencer and the Co-op have recently been announced as the greenest British supermarkets. They were awarded this status by ?Ethical Consumer? magazine on the basis of their eco-credentials. In particular the magazine recognised Co-op?s policy on fish sources and Marks & Spencer?s policy on sourcing palm oil. The Co-op has achieved the status of having an average of 98% use of renewable energy sources throughout its 5,500 stores nationwide. http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/20110626/marks...
The results of some fairly high profile smart energy management projects (apparently successful) are due this week, but apparently Google didn’t have the patience to wait. The giant Internet services company has officially “retired” the PowerMeter service due to lack of consumer adoption. That move — coupled with Microsoft’s decision earlier this year to shift gears on its strategy for Hohm — gets me wondering about all the other companies testing cloud-based energy management technologies — including the likes...
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