Britain says it wants to guarantee a price premium for small producers of renewable power, for example from the wind and sun, from 2010.
The government included the proposals in amendments tabled on Wednesday to an energy bill being debated and due to pass into law by December this year.
The plan would support households and communities [...]
Archive for October, 2008
UK Aims To Support Small Renewable Power From 2010
What’s the carbon footprint of your product?
Businesses can from today assess the carbon footprint of their goods and services and play a greater part in fighting climate change, thanks to a new standard launched by BSI British Standards, the Carbon Trust and Defra.
The standard - called PAS 2050 - is a consistent way of counting the greenhouse gas emissions embedded in [...]
Brown Says Downturn Won’t Hit Green Plans
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Tuesday the global economic downturn would not affect a government drive to reduce the country’s carbon emissions. However, an industry executive cast doubt on the ability of the UK’s existing power transmission network to cope with planned increases in wind power output. Brown told a wind energy conference [...]
October 30th, 2008 | Gareth Jones | 0 comments | Continued
Economic and environment benefits to be gained from adopting bioprocesses and biofeedstocks
Biotechnologies can provide sustainable feedstocks for energy and low carbon materials, and energy efficient and low waste processes. Peterborough-based sustainable technologies company, the Centre for Sustainable Engineering (CSEng), has packaged its biology-based expertise to advise industry on how to deploy biotechnologies to reduce energy consumption, minimise waste and improve carbon performance.
Bioprocesses and biofeedstocks and can [...]
Brown To Make Green Jobs A Reality
Thousands of loft insulators and draft-proofers are to be trained by the Government to help ease fuel poverty.
Speaking at an EU summit in Brussels in the wale of the highest UK unemployment figures since 1999 being announced, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said offering retraining programmes would be a key factor in helping people to find [...]
UK based Sci-Tech Systems (Essex) has won the 2008 European Satellite Navigation Competition (formerly the Galileo Masters Competition). Sci-Tech beat nearly 300 other submissions from across Europe to win the title of “Galileo Master”.
The winners Peter Hall, Christine Edwards, David Lewin and Roger Noble, a team of experienced sailing and business enthusiasts from a major sailing centre in East Anglia, received their award from Ann Sta Head of the Galileo Programme Division in the UK’s Department for Transport and one of the UK’s expert [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | John Pickstone | 0 comments | Continued
Green Energy Awards: UK entries needed by 28 October 2008
With the deadline approaching for submission of Expressions of Interest for the next Ashden Awards, we are getting in touch to remind you that we are seeking inspirational and innovative local sustainable energy projects run by local authorities, businesses, and charities/community organisations. We would be grateful if you would circulate [...]
October 22nd, 2008 | John Pickstone | 0 comments | Continued
Shell Springboard Climate Change funding
Every year this programme offers funding to only a few small businesses spread across 3 regions of the UK, South, Central and North to help them fund product development which is designed to specifically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
It is a competitive process and only the finalist each year appears to [...]
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