Environmental stories tagged with: renew

A consortium of leading energy suppliers, electronic companies and academics have formed to develop smart grid technologies on the Danish Island of Bornholm to foster large scale adoption of electric powered vehicles using sustainable energy.

The Borough of Poole is introducing a new project to fund the installation of biomass boilers in community buildings in an effort to reduce Poole's carbon emissions.

Half Britain's homes could be heated by renewable gas, says National Grid in a report it has presented to the UK Government.

A proposed shortlist of tidal power schemes to generate green electricity in the Severn estuary has been unveiled by the Government. The shortlist includes a mixture of barrages and innovative lagoon schemes

As part of the Governments Energy Trends report, BERR have realeased 2007 renewables figures for the first time, showing an increase of 8.5 percent on 2006 for renewable electricity, but this still only represents 5% of all the UK's electricity generated from all sources.

A national renewable energy blueprint designed to slash carbon emissions dramatically, reduce the UK's dependency on oil and gas and create 160,000 green jobs was set out by Business Secretary John Hutton today.

The Renewables Advisory Board has reported that the UK could generate 14% of its total energy from renewables by 2020 if a set of identified radical policy changes are put into effect quickly.

The East of England Development Agency (EEDA) is to manage a £1 million funding pot to help fight fuel poverty across the East of England.

Asia-Pacific countries reached an agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bangkok to boost their collaboration on developing renewable energy in a bid to decrease their reliance on fossil fuels and enhance their long-term energy security.

A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation's transportation fuel if production can be scaled up.

From tomorrow (15th April), all road fuels will be required to contain 2.5% biofuel, rising to 5% by 2010, under a move known as the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO).