Environmental stories tagged with: renewable

Leading UK renewable energy trade body, BWEA has criticised 'ill informed and disingenuous' claims on the viability of the UK wind energy industry.

The Association of Electricity Producers have confirmed that its members have collectively committed more than £7bn to build new, low-carbon power stations over the next five years.

“Delay in linking new wind farms and other forms of clean electricity to the national grid is one of the main obstacles to achieving the UK's renewable energy aims”, Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks said today as he launched a joint BERR/Ofgem review of the issue.

“Reaching 20% of renewable energy by 2020 is feasible only if a fast and adequate policy framework is adopted”, delegates heard at the opening of the European seminar on renewable energy sources organised by the Portuguese Presidency in Lisbon on 11 and 12 July.

In a European first, Sainsbury's is trialling an innovative new system that generates renewable electricity from moving vehicles.

For the first time, the National Statistics Office has published statistics for renewable energy.

Hybrid electric vehicles have saved close to 230 million gallons – or 5.5 million barrels – of fuel in the United States since their introduction in 1999, according to a recent analysis conducted at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

The new buildings will incorporate some of the latest advances in sustainable design and renewable energy sources which are set to be among the greenest of their kind in the UK.

This is the message delivered today by Alistair Darling, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, as he announced the publication of the government's Energy Whitepaper.