The BRE National Solar Centre, in St Austel, has been launched. It will offer training services and conduct research thereby ‘playing a pivotal role in making Britain a global competitor in the solar industries’. Launched by Greg Barker, Minister for Energy &...
The UK is set to miss its renewable energy targets by a wide margin, says Fiona Harvey, The Guardian environment correspondent. This failure that could result in billions of pounds being added to energy bills as we rely increasingly on imported gas, according to a new...
A report “Renewable Energy: Made in Britain” by the Renewable Energy Association shows that in 2010/11, 7,000 people were employed in the renewable energy sector in the south west. That compares with Regen’s figures of 5,000 employed in 2009/10. Nationally the sector...
Ed Davey, the government Secretary for Energy & Climate Change, has refuted an article in a daily newspaper today (12th March) suggesting that the renewable energy targets are to be scrapped. He says in his letter: “Contrary to your misleading headline (12 March,...
The Government 'certainly needed to take steps to stabilise the Feed-in Tariff', according to Gaynor Hartnell, chief executive of the Renewable Energy Association and it welcomed the consultation. She pointed out: "The ultimate aim should be tariffs that deliver a...