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Germany could derive all of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2050 and become the world's first major industrial nation to kick the fossil-fuel habit, the country's Federal Environment Agency said today.
The renewable energy industry has welcomed the decision by the Government to let local councils sell green electricity to the grid.
The Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), which have been responsible for delivering climate change targets across England are to scrapped, it has emerged.
Siemens has become the latest wind turbine manufacturer to declare plans to invest in the UK offshore market, announcing today that it will spend in excess of £80 million on new production facilities in England.
East of England businesses will for the first time have the opportunity to have their food waste turned into bio energy to heat homes and power cars thanks to a new anaerobic digestion facility set to be built in Suffolk.
The John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose supermarkets and John Lewis department stores, is to open its first ‘off grid’ retail store, probably before the end of the year.
Hertfordshire-based carbon management software and hardware provider DEDICATEDengines has come up with a carbon management system that promises to cut energy bills of offices and buildings by up to a third.
A Cambridge manufacturer of a solar photovoltaic (PV) micro-inverter that enables solar systems to harvest more energy at lower cost is a step closer to bringing its product to market thanks to £2.5 million of new investment.
The UK’s first international trading service for medium to large-scale users and producers of biomass pellets has launched – racking up a million tonnes of supply and demand requests in its first week of trading.
A Suffolk-based brewery, which is behind the UK’s first zero carbon bottled beer, is showing other small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the benefits of going green.
The Government has today approved plans for an 80 megawatt (MW) renewable energy park that will turn waste into reuseable products or energy – leaving nothing to landfill.
Essex is to see 185,000 tonnes of its waste diverted from landfill thanks to £100 million in Private Finance Initiative (PFI) credits to build a waste management facility.
A PhD student’s idea to use waste vegetable oil, such as chip fat, as a bitumen replacement has been tested in live trials on a Bedfordshire road this week.
A consortium led by low carbon experts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have launched the first bus in the UK to run on biomethane gas.
The Government has announced its approval of a 60 megawatt (MW) biomass
and Solid Recovery Fuel plant to be built on a disused site at Tilbury
Docks in Essex.