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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.
Businesses, individuals and social investors are being invited to invest in three new community hydroelectric schemes in the UK.
Eco-friendly commuters and businesses looking for a low cost alternative to electric and hybrid cars now have the opportunity to test drive the latest green vehicle to hit the UK market – the golf buggy.
A Sheffield-based manufacturer of environmentally friendly desktop computers has become the first company to help small to medium-sized companies replace their old personal computers (PC) with energy efficient ones using the Carbon Trust’s ‘Big Business Refit ‘scheme.
The Government has given its backing to a multi-million pound ‘trolleybus’ scheme in Leeds that will help take cars off the road and cut carbon emissions in the city.
The Government has named Yorkshire and Humber as the UK’s first low carbon economic area (LCEA) for carbon capture and storage (CCS) and has awarded £6.3 million to a five megawatt (MW) CCS project at Ferrybridge in Yorkshire.
Proposals for a high speed rail network announced yesterday by Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis, have received a mixed reaction from business leaders and environmental campaign groups.
A UK company that has found a way to store the energy from intermittent renewables, such as wind and solar, and turn them into hydrogen, is to test its off grid clean fuel technology in a Dutch-designed floating office, with the aim of delivering a world first in sustainable, zero carbon building solutions.
This week, the Carbon Trust has gone out on the road around the UK to try to get businesses to stop wasting energy by taking advantage of its free carbon surveys. Peta Hodge finds out just what this could mean for firms up and down the country.
The Forestry Commission is calling on more UK businesses to install biomass boiler systems as a new report suggests the European biomass market will double capacity over the next five years.
Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Yorkshire and Humber now have access to £800,000 of resource efficiency funding.
Nuclear fusion – seen by some scientists as one of the most promising options for generating large amounts of carbon-free energy in the future – has received a boost thanks to an upgrade of the UK's fusion energy experiment MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak).
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has announced that it will imminently submit a planning application to develop what could be the UK’s biggest carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology trial.