Ahead of the release of the details UK Coalition Government’s spending review later this week, green group Friends of the Earth is warning that any cut to feed-in tariffs (FITs) could provoke a legal challenge. Reports in the media today are hinting that cuts to feed-in tariffs of 10% could be on the cards as part of […]
UK Transport Minister Norman Baker today announced the 14 organisations that will share £15 million to support the purchase of new ‘green’ buses. Under the second round of the Green Bus Fund, over 170 new hybrid and electric buses will be bought by transport companies up and down the country. The largest grants went to Transport […]
The Coalition Government has launched its revised National Policy Statements (NPSs) on energy, which map out a future with over half new generating capacity coming from renewable sources by 2025. But that new renewable capacity will not include the proposed 8.6 GW tidal energy project in the Severn estuary in the south west, which could have met up to […]
Wave power developer Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has netted $2.75 million from the US Navy to fund the second stage in the company’s existing wave energy project. OPT has completed the first stage of a four-year $15 million project to test the company’s PowerBuoy technology. The next stage of the Littoral Expeditionary Autonomous PowerBuoy (LEAP) programme, […]
UK Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude today released a list of around 200 Government-backed bodies – or ‘quangos’ – that will be axed as a part of cost-cutting measures. A number of high profile green quangos were thought to be at risk including the Carbon Trust – which now appears to have had a repreive. […]
The third in a series of joint US-China Clean Energy Research Centres (CERCs) will be led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and focus on energy efficient buildings, it was announced last week. The consortium, which includes Oak Ridge National Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California-Davis, The Dow Chemical Company, Honeywell and General Electric, will […]
