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 UK Coalition Government’s proposed Green Investment Bank (GIB) needs “every last penny of support”, according to an analysis by consultants Ernst & Young. The report, Capitalising the Green Investment Bank, warns that unless the GIB is fully capitalised it will fail to deliver the estimated £370 billion needed to transform the UK into a low carbon […]
US energy management and efficiency specialist Johnson Controls has announced that it is hooking up with German supplier of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems, Concentrix Solar, a subsidiary of the Soitec Group. The alliance will allow Johnson Controls to provide complete solutions for the mid-scale distributed and utility-scale solar power markets. Johnson Controls will build, operate, maintain and support solar […]
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 […]
The California Energy Commission (CEC) has announced an investment of $12.6 million in nine projects aimed at driving forward alternative vehicle technologies. The projects, which are expected to leverage a further $16.1 million in private funds, will aim to reduce fossil fuel use, cut pollution and create jobs through the manufacture of electric vehicles and batteries, along […]
A feasibility study by the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute concludes that deepwater floating wind turbines would be able to take advantage of stronger, more consistent wind speeds. Current offshore wind turbines are mounted on fixed foundations, which would not be suitable in deepwater. Instead, in water 70-300 m deep, turbines could be mounted on floating, tension-legged platforms. […]
