100percentrenewableuk has issued a call to achieve cheap, easily implementable steps of making sure solar panels and heat pumps are fitted to all new buildings. Fightback against the net zero sceptics who are pushing the Government to dodge their commitments to move the decarbonisation agenda forward! Sign the petition calling for: A law making it … Continue reading “Fightback against the net zero skeptics and support the green buildings petition!”
The Government has finally published what it calls its ‘Future Homes and Buildings Standard’ that will regulate new homes from June 2022. Amongst a lot of fog generated about lofty future ambitions the reality is that the new building standards are not be strong enough to do more than get 2-3 kW of solar panels … Continue reading “Government (maybe) boosts solar pv but sidelines heat pumps in new homes and building guidelines”
See below for original petition text. Update: the Government has, in effect proposed what we wanted, so we need to get support for that option in the Government consultation (which now closes on March 27th having been extended): Calling on solar pv supporters – tell the govt consultation you want option 1 for future homes … Continue reading “Successfully completed: petition for mandatory solar panels on buildings, and for fossil fuels to be banned in new buildings”
George Eustice, the Environment Secretary, should be roundly condemned for his statement that ‘the technology (heat pumps) is not quite there yet‘. Well, there’s plenty of examples of heat pumps working in this country! The point is that Government policy is practically nowhere to be seen! The big factor in the way of further technological … Continue reading “The Government has cut funding support for heat pumps and pumped money into the gas industry instead”
Carbon neutral synthetic fuel whose production is powered by renewable energy is a practical way of long-term storage of renewable energy. But it is no surprise that the big energy corporations with their fossil fuel and nuclear power interests don’t advise Governments to support this – but when it can help the US military, well, … Continue reading “US military blazes trail for 100 per cent renewable energy economy with carbon neutral synthetic fuel”
The much-trumpeted ‘new’ £5000 grant for installation of domestic heat pumps is in fact a cut in the incentives available for heat pumps compared to the existing heat pump support scheme. This is the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) under which heat pumps are currently funded. Under the RHI homeowners who install heat pumps receive £1000 … Continue reading “Government cuts incentives for heat pumps and gives oil and gas industry money for nothing”
As part of a study of how a 100 per cent renewable energy system in the UK could work academics from UCL have found that EITHER doubling the amount of increasing international electricity interconnectors OR having one third overcapacity of renewable energy generating capacity will reduce the need for storage to support a 100 per cent … Continue reading “Renewable overcapacity or increasing interconnectors will dramatically reduce storage needs in a 100% renewable energy UK say UCL academics”
Drunk on the latest fossil fuel energy crisis, the UK Government has handed the British public a giant nuclear hangover that will leave the country scrabbling for renewable energy solutions. Boris Johnson has promised 40 GW of offshore wind by the end of the decade, which, when added to other renewable energy sources, will generate … Continue reading “How the Government’s drunken nuclear binge will threaten renewables”
Amidst a global shortfall of gas supplies in relation to demand (and a global increase in gas prices) the anti-renewables lobbies are busy blaming a lack of wind and solar (wot solar too?) for the soaring energy prices. It’s nonsense of course to pin the blame on renewables for a combination of a global oil … Continue reading “Gas Crisis – The only thing wrong with renewables is that we’ve not built nearly enough of them!”
As coal-fired electricity production started up yesterday for the first time in months to fill the gap on a low wind day the cheapest solution – investing in more solar, wind and also storage capacity – was being widely ignored. Yet that solution would be many times cheaper than investing in Sizewell C, which was … Continue reading “Gas crisis shows need to boost wind, solar and storage”
A gang of so called climate cost sceptics on the Tory backbenches are busy spreading rubbish about the allegedly high cost of a low carbon energy programme. In reality the most effective measures, including heat pumps and electric cars, will turn out to be very cheap and the cost of making sure it happens will … Continue reading “How the energy transition will be much cheaper than the climate sceptics claim”
There’s been a story circulating recently about how Orsted’s plans for a big offshore wind park are clashing with BP’s plans to test under-sea storage of carbon dioxide. Big oil looks like it might take precedence over offshore wind. But in reality, things are even worse than this. Big oil are grabbing the best undersea … Continue reading “How big oil is grabbing offshore renewable resources for itself”
Brighton Energy Cooperative is surging ahead to make community energy into big business as it plans big solar power developments. It may herald a wider move of community energy companies into organising projects with local businesses.
Ever bigger offshore wind turbines will plunge wind power prices below wholesale power prices. Even as a contract was being announced for GE Renewables to supply 14 MW wind turbines to SSE/Equinor’s Dogger Bank C site, plans were being progressed to test even larger machines, perhaps 20MW by a German research company. Such turbines could … Continue reading “Ever bigger wind turbines will lead to power price plunge”
Most, if not all, of UK energy supplied under a 100 per cent renewable scenario could be generated using less than 7 per cent of the UK’s surrounding waters for offshore wind farms. Estimates of the annual amount of energy needed under a (2050) net zero carbon scenario vary from around 1200 TWh (Friends of … Continue reading “How much of the UK’s area will be taken up with 100 per cent renewable energy?”
