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New green power agreement
Interesting headline “UK and Norway agree North Sea cooperation” just in from the newswire (aka my Yahoo news alerts) via Windpower. Another progressive move towards creating more renewables? Terje...
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Scottish energy: critical mass for renewables?
Some reports in the press this week about Scotland and the renewable energy sector, with Alex Salmond saying we are at a “turning point in human history”, and predicting that sixty thousand jobs will...
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The electricity value chain, renewables and storage
The same question always arises with wind power – what do you do when it’s not windy? One of the challenges that the national grid has is making sure there’s enough power to mee demand, but not...
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Electricity From Nuclear v. The Lake District
Bit of a depressing one, this. All the talk there’s been of late about green energy, renewables, and whatnot must have been making me see through green-tinted spectacles. I genuinely was convinced...
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Green Scottish News
Big news item at the weekend – it even made the headline in the Scottish edition of the times. The mighty Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are to invest £100 million over a period of five years, “to turn...
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Scottish energy – hydrogen renewables
Pictured below is Hydrogen Office, which was officially opened this week by the First Minister, Alex Salmond. part of Fife’s exciting Energy Park – Scotland’s world class renewables hub. The most...
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Wind power – terawatts
I was watching the video below, thinking it was all pretty unremarkable…. until this line: there are seventy-two TeraWatts of useable wind energy in the world: the world only uses about eight to nine...
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Renewable Heat Incentive – another green world?
Interesting news hits the green pages of the press this week in the shape of an announcement of government plans to introduce a Renewable Heat Incentive next year. Setting aside for a moment any...
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Clean, endless electricity
“It’s clean, and it’s endless…” Fascinating video from the Guardian’s excellent Energy/ Environment pages. Sadly no embed code so link is here. Solar energy in the UK took a bit of a bump this week as...
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