All Green energy articles – Page 5
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Final investment decision on £1.5bn wind farm
Dudgeon offshore wind farm in East Anglia reaches milestone
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Comment
Energy performance: Postulation or practice?
We urgently need work out how to assess the real in-use energy performance of our commercial buildings so we can understand their true output
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Comment
Zero carbon is costing us too much
The government has missed an opportunity to improve new housing by sticking dogmatically to an expensive zero-carbon solution
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Features
Southmead: The UK's greenest hospital
Carillion’s new £430m super-hospital in Bristol can lay claim to being the greenest hospital in the UK - and it’s all thanks to some fresh thinking on ventilation.
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Comment
Time to end whingeing over solar subsidy cuts
Cuts to subsidies for ‘solar farms’ are a sign of success and should be welcomed
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Morrisons hires NG Bailey for eco-retrofit roll-out
NG Bailey will install energy management system across 395 stores
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Is effective energy storage the next disruptive technology?
Renewable power generation is currently let down by its intermittant nature - but solving the storage problem could transform the market
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Could embodied carbon be the answer to zero carbon homes?
Work for the RICS on a robust framework for measuring embodied carbon opens up a range of possibilities
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Government unveils support for £12bn of renewables
Department of Energy and Climate Change announces eight renewable energy projects that will benefit from electricity market reforms
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Comment
Can Germany return to the path of green energy?
The country’s response to Fukushima has seen a huge expansion in carbon-heavy energy generation
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Comment
Why the dropping of EU renewables targets is actually a good thing
Re-focusing European policy on carbon output, as in the UK, is the right way to go
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Green Investment Bank puts £461m into wind farms
Bank takes construction risk for the first time on offshore wind projects
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Siemens backs £310m wind turbine plants in the North
Engineering giant Siemens has confirmed it will build a major new wind turbine plant in Hull and a blade factory in East Yorkshire
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Comment
Don't panic: Energy market reform can work
UK expertise in delivering complex energy projects will be in demand across the globe
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Offshore wind schemes: Blown off course
As more UK offshore wind schemes are canned, threatening our leading position in the market, we should consider the rocky road towards investment in a diversified energy market
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MPs call for greater scrutiny of green energy levies
MPs have called for greater parliamentary oversight of subsidies for renewable energy schemes that are set to rise by nearly £7.6bn a year by 2020
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Swansea's £850m tidal power project seeks planning
Atkins is in collaboration with Costain and others in developing tidal power lagoon
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Comment
Forget what you think you know about energy efficiency
Is it time to focus on consumer education rather than more loft insulation?
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Features
Green Deal: One year on
The Green Deal is one year old this week but the celebrations are, to put it mildly, subdued. We look back on a year of disappointments for the energy efficiency retrofit market
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A lesson in boldness - again - from Germany
Germany’s decision to replace its fleet of nuclear power stations is putting it at the forefront of renewable energy generation