Energy secretary Greg Clark has said the UK’s “substantial” pipeline of renewable energy projects could offer a replacement to the capacity lost by the scrapping of Toshiba’s plans for a new nuclear power station in Cumbria.The Japanese company announced last week its decision to close its NuGeneration (NuGen) subsidiary after it failed to find a
A proposal by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), one of California’s three main investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to deploy large-scale energy storage to replace peaking natural gas plants has been approved by the state’s regulator.Last week, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued its approval of three capacity contracts and one power purchase agreement (PPA) for
The UK government is being “environmentally reckless” and not acting on the “tremendous economic opportunities” offered by new generation technologies like tidal and floating wind turbines, according to Labour’s shadow secretary for business, energy and industrial strategy (BEIS).Rebecca Long-Bailey’s piece for LabourList followed chancellor Philip Hammond’s budget speech which was widely pilloried for not making
The UK has reached a “major milestone” in its decarbonisation of the power sector, having witnessed renewables capacity exceed that of fossil fuel generation.The statistic has been reported by Drax’s latest quarterly Electric Insights for Q3 2018. Figures compiled by Imperial College London’s Dr Iain Staffell placed renewables generation capacity at 41.9GW, with fossil fuels
Adoption of green energy will only grow, as technology makes renewables increasingly cost competitive Opponents of renewable energy—a broad church that can stretch from economists lamenting subsidies’ distortion of competitive markets to climate-change-science deniers, and from hydrocarbons industry incumbents to uncompromising single-issue environmental lobbies—have a problem. Their inconvenient truth is that
WORLDWIDE: As technology costs come down, combining wind, solar and energy storage looks like the way to integrate renewables at least cost.
The world runs on oil and gas now, but it won’t for long, according to a study by the research firm Wood Mackenzie that estimates a global shift from fossil fuels to renewables by 2035.By then, the world will rely more on electric vehicles, wind power and solar power than gasoline-powered vehicles or fossil fuel-based
The company has sold off its conventional power stations to Drax
In those moments when we were all experiencing “the calm before the storm,” we could not yet know the impact Hurricane Florence would have on our state, but we were certain it would be significant. In its aftermath, Florence indeed left a devastating mark on some of North Carolina’s already-vulnerable communities.News reports called our attention
New records for renewables generation were set in the UK throughout the second quarter of the year, with coal power also falling to historic lows.The latest Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES), released this morning by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), showed that renewables provided almost one-third (31.7%) of total UK