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UK rooftop solar panels hit half million milestone
Last week, UK’s solar power industry hit a milestone, installing almost half million of rooftop solar arrays.
read more... 14/01/2014
Total to start fracking in UK
The French oil giant Total is on the brink to become the first major oil company which would explore for natural gas and oil in shale rock in UK, as the company has acquired a 40% stake in two shale gas exploration licences in Lincolnshire in the East Midlands.
read more... 13/01/2014
Daily: British prompt gas prices decline on higher temperature forecasts
Crude oil settled higher on Friday, reversing two days of losses, as traders purchased contracts to cover short positions ahead of the weekend and reports of production issues at a major oil field in the UK kept supply concerns.
read more... 13/01/2014
UK’s coal-fired power plants to come off the grid in less than 10 years
Energy supplier RWE npower has announced it intends to avoid costly retrofits required by European Union pollution laws on seven of its power plants in UK, meaning they will close by the end of 2023 at the latest. The EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) should come into effect in 2016, imposing limits on emissions of climate-harming gases.
read more... 10/01/2014
Germany’s “Energiewende” is not as successful as thought
Currently, Germany is in the process of completely transforming its energy sector at a pace unmatched by other industrialized nations. It describes the country's politically supervised shift in direction from nuclear and fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy. The very term "Energiewende" is some 30 years old, but nowadays, the term is primarily associated with a fundamental policy shift in the country after the 2011 nuclear plant disaster in Fukushima, Japan. In the wake of Fukushima, Berlin oversaw the immediate closure of eight nuclear plants in Germany, with the rest of the stations to be shut down by 2022.
read more... 02/01/2014