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CRC Performance League Table released
The Environment Agency has recently published the CRC Performance League Table (PLT) which sees participants ranking based on their early action metric scheme, absolute metric scheme and growth metric scheme and also if the participants are or not accredited to the Carbon Trust Standard. The scheme provides also individual participant scorecards.
read more... 16/11/2011
New feed-in tariffs for anaerobic digestion in UK
The new feed-in tariff scheme for anaerobic digestion in UK was approved by the European Commission that took effect last September 30. Under the new scheme, the projects under 250 kW will receive 14 pence per kWh and 13 pence per kWh for projects with a capacity between 250 and 500 kW, while the anaerobic utilities up to 500 kW will receive 12.1 pence per kWh.
read more... 17/10/2011
Scotland to allot 6 million dollars worth for renewables
As to contribute at the development of renewable projects, the Scottish Government will allot over 6 million dollars worth loan through the Community and Energy Renewable scheme. By putting into operation all the projects, with a total wind and hydropower capacity of 56 MW, Scotland will achieve its goal of 500 MW of green energy by 2020.
read more... 07/10/2011
Renewable heat incentive postponed by UK government
A new renewable heat incentive scheme, RHI, was postponed by the British government last Friday because of a failure of the Department for Energy and Climate Change to obtain a clearance from the European Commission as it consider the 2.6 p/kWh tariff payment for large-scale biomass too high.
read more... 05/10/2011
New plant in Mississippi worth 600 million dollars
A California solar company announced on Friday that plans to develop a silicon plant in Mississippi worth 600 million dollars. It will be supported by a state incentives scheme of 75 million dollars.
read more... 05/09/2011