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UK Energy Minister: Solar Farms Not Welcome In The UK
The UK’s Junior Minister for Energy and Climate Change, Amber Rudd, recently came out with the rather blunt statement that solar farms “are not particularly welcome in the UK,” according to recent...
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Europe’s Largest Energy Storage Plant Began Its Trial Run
An interview with Nick Heyward, project manager of the 6MW/10MWh plant in Leighton Buzzard, Europe’s Largest Energy Storage Plant Began Its Trial Run was originally published on CleanTechnica. To read...
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UK Support For Onshore Wind Farms To Cease, Locals To Get Planning Authority
Following the recent UK elections and the re-election of the Conservative Party, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced that the government will likely end support for...
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UK Government Commits To Wind Cuts
The UK has confirmed that it will cease allowing onshore wind farms access to the country’s main renewables subsidy scheme starting April 1, 2016. Following the re-election of the Conservative Party in...
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Amber Rudd Openly Supports Offshore Wind, Says ‘Enough’ Onshore
The UK’s newly placed Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Amber Rudd, has confirmed there is “enough onshore wind” and that she and her department are “determined” to back the offshore wind industry....
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UK Renewable Energy Industry Hit By Government Subsidy Cuts
The UK renewable energy industry is set to encounter a new wave of subsidy cuts affecting large-scale and rooftop solar, as well as wind. The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced Wednesday...
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Current Trajectory Of UK Renewable Policy Is Not An Encouraging One
The first major speech given by the UK’s new Energy Secretary has not garnered much in the way of support from the country’s renewable energy industry. Following the recent re-election of the UK’s...
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Help Save UK Solar From The Axe
Originally published on The ECOreport. In 2010, the UK set up a solar feed-in tariff (FiT) that has been far more successful than it anticipated. The country slashed it in half the following year and...
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Amber Rudd Defends Cuts To UK Feed-in Tariff
Amber Rudd, the UK’s Energy and Climate Change Secretary, has defended her government’s decision to cut solar’s access to the country’s popular feed-in tariff scheme. Announced last week, the UK...
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UK’s Green Investment Bank Nearing £1 Billion Funding For Offshore Wind
The United Kingdom’s Green Investment Bank’s Offshore Wind Fund is nearing the £1 billion mark, after the latest round of funding. According to the UK’s Green Investment Bank Financial Services...
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Scotland On Track To Fall Behind 100% Target, UK To Fall Behind As Well
A new report has shown that Scotland is on track to miss its 100% renewable energy target if further investment is not made into onshore and offshore wind. According to the new report, published by...
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UK Government Turns Attention From Renewables To Gas
UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd announced on Wednesday the country’s long awaited energy policy “reset,” and it looks as if gas-fired energy has come out on top. The UK’s renewable energy industry has...
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World Organisations React To Paris COP21 Climate Accord
Saturday saw the long-awaited COP21 UN climate summit succeed in adopting a new climate change agreement, causing a frenzy of responses from officials, businesses, and climate organisations around the...
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UK Slashes Renewable Energy Subsidies, Costs Thousands Jobs
The UK Government has slashed subsidies to small-scale renewable energy technologies, with the solar Feed-in Tariff being cut by 65%. News of the renewable energy cut is of no real surprise, and has...
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UK’s Poor 2015 Made Worse By Paris Agreement Expectations
2015 saw the UK destroy its position as a climate and energy leader, and now faces some tough questions in the wake of a successful Paris climate agreement. Despite a big year in 2014 which saw a...
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Offshore Wind Developers Convinced Of UK Government Support
Offshore wind energy developers DONG Energy and Vattenfall are both “optimistic” that the UK Government will back offshore wind farms. According to news from The Guardian, Danish wind energy giant DONG...
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David Cameron Criticized For Defense Of His Government’s Green Policies
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has come under heavy criticism for his “defense” of his government’s green policies. Speaking before the Commons Liaison Committee on Tuesday, David Cameron declared...
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New UK Prime Minister Scraps DECC, Appoints New Environment Secretary
Theresa May’s appointment as the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister has scrapped the Department of Energy and Climate Change, and appointed a new environment secretary. Theresa May was appointed as...
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