Secretary of State welcomes REA Manifesto
Welcoming the new report ‘REA Manifesto: Growing the Renewable Energy Economy,’ published Friday 12th September, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey said: “In Government the Liberal Democrats have more than doubled renewable energy generation thanks to proper investment in the sector “We have been at the forefront of reforming the electricity market to help […]
Don’t get caught out by renewables deadlines, warns Savills in Scotland
Although Scottish local authority planning statistics show that the time taken to determine renewable applications has improved, delays in securing grid connections and uncertainty over future funding continue to stall development, warns Nick Green, head of Savills Energy in Scotland. The scheduled 10% degression in Feed-in Tariff rates in October 2014 for all non-solar renewable […]
Conergy prepares for next phase of UK solar, rebrands Wirsol Solar UK
The Conergy Group, one of the world’s leading downstream solar companies, announced today further steps in the integration of Wirsol Solar UK, which the company acquired in January this year to create one of the UK’s five biggest companies in the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of large solar plants. From today the developer Wirsol Solar UK, which built the […]
State of Hawaii advances BioTork Agricultural and Energy Initiative
The State of Hawaii recently passed legislation to assist in funding a zero-waste project that converts crops, crop residues, dedicated energy crops, and agricultural waste into economically and environmentally sustainable biofuels and value-added co-products. Hawaiis Department of Budget and Finance is now authorized, with the approval of Governor Neil Abercrombie, to issue special purpose revenue […]
REA comments on Government reshuffle
The REA looks forward to working with the new energy, environment, communities and transport ministers taking office in today’s Government reshuffle. The association also pays testament to former Energy & Climate Change Minister Greg Barker. REA Chief Executive Dr Nina Skorupska said: “Greg Barker was the only DECC Minister to have been in post since […]
National Grid told to revise solar power figures
The Solar Trade Association is calling for the National Grid to look again at its predictions for solar power in coming decades. In forecasts published by the grid operator yesterday, the National Grid’s statistics on current and future solar arrays are said to fall far below other estimates and need to be revised upwards. Solar […]
Re-Fuelling the Countryside – Opportunities for low carbon transport fuels
Alternative energy sources can play a key role in reducing the use of fossil based transport fuels on-farm and in rural communities, according to an RASE Report launched today (16th June 2014). “Re-Fuelling the Countryside: the prospects for low carbon farm and rural transport fuels” identifies farm sourced renewable energy including biogas, electric, hydrogen […]
REA welcomes political agreement on EU biofuels policy
The EU Energy Council this morning reached political agreement on measures to incorporate indirect land use change (ILUC) into EU biofuels policies, effectively bringing a close to almost two years of investment-blocking policy paralysis in the low carbon fuels sector. The key elements of the compromise package are: > A 7% cap on transport energy […]
Expansion for East Anglian energy company
Impressive growth for a Suffolk energy company has led to expansion of their Woodbridge-based team. East Green Energy has appointed two new members of staff in recent weeks, boosting their commercial offering and service delivery. Danny Milne joins the business as a Service Engineer. An apprentice-trained plumbing and heating engineer, Danny learned his trade with […]
