Now you can install a new gas boiler and receive a £349 cashback payment towards the cost of your winter gas fuel bill. The new scheme from npower was announced today. It means that if you install an A-rated boiler from npower you will receive £349 cashback which the company say is the equivalent of [...]
Ofgem the domestic gas and electricity prices regulator is to investigate the sales practices of four of the country’s leading suppliers, npower, Scottish and Southern, EDG Energy and Scottish Power. If found guilty the suppliers could face fines running into millions of pounds. The investigation results from the door-to-door and call centre sales activities employed by the [...]
The use of renewable energy, rather than electricity from coal-fired generators, is at the heart of the massive Greenpeace protest against Facebook. So far over half a million people have protested at the social networking site’s plans to run it’s new data centre on electricity supplied by carbon fuel burning power stations. With over 5oo [...]
The future for renewable energy generation in Britain looks brighter with news of two important new products designed to make converting natural energy into electrical power more efficient. A new giant tidal energy generator is about to be installed near the Orkney Islands. At the same time ECMWF, the intergovernmental organisation responsible for weather modelling [...]
New EU legislation will make it compulsory for all houses for sale to have an energy performance certificate (EPC) by 2012 before the house can be put up for sale. This legislation will help the government in its drive to reduce household carbon emissions by 29 per cent by 2020. From 2012 every “for sale” [...]
French companies continued their invasion of the British utilities market with the merger yesterday of International Power with the much larger French power company GDF Suez. Under the terms of the agreement International Power will be 70 per cent owned by GDF which is in turn 35 per cent owned by the French government. The [...]
Claiming to be the world’s first factory-built solar-powered charging station for electric vehicles, the EV Plug-N-Go received its initial outing at the International Green Energy Expo 2010 in Korea this week. The solar-powered charging station can generate its own supplies of electricity and sell any surplus to the national grid or it can call down [...]
Power stations are an unlikely source of inspiration for works of art if you judge by some of the monstrosities that litter our countryside. But this situation is changing with the advent of new biofuel power plants. Many of the new generation of electricity and power stations need to be situated within communities so as [...]
The installation of new, taller wind turbines at Britain’s first commercial wind farm at Delabole in Cornwall, at a cost of £11.8 million, will almost quadruple the farm’s energy output. The existing turbines which were installed when the farm opened in 1991 are 164 feet high and supply sufficient electricity for two thousand seven hundred [...]
In its annual State of the Climate review the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration says that the evidence of global warming is “undeniable”. It also clearly states the activities of man are very likely to blame. The evidence for the report was pulled together by the Met Office using ten key climate indicators. These [...]
