The official ground-breaking ceremony for what will become Europe’s largest onshore windfarm was performed today by Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Alistair Darling.
The £300m Whitelee Windfarm, south of Glasgow, will continue Scotland’s history of providing power for the UK.
140 turbines will provide enough power for 200,000 homes and reduce emissions by an impressive [...]
British wholesale gas prices are now negative, due to the sudden arrival of supplies from Norway. Because of storage constraints, firms need to offload supplies. One wonders if the designers of the IT systems of the gas suppliers allowed for negative prices.
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The UK’s DEFRA is inviting comments on the European Emissions Trading Scheme Phase II targets, as per here. The comments are restricted to noting, “any errors that may be contained in the data and information used to calculate the incumbent allocations.” Deadline is 2006-10-16.
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The Government today announced plans for an Energy Technologies Institute,
a new energy and environmental research institute, and for it to become, for Britain, at the cutting edge of science [...]
The UK Government is considering relaxing the rules regarding carbon emissions, in order to allow smaller companies and non-commercial organizations (such as hospitals and universities) to opt-out of the carbon quota and trading scheme. These organizations emit only a small proportion of the total CO2, so allowing them to opt out should not affect total [...]
