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Public Support for Renewables Hits Record 85 Per Cent High
Support for renewable energy among UK residents has climbed yet again to hit 85 per cent, its highest level since the government first began recording attitudes towards energy and climate change issues five years ago. According to the latest survey…
GE Renewable Energy 12 Megawatt Haliade Wind Turbine Heading To UK Offshore Catapult
GE Renewable Energy and the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult announced have signed a five-year research and development agreement which will see GE’s mammoth 12 megawatt (MW) Haliade-X wind turbine head to UK shores for the first time for extensive…
Northern Ireland: Renewables Industry Calls for Long Term Decarbonisation Strategy
Northern Ireland’s renewables industry has today published a new low carbon Energy Strategy and called on the government to adopt a number of new targets to ensure recent progress in deploying renewables across the province is maintained. The report from…
Current Energy Plans Aren’t Enough to Meet Paris Goals, But an Amped Up Transition Is Possible
The world needs to speed up its transition to renewable energy by a factor of six if it wants to meet the goals set out in the Paris agreement to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, a new study…
British Solar Renewables and Mongoose Strike Community Solar Management Deal
British Solar Renewables (BSR) has agreed a ‘first of its kind’ deal to manage 50MW of community-owned solar assets on behalf of Mongoose Energy, the two companies announced today. The deal will see BSR take over the operations and maintenance…
Portugal’s Renewable Electricity Production in March Exceeded Consumption
Portugal is taking an early lead in renewables to such an extent that for the month of March it produced 4.3% more renewable electricity, at 4,812 GWh, than its total electricity consumption of 4,647 GWh. Perhaps more impressively, Portugal put…
US Wind Energy Now Supplies More Than 30% In Four States
Wind energy is one of the fastest growing forms of electricity generation in the United States, with the largest share renewable electricity generating capacity in the country, and according to new information from the American Wind Energy Association, wind energy…