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Revealed: UK's blueprint for a green revolution
One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
Living off the grid: Scotland's wind-powered community
Hugh Piggott is a pioneering creator of recycled wind turbines. He has managed to power and maintain an entire community on Scotland's north-west coast where he runs courses teaching wind turbine construction to students from all over the world.
Task force gives housing the green light
The zero-carbon homes of the future should self-generate the vast majority of the energy they use, but a small amount of near-site or off-site renewable generation will also be allowed, a report says today.
The UK Green Building Council's (GBC) new report, The Definition of Zero Carbon, was thrashed out by a range of stakeholders trying to work out a blueprint for the provision of zero-carbon homes from 2016 mandated by the government.
Solar so good for our house
It was with some trepidation that I went into the cellar this week to take some meter readings in order to find out how the solar panels we had fitted on our house exactly a year ago have been performing. Was the hefty sum of £8,500 we forked out last year a good investment or a waste of money?
UK government seeks solutions for more green heat
Almost half of the carbon emissions in Britain come from the use of heat and the government is finalizing a call for evidence as the next step in developing a strategy for the potential for green heat.
Budget 2008 – protecting the environment
A number of environmental protection measures were announced in the Budget.
Npower first to hike energy bills
Millions of consumers are to be hit with higher energy bills after npower became the first utility provider to hike its standard tariffs.
Moving
targets keep low-carbon economy on the back burner
As we look back on the past year and look forward to
the next, there are clearly huge challenges for our economy.
The housing market, consumer spending and economic growth look
poised on the edge of a pretty steep drop, and there is a growing
chance of a recession.
Global
eco pledge
This month's UN Climate Change conference in Bali will pave the way for a more committed and cohesive worldly promise to tackle climate change in business.
Energy,
energy everywhere, yet ...
The government has set itself some impressive targets
- all new homes must be zero-carbon by 2016, for example. But
how does the UK compare with its fellow EU countries? Is bureaucracy
making us fall behind in the renewables race?
'Zero
carbon' homes plan unveiled
All new homes in England will have to be carbon neutral
by 2016, under proposals announced by Communities Secretary
Ruth Kelly.
MPs introduce 'Merton rule' bill
MPs back policy, pioneered by Merton council, for developments
to have on-site renewable sources of energy
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