Four gigantic new wind energy projects are now set to be developed off the coast of Scotland as per the recent decision by the Scottish Government to give them the green light. Altogether, the four projects in question — the Neart Na Gaoithe project being developed by Mainstream Renewable Energy; … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. By Sophie Vorrath After a week which saw the use of renewable energy support schemes in Australia described as “plain crazy”, it seems like a good time to take another look at the study published last month by Agora Energiewend that shows European subsidies for solar and wind … [continued]
Originally published on sister site Planetsave. Agora Energiewende this week released the results of a cost analysis of four different CO2-free power scenarios in Europe. Says Patrick Graichen, executive director of Agora: Wind and solar systems will dominate the power system in increasingly more countries. The battle for the cheapest … [continued]
On Friday, the Vermont Public Service Board voted to authorize Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., the operators of the Vermont Yankee electricity generating station at 546 Governor Hunt Rd. in Vernon, to close down their nuclear power plant by the end of this year. Because Entergy planned to shut the Vermont … [continued]
My good Twitter friend Alan Nogee recently shared an interesting graph with me. Frankly, we’ve probably written more about nuclear costs than is worth our time, so I’m not going to write a long piece here again. Here’s the graph (which I decided to title “nuclear premium”): And here’s what … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Australian government members harbouring a not-so-secret fantasy to see nuclear generation in Australia can add another major offence to its principals that such projects would require. The Telegraph in the UK is reporting that EdF, the mostly French government-owned nuclear giant that is proposing to build … [continued]
Writing in a post on PV-Tech, NPD Solarbuzz Vice-President and lead on the team Finlay Colville has publicly upgraded their forecast for the UK photovoltaic (PV) market in 2014, based on the latest round of downstream channel checks and project pipeline activity in the country. “We are now forecasting 2.5 … [continued]
Originally published on Energy Post. By Karel Beckman. The European Commission (EC) has delivered what can only be called a scathing initial verdict on the UK Government’s deal with French state-owned EDF to build the first new nuclear reactors in the UK for a generation, according to a blog post from … [continued]
Originally published on Rocky Mountain Institute. Amory B. Lovins. Renewables are making headway in Europe and bringing a low-carbon electricity system to the forefront. Renewables were 69 percent of new capacity added in 2012 in Europe and 49 percent in the United States. Not surprisingly, this threatens utilities unwilling to … [continued]
Showing yet again how obsessive I am, via Planetsave,here are what I consider to be the top solar stories of the year. Again, I haven’t listed 10 or 20 or 30 stories, but 150. However, they are split into numerous categories, so feel free to peruse just the categories that … [continued]
