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- Solving the Uruguay mystery Fri, 4 Dec 15, 9:00amAccording to Wikipedia, in 2013, Uruguay had 10MW of wind power capacity out of a total electricity generating capacity of 2337MW. That's 0.4%. Fully 1538MW or 66% was hydro. It suggests wind as a percentage of generating...
- Mackay bashes EU energy policy Tue, 17 Nov 15, 8:19pmDavid Mackay is in the headlines this morning, having described the EU Green Energy Directive as "scientifically illiterate" in a forthcoming episode of Costing the Earth. He takes a potshot Ed Miliband for the foolishness...
- Getting into hot water Wed, 21 Oct 15, 7:00pmAs part of their aim to become “carbon neutral” or something equally daft, the University of St Andrews is planning to close the road to Dundee and to the station at Leuchars for several months in the New...
- Where are DECC's numbers coming from? Fri, 18 Sep 15, 6:22pmLast week, DECC responded to a question from Labour MP Jim Cunningham about the carbon emissions savings from using "biomass energy crops". Minister of State Andrea Leadsom said this:
- National Trust wants to clearcut North American forests Mon, 23 Mar 15, 9:31pmDame Helen Ghosh, the former Whitehall bureaucrat who now runs the National Trust, was on the Today programme this morning explaining why climate change is the biggest threat to the Trust's work.
- Greenery will destroy us Sun, 16 Mar 14, 7:44pmDavid Rose's article in the Mail on Sunday this morning is a must-read. He has been over in the USA looking at the supply chain for the new wood-fired generation facilities at the Drax power station here in the UK.
- Another power plant closes Sat, 17 Aug 13, 5:11pmThe Tilbury B power station is to close, reports the FT (see also the more in-depth coverage at the Guardian):
- The biomass industry is nervous Fri, 5 Jul 13, 6:31pmEnergy giant RWE has announced that it is suspending work on a biomass plant at Tilbury:
- Booker on Drax Mon, 11 Mar 13, 9:13amChristopher Booker reviews the madness of the decision to convert the UK's biggest power station from coal to biomass.
- All that is Goldenberg does not glitter Sun, 3 Feb 13, 2:36amSuzanne Goldenberg enjoys (if that's the right word) a certain reputation among BH readers and her latest offering will do nothing but enhance (if that's the right word) her position in our estimation.
- Volte face Wed, 23 Jan 13, 7:22amFriends of the Earth 2004: The Government should introduce a Biofuels Obligation, to stimulate a UK biofuels industry as a lower carbon alternative to conventional transport fuels...
- The Archers on subsidies Tue, 8 Jan 13, 8:15pmThe Archers, the BBC's ultra-long-running farming soap opera covered renewables subsidies in one of its story lines the other day (H/T Guy). The writers were somewhat off message (link below).
- Officially sanctioned conflict Sun, 6 Jan 13, 8:21amSome weeks back, I noticed the odd dual role of Bernie Bulkin, chairman of DECC's Office for Renewable Energy Deployment, who doubles as an adviser to VantagePoint Capital Partners, a company that invests in the energy sector...
- Biofuelishness Sun, 18 Nov 12, 6:36amMatt Ridley has ripped into the biofuels debacle in an op-ed for the Times.