Tag Archive for 'renewable energy'
Labour Manifesto will include a commitment to decarbonise UK’s electricity supply by 2030
June 13th, 2013 by RenewableUK
Tom Greatrex, the UK’s Shadow Energy Minister, announced that the next Labour Manifesto will include a commitment to decarbonise the UK’s electricity supply by 2030. He said Labour has a “relentless desire to take forward the offshore wind industry” which it will put into practice if it wins the next election in 2015. The Shadow [...]
Cheaper wind turbine foundations need testing in offshore conditions
June 13th, 2013 by Carbon Trust
The UK’s Carbon Trust issued a warning to the offshore wind industry on 12 June 2013 that important new innovations to slash the cost of offshore wind power are at risk of remaining on the drawing board as the UK currently has nowhere to demonstrate new lower-cost foundations with more powerful offshore wind turbines. The [...]
The Crown Estate to lease further wave and tidal energy sites to accelerate technology development
June 11th, 2013 by The Crown Estate
The Crown Estate announced plans on 22 May 2013 to lease further wave and tidal sites in a bid to encourage and accelerate technology development. In line with responses to its recent industry engagement exercise, the leasing will focus on test and demonstration projects to be installed in waters around the UK. The further leasing [...]
Plumbing, heating and renewable energy trade show at St Pierre Park Hotel on Tuesday 14 May 2013
May 11th, 2013 by Events
The Plumb Center invites you to attend the 2013 Channel Islands Trade Show for plumbing, heating, and renewable energy on Tuesday 14 May 2013 in La Fontaine Suite of St Pierre Park Hotel, Rohais, St Peter Port, Guernsey. Doors open at 2 pm and the event closes at 9 pm. If you would like to [...]
Solar PV provides enough electrical power to brew entire range of beers
April 25th, 2013 by Wieckse
Wieckse, market leader in the Dutch weiss beer segment, will brew beers using solar power as the sole source of energy. This will be highlighted on new packaging that will appear in supermarkets, bars and restaurants from April 2013. A total of 3,632 solar panels have been installed on the roof of their brewery in [...]
Winflo floating wind turbine project expects to begin production in 2013
April 13th, 2013 by DCNS
Partners DCNS and Nass&Wind presented their floating wind turbine development programme and shared ambitions for second-generation offshore wind farms at the Thetis Marine Renewable Energy show in Brest, Brittany, France from 10 to 11 April 2013. 2012 was a big year for the DCNS/Nass&Wind floating wind turbine development programme as it saw the completion of [...]
World’s largest operational offshore wind farm goes on-line
April 9th, 2013 by RenewableUK
RenewableUK has welcomed the announcement that all 175 turbines at the world’s largest operational offshore wind farm, London Array, are now generating clean electricity. The turbines were installed in the Thames Estuary between January and December 2012. First power was generated in October 2012 and with the 175 th turbine now online, Phase One of [...]
Producing electricity from the wind without a turbine
April 4th, 2013 by Mecanoo Architecten b.v.
Mecanoo Architecten b.v. has designed a scale model of an Electrostatic WIenergy CONvertor (EWICON) using technology developed by Delft University of Technology in a consortium with Wageningen UR and commercial companies. The model EWICON was erected on 27 March 2013 outside the electrical engineering, mathematics and computer science building at the university in the Netherlands. [...]
UK clean wind energy subsidy less than 3 pence per household per day
March 26th, 2013 by RenewableUK
Wind energy costs as little as 2.67 pence per UK household per day according to statistics released by Ofgem on 21 March 2013. The news that the cost of wind is so low comes as the UK’s energy regulator revealed that together onshore and offshore wind accounted for nearly 59% of renewable energy generation in [...]
UK wind generates over 5GW of UK electricity constantly over 24 hours
March 23rd, 2013 by RenewableUK
RenewableUK is celebrating the fact that for the first time, wind energy in the UK generated over 5 gigawatts of electricity consistently over a 24 hour period, with the period starting on Thursday 21 March at 2130 and continuing for the rest of Friday 22 March 2013. For this 24 hour period wind energy was [...]
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