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DECC has revealed its first Energy Efficiency Strategy
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has recently revealed that is going to be called the UK’s first national Energy Efficiency Strategy, which offers a wide ranging package for increasing energy efficiency across all sectors of the UK economy, and could reduce energy use by 11% by 2020, boosting the economy and the standard of living in the country.
read more... 14/11/2012
EDF has completed Europe’s biggest PV plant in France
EDF Energies Nouvelles has completed the Toul- Rosierès photovoltaic plant in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of eastern France. The 115 MW plant comprises about 1.4 million thin film photovoltaic panels produced by U.S. manufacturer First Solar, and is likely to produce enough energy to heat the houses of about 55,000 people.
read more... 14/11/2012
UK’s electricity grid needs an investment of 1.6 billion pounds to switch to a smart grid
UK‘s electricity grid is facing the biggest challenge since 70 years and will need an investment of up to 1.6 billion pounds ($2.56 billion) to switch to renewable energy capacity, according to a report commissioned by the Energy Networks Association (ENA) on behalf of the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the industry regulator Ofgem. The report comes amid growing concern over Britain’s future ability to meet electricity demand.
read more... 08/11/2012
A hike in UK coal consumption may jeopardize the climate change targets
According to some data released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the rate of coal consumption in the UK thermal power generators remains at its highest levels since 2006, with the country thermal consumption at electricity generators up by 37% in comparison to the same period last year, up to 35.1 million metric tons.
read more... 29/10/2012
UK solar installations reached 1.3 GW due to drastic cuts in FiT
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has released new figures according to which a total capacity of 1.3 GW of solar installations was installed nationally at the end of September 2012. The severe cuts in feed-in tariffs for solar power in the UK reduced installations by almost 60 % in April, leaving the government far behind from its goal of 22 GW of PV by 2020.
read more... 26/10/2012