Energy Crunch – system failures
UK energy customers have been overcharged to the tune of £1.2bn a year, so says the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Energy Policy
A Clash of Green and Brown: Coal Stays Strong in Germany
A recent battle over imposing a “climate fee” on coal-fired power plants highlights Germany’s continuing paradox: Even as the nation aspires to be a renewable energy leader, it is exploiting its vast reserves of dirty brown coal.
Long live Italy! Can the “sun country” reach one million photovoltaic plants?
Despite the unabated economic disaster, despite unemployment, bureaucracy, overtaxation, bad government, corruption, mafia, and all the rest, Italians are reacting at least in one field: in renewable energy, especially photovoltaic energy.
Despite Hurdles, Solar Power in Australia Is Too Robust to Kill
No nation has as high a penetration of residential solar as Australia, with one in five homes now powered by the sun.
Energy Crunch: the next five years
With a new UK government in place much sooner than expected, what do the next five years hold?
Will New Mexico Double Down On Dirty Energy?
The future of energy development in New Mexico’s Four Corners region is at a crossroads.
Energy Crunch: a clean energy revolution?
Will 2015 prove to be a tipping point in the journey to a zero carbon energy system?
Energy policy – Mar 1
Syriza: another energy is possible / Renewable energy grab in the Sahara? / China cuts coal use / Canada and Keystone
Democratic energy beyond neoliberalism
Our relationship to energy needs to change.
Energy Crunch: Nuclear Future?
The UK’s nuclear plans looked even shakier this week as Areva, shareholder and designer of the planned new Hinkley C reactors, saw its shares plunge following financial problems caused by its long delayed nuclear reactor in Finland.
Introducing “Natural Gas Exports: Washington’s Revolving Door Fuels Climate Threat”
This report not only exposes the lobbying apparatus that has successfully opened the door for LNG exports, but also the PR professionals paid to sell them to the U.S. public.
Energy Crunch: the road to decarbonisation?
Fossil fuel emissions need to hit zero by end of this century to reduce the dangerous and irreversible impacts of climate change, says the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.