News Archive

week ending 19 June 2009

 

Power Predictor

UK start-up Better Generation has launched a new device designed to help businesses andhouseholds measure the amount of wind and solar power they could generate using microgeneration technologies. The Power Predictor device collects data from a small-scale weather station that can be fixed at sites where solar panels or micro-turbines could be installed.

Business Green 19th June 2009 more >>

Better Generation 19th June 2009 more >>

Biogas

Renewable Energy Association holding a biogas conference in October.

ADF 18th June 2009 more >>

Leicester College

As part of a dramatic overhaul to upgrade its facilities for students and in keeping with Building Regulations Part L, Leicester College has replaced old gas boilers with state-of-the-art solar thermal technology that provide up to 70 percent of its annual hot water needs and cut energy bills at its vocational training campus.

ADF 18th June 2009 more >>

School Efficiency Drive

Making Britain’s schools more energy efficient could help headteachers to save £70 million in annual electricity bills and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 600,000 tonnes. According to the Carbon Trust, reducing energy wastage at schools could deliver enough savings to fund 230,000 computers or 4.5 million text books for students. The figures were revealed as the environmental organisation launched a new campaign aimed at encouraging schools to do more to tackle climate change.

Low Carbon Economy 17th June 2009 more >>

Heat Pump Esco

A new energy services company (ESCO) is seeking £10 million investment to back its plans to provide renewable heating and cooling systems for new buildings in the UK and Europe. Greenrock Energy Ltd has been formed by a group of oil and property entrepreneurs led by telecommunications mogul Cameron McColl, and boasts former energy minister Brian Wilson as part of its board. Based in Edinburgh, the ESCO will finance and operate ground source heat pump systems, selling heating and cooling services to the buildings attached.

New Energy Focus 17th June 2009 more >>

Green consultancy

Two of the UK’s leading green consultancies have announced they are to team up to extend the advice and services they offer to both commercial and domestic customers. Environmental and energy auditing specialist Envos and micro-renewables supplier British Eco announced yesterday that they are to work together to access each other’s customer base, in a move that will see Envos offering energy audits to British Eco’s green technology customers and vice versa.

Business Green 17th June 2009 more >>

Seaweed Power

While enjoyed selectively as ‘dulse’, seaweed is to be targeted across Ireland and Scotland for another more dynamic use than eating its dried version. NI Energy Minister Arlene Foster today launched a research project that aims to develop ways to convert seaweed into fuel. They will investigate ways of converting seaweeds and plant algae into fuel as an alternative to the use of food crops to produce bio-fuels.

4NI 17th June 2009 more >>

Tesco Scuppered

Plans to build electricity-generating wind turbines at its two Tesco superstores have been scuppered by Hounslow Council.

Hounslow Chronicle 17th June 2009 more >>

Southend School

A HEADTEACHER has moved to allay residents’ fears over plans for a 49ft wind turbine in the playground of her school in Westcliff. Westborough Primary School wants to harness wind power to cut its electricity bill, but neighbours have voiced fears over noise.

Southend Echo 17th June 2009 more >>

Manchester Heat Pumps

Manchester-based energy services company ENER-G has agreed a new partnership with an Italian manufacturer of air-source heat pump systems. The deal will bring Robur’s “gas absorption heat pump” technology to the UK, to offer renewable heating and cooling for businesses and public sector organisations facing carbon emissions restrictions from next year.

New Energy Focus 16th June 2009 more >>

School Biomass

St Osmund’s middle school in Dorchester is the first school - and only the second scheme of any kind - in the south west region to fit a wood fuel boiler under the South West Bioheat Programme.

Regen SW 16th June 2009 more >>

Morpeth Solar

A Morpeth School officially switched on £20,000 worth of solar panels installed with funding from The Co-operative.

Morpeth Herald 16th June 2009 more >>

Heat Pumps

‘Gas guzzling’ hospitals, schools, police stations, councils offices and museums are being offered a new green energy lifeline by a leading renewable energy firm. Stiebel Eltron is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of renewable energy heat pumps - a key weapon in the fight to drive down carbon emissions. For the first time funding for its products can be claimed by the public sector under the new Government grant scheme the Low Carbon Building Programme (LCBP) Phase II.

ADF 16th June 2009 more >>

Liverpool Echo 16th June 2009 more >>

Devon Heat

DEVON has achieved the biggest increase in the region in the amount of heat generated from renewable energy in the past year, but still lags behind Cornwall as the South West’s top user of green power. According to a new survey, Devon added the greatest amount to its installed heat capacity, with 4.58MW, closing the gap between it and leading county Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Exeter Express & Echo 15th June 2009 more >>

Feed-in Tariffs

Britain could become a booming market for solar power from next year when the UK introduces a support system used successfully by dozens of other countries. Last week 240 MPs signed a parliamentary motion supporting the mass rollout of solar photovoltaic (PV) power. The support was the biggest of any such motion introduced in this parliament.

Guardian 15th June 2009 more >>

Local Government News 15th June 2009 more >>

New Energy Focus 15th June 2009 more >>

Renewable Energy Association

The outgoing director general of the Renewable Energy Association (REA) has called for a stop to the “continuous warfare” in the renewables industry.

New Energy Focus 15th June 2009 more >>

Norfolk School Turbine

GREEN-MINDED pupils at St Andrew’s Primary School in North Pickenham celebrated the official handover of their new wind turbine, which provides electricity to the school, on Friday.

Lynn News 15th June 2009 more >>

Sewage Power

HUMAN waste is being turned into usable energy in a revolutionary £4.3m project being trialled in Manchester. In a UK first, United Utilities is converting a by-product of wastewater treatment at the giant Davyhulme plant into gas which could eventually power 5,000 homes through the local pipeline network.

Manchester Evening News 15th June 2009 more >>

Reuters 15th June 2009 more >>

PRNewswire 15th June 2009 more >>

BBC 15th June 2009 more >>

Daily Mail 16th June 2009 more >>

Telegraph 16th June 2009 more >>

Low Carbon Economy 16th June 2009 more >>

New Energy Focus 15th June 2009 more >>

Shopper Energy

Customers at a new branch of Sainsbury’s in Gloucester will generate electricity when they drive over ‘kinetic road plates’ on the entrance to the car park. The devices will convert the motion of the cars into enough energy to power the tills inside the store, reducing the amount taken from the National Grid.

Telegraph 15th June 2009 more >>

New Energy Focus 16th June 2009 more >>

Cumbrian Grants

SMALL businesses in Cumbria are being urged to apply for a new eco grants. Northwest Regional Development Agency will pay firms up to 50 per cent of the capital costs of installing green energy products.

Carlisle News and Star 15th June 2009 more >>

Edinburgh School

Currie High School school has taken giant strides in reducing energy use over the past 10 years. The first school in Edinburgh to install a wind turbine, it also has a solar thermal system, and pupils enjoy cross-curricular learning on sustainable energy.

Scotsman 15th June 2009 more >>

BT Wind Plan

BT is exhibiting plans to erect two wind turbines at its Goonhilly station in Cornwall. The company said wind conditions at the site were ideal for the project and it hopes to get about 25% of its electricity from green energy.

BBC 15th June 2009 more >>

Public Sector Loans

Government departments, hospitals, community centres and local authorities are to be offered energy efficiency loans to help them save money while also reducing their carbon emissions.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced £51.5 million of interest-free funding to help public-sector organisations improve their energy usage.

Low Carbon Economy 15th June 2009 more >>

Sunny Doncaster

A DONCASTER primary school is set to become one of the greenest in the borough under plans to fit £20,000 solar panels. Scawsby Saltersgate Junior School is among 80 UK schools selected to receive a grant in the second phase of the Co-operative’s Green Energy for Schools scheme.

Sheffield Star 13th June 2009 more >>

Solar Yorkshire

Bright sparks from Benton Park showed they were switched on to the future with the installation of solar panels at their school. The rooftop panels cost £20,000 and were installed with funding from The Co-operative as part of a £2m green energy for schools scheme which was match-funded by the Government’s low-carbon building programme.

Wharfedale Observer 13th June 2009 more >>

Devon Award

AN Ashden award for sustainable energy has been won by Devon County Council. The council is boosting a green rural regeneration in Devon by stimulating both supply and demand for renewable energy. As a multi-partner project it has led to renewable energy installations in small and medium-sized enterprises, community organisations and domestic properties. The scheme has saved about 1,300 tonnes of CO2 emissions a year and created 55 jobs and safeguarded 16 more.

Exeter Express & Echo 13th June 2009 more >>

This is the West Country 13th June 2009 more >>

Devon County Council 15th June 2009 more >>

Sidmouth Herald 15th June 2009 more >>

Worthing goes Solar

FAMOUS meteorologist Michael Fish jumped into a warm bubble bath to launch East Sussex Energy Partnership’s solar energy campaign to give away free and heavily discounted solar panels for heating water.

Worthing Herald 12th June 2009 more >>

Royal Highland Show

Renewable Energy. Introduced last year, this enlarged exhibit will feature more than 20 companies who specialise in wind and solar power, biomass and alternative energy sources.

Farmers Guardian 12th June 2009 more >>

Scottish Loans

THE Scottish Government is considering spending tens of millions of pounds a year on a loans scheme to spur people into action to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. A report for the Scottish Government has revealed a large-scale subsidised loans scheme could encourage up to 26,000 households to take action each year. Loans of about £10,000 for each home would be available, under the plans outlined by EST.

Scotsman 5th June 2009 more >>

Carlisle News & Star 8th June 2009 more >>

 

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