Biogas A new green gas certification promising to reduce the cost of waste handling for anaerobic digestion projects has this week been hailed as a “welcome step forward” for the sector. The Environment Agency’s Quality Protocol (QP) for biomethane, published yesterday, sets out “end of waste criteria” for the production and use of biogas, which […]
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week ending 24 January 2014
Solar Thermal Prospects Good After waiting four years for the introduction of the domestic RHI, solar thermal installers can’t be blamed for possessing a healthy dose of cynicism when it comes to the effectiveness of the world’s first renewable heat incentive. However, now that the majority of the details ahead of the scheme’s introduction have […]
week ending 17 January 2014
Exeter Solar Co-op Plans to establish a community-owned solar energy project in Exeter are to be discussed at a public meeting in the city next month. The event will be a springboard to launching a community share offer in April, which will raise money to buy around 100kWp of solar panels. The panels will be […]
week ending 10 January 2014
ECO attacks bolster Big Six Andrew Warren of the Association for the Conservation of Energy argues that the campaign against ECO has bolstered the top line for the energy giants. Hundreds of thousands of homes that were set to be improved in the near future will now continue to leak energy wastefully – to the […]
week ending 3 January 2014
Low Carbon With lifetimes of technologies typically in excess of 15-20 years, and our inability to forecast energy costs accurately more than a year or two in advance, we need to rethink how we communicate energy issues to the wider public. Instead of focusing on what is the current cheapest option (currently gas), we need […]