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Carbon Trust Survives The Spending Review: Waits For Another Review
Posted on 20. Oct, 2010 by Ross.
After months of speculation, the Carbon Trust learnt it’s fate today in the UK coalition government’s Spending Review: that it was up for review.
Firstly, the fears that the Carbon Trust would be axed today proved unfounded, as recently predicted here at Energy-Saving News. With a raft of business support services all axed from the Department [...]
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UK Government Ignores Big Energy Efficiency Savings; Greenwashes Cost-Cutting Instead
Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
The UK Government has saved at least
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UK Government Falling Short On Low-Carbon Research: CBI
Posted on 08. Sep, 2009 by Ross.
The low-carbon future of the UK economy hinges upon improved government research and development support for businesses.
That was the declaration by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), who today said that the UK Government must maintain and improve the research and development (R&D) tax credit scheme to help Britain lead the way in low-carbon innovation, [...]
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Australia’s Carbon Cap-and-Trade Climb-Down
Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by Ross.
After failing to secure flagship cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate, the Australian Government is being forced to splinter its’ environmental draft laws in order to get them passed individually.
The government is putting forward part of last week’s defeated bill - a plan for 20% of Australia’s energy to come from renewable sources by 2020 - [...]
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South Korea Invests $85 Billion In Green Technology
Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by Ross.
South Korea has whole-heartedly taken the opportunity to join the industrial scramble for domination of the world’s green technologies by announcing its plans to invest 107 trillion Won ($85 billion) in renewable energy, energy efficiency and other environmentally-friendly innovations.
The massive government funding is scheduled over the next five years and represents 2% of the country’s [...]
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Who Benefits From Smart Meters?
Posted on 13. May, 2009 by Ross.
The UK Government, like many others around the world, is steam-rollering towards the widespread installation of smart meters for utilities into 26 million homes, but who benefits more: the energy consumer or the energy supplier?
Consumers - Will Smart Meters Make A Difference?
The basic premise behind the drive for the installation of smart meters in homes [...]
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UK Government On Energy Efficiency Defensive
Posted on 01. May, 2009 by Ross.
The UK Government has sprung into action today to counter growing disillusionment with their plans to counter climate change as laid out in last week’s first Carbon Budget, as highlighted by npower’s latest survey of business opinions on energy efficiency. More criticism surfaced today from charity Business in the Community, whose latest survey revealed that [...]
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Governments should save energy by curbing street lighting
Posted on 16. Mar, 2009 by Ross.
Lighting our lives comes at a significant environmental cost. Around 20% of the UK’s electrical energy is used in the creation of artificial light, much of it through inefficient and over-powered lighting sources. Whilst home owners increasingly resort to energy-efficient light bulbs to lower their energy costs, and businesses are able to invest in intelligent [...]
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Energy Shortages Plague Bangladesh
Posted on 18. Feb, 2009 by Ross.
Whilst Bangladesh has been gripped by large boughts of load-shedding, politicians in Dhaka are accused of dithering over cohesive proposals about how to prevent the crisis worsening, as the shortfall threatens to double going into the peak summer months.
Official current power demands slightly exceed 4,000MW, but the current generating capacity of around 3,000MW is leaving [...]
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Governments Seek Green Solution To Credit Crunch
Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by Ross.
As the world continues to slide into recession, many would have predicted that environmental initiatives would have been amongst the first for the governmental policy chop. As country after country has announced their plans to fight against the downward spiral, however, the green agenda seems to have been furthered by politicians looking to combine Keynesian [...]
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