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Is The South-West The Low Carbon Economic Area For The Wrong Renewable Energy?

Is The South-West The Low Carbon Economic Area For The Wrong Renewable Energy?

Posted on 25. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Should the South-West abandon it’s empty tag as wave power experts and pursue geothermal energy instead?
The scene is an easy one to imagine. A group of UK politicians come with a great idea: create specialist areas of excellence across the country in different low-carbon technology sectors, allowing creativity, research efforts and infrastructure improvements to concentrate [...]

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UK Needs To Build Two New Nuclear Power Stations Every Year… Forever!

UK Needs To Build Two New Nuclear Power Stations Every Year… Forever!

Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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In order to meet its carbon reduction targets, the UK must build two new nuclear or CCS-equipped coal power stations every year, starting right now and continuing indefinitely - and do a whole lot more besides.
UK energy policy is failing by not facing up to the realities that its aim of an 80% reduction in [...]

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Government Funding Ignores UK’s First Low Carbon Economic Area; Orecon Sinks

Government Funding Ignores UK’s First Low Carbon Economic Area; Orecon Sinks

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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The government has turned a blind eye to a key pledge in the world’s first Carbon Budget by allowing funds for wave power companies to be allocated almost entirely outside of the geographic area designated to see the benefits of the technology. As a result, Cornish wave power company Orecon has been forced to close, [...]

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Carbon Trust Catches The Energy Wave

Carbon Trust Catches The Energy Wave

Posted on 14. Sep, 2009 by Ross.

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The Carbon Trust is to support two cutting edge marine energy devices in a bid to accelerate the commercial development of wave and tidal energy in the UK. Projects to be supported through the Marine Energy Accelerator with Pelamis Wave Power and Marine Current Turbines will focus on installation and maintenance which currently account for [...]

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