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BERLIN — Germany will stop subsidising solar energy by 2018 at the latest, its environment minister said Monday after last year initiating a scaling-back of generous state support for the faltering industry. Peter Altmaier of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union had fought to set a ceiling of solar power Read more
German solar is dead, it just hasn’t hit the ground yet. The shining beacon of Green light in Europe, Germany is to kill its solar renewables industry dead no later than 2018 when all Green subsidies will stop. http://toryaardvark.com/2013/07/09/germany-kills-solar-stone-dead-green-subsidies-to-end/
PNE Wind UK have submitted an appeal to the Scottish Government after their bid for a windfarm at Tralorg Hill, east of Girvan was rejected. South Ayrshire Council’s regulatory panel said no to the proposals in March, citing concerns over the impact the site would have visually on the area. Read more
Over 600 associations across Europe composing the the European Platform Against Windfarms (EPAW) are hailing a ruling by the European Court of Justice as a first victory in their fight towards holding the European Commission accountable for what it says are the ‘catastrophic’ results of its energy policy. The rights Read more
IN recent weeks it has become clear that we are sitting on mind-boggling reserves of gas on a scale never before suspected. They are locked in black rock known as shale, from which the latest technology, developed and now widely in use in America, can extract the gas safely and Read more
The future of offshore wind power generation in the UK is in serious doubt, as the government’s plans to encourage new windfarms are over-expensive and flawed, a new thinktank study has found. The left-leaning Institute for Public Policy Research has found that the government has done too little to attract Read more
THE glacial process of making the National Grid feasible for renewable energy producers in Scotland’s remote regions is gathering pace. The energy regulator Ofgem announced its plan to bash heads together in an effort to sort out the high cost of pumping renewable energy into the UK transmission network back Read more
After months of angst and debate over the omission of the term “climate change” from the draft version of the new geography curriculum for key stages 1-3, the Department for Education has today released the new wording. The two versions remain virtually word-for-word the same, except for this section of Read more