New paper on Balancing Mechanism and Connect and Manage Constraint Payments to Windfarms. There has been a lot of coverage in the press recently about the spiralling cost of Constraint Payments to windfarms when National Grid asks them to stop Read more
I first came across this shocking industrial wind turbine (IWT) gearbox problem some time back and posted about it here. http://billothewisp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/wind-turbines-ghost-in-gearbox.html
Ministers from Germany, France and six other countries have called for the European Union to set a 2030 goal for renewable energy use, in opposition to their British counterpart who advocates a sole greenhouse gas emissions target. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/07/eu-2030-renewable-energy-target-ministers?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Greenpeace may have been founded in Canada and its global headquarters are now in Holland, but the jewel in its crown is Germany. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/06/germany-out-in-the-coal
With hurricanes, and storms in general, that’s very hard to tell – they’re fairly rare events, so trends are hard to distinguish – but the answer is “very slowly if at all”. Last month the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Read more
Should evil climate deniers be denied the oxygen of publicity? http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100252804/on-why-it-would-be-quite-wrong-to-laugh-about-prof-chris-turkey-and-his-antarctic-ship-of-fools/
Residents across the north-east are being offered the chance to view plans to build a world-leading green energy scheme in the region. http://www.energyvoice.com/2014/01/residents-get-chance-view-peterhead-carbon-capture-plans-meetings/
Two wind turbines installed in a Nottinghamshire park are unlikely to make a financial saving, the authority that bought them has admitted. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25595421