Economic growth in China and India are driving global demand for coal Coal is plentiful and more affordable for both China and India Coal demand in the U.S., Europe and rest of Asia will remain steady http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2458631/Coal-surpass-oil-key-fuel-global-economy-2020-despite-government-efforts-reduce-carbon-emissions.html
Conservative plans to scrap green taxes could end up increasing people’s household energy bills in the long run, Nick Clegg has warned. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10377848/Scrapping-green-taxes-would-increase-energy-bills-says-Nick-Clegg.html
Carbon Capture and Storage Witnesses Luke Warren, CEO, Carbon Capture and Storage Association, Professor Stuart Haszeldine, Director, Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage, Chris Littlecott, Senior Policy Adviser, E3G, and Dr Ward Goldthorpe, Programme Manager, The Crown Estate Sam Gomersall, Founding Read more
Government-backed plans to build hundreds of wind turbines on the Northern and Western Isles will lose £700million, it has emerged http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/3427544
Survey work for the new offshore wind farm Neart na Gaoithe will start tomorrow (Wednesday, October 16) in the sea off the Dunbar coast. An under sea electricity cable from the proposed wind farm will connect to the onshore National Read more
Carmichael raises prospect of powers for islands HANS J MARTER NEWLY appointed Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael has raised expectations that Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles leaders can expect substantial progress in their efforts to gain more powers. The Liberal Read more
By Jim Pickard, Chief Political Correspondent Green policies will add 41 per cent to electricity prices by 2030 – according to the energy department’s own forecasts. Policies to promote low-carbon energy include a guaranteed “strike price”, expected to be announced Read more
By Guy Chazan When Ed Miliband, leader of the UK’s opposition Labour party, promised in September to freeze energy prices if he won the country’s next general election, it caught Britain’s business elite by surprise. It should not have done. Read more