Posted on Wednesday 31 January 2007 at 03:02 am by Charlotte Webster
"The Government should scrap barriers to home energy generation if the sector is to play its full part in the fight against global warming," a parliamentary report said on Tuesday. "Planning restrictions on rooftop wind turbines and solar panels should be removed and incentives streamlined, and the electricity distribution firms must pay a proper market rate for any surplus pro...
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Posted on Tuesday 16 January 2007 at 03:47 am by Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
On Wednesday, the European Commission will set out a three-year road map towards a common European energy policy, with the goal of achieving a 20% greenhouse-gas emissions reduction by 2020.
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Posted on Thursday 11 January 2007 at 02:27 am by Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
"Every Scottish town should have its own power supplies, running off renewable sources and avoiding the need for the waste of energy at large out-of-town power stations," according to the Liberal Democrats. The plan was put forward yesterday by Nicol Stephen, the Scottish LibDem leader, as a manifesto proposal for next May's election.
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Posted on Wednesday 10 January 2007 at 12:05 am by Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
New homes will become "zero-carbon" by 2016 by tightening energy efficiency requirements, the DCLG declared this week.Under proposals unveiled for consultation, energy performance in the building regulations should improve by 25 per cent by 2010. Three years later, homes will have to be 44 per cent more energy efficient and by 2016 all new homes must be zero-carbon.A home will h...
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Posted on Saturday 6 January 2007 at 06:18 am by Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
A challenging package of measures for planners and housebuilders, which will help to reduce carbon emissions and bring innovation to the building industry, was published today by Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly. The aim is to put tackling climate change at the heart of the planning system and the way we build new homes.Currently, the energy used to heat, light and run our homes accounts...
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