Business chiefs attack UK government failure to secure energy supply
Poll shows strong support among IoD to tackle climate change, a bigger push for renewables and for PM’s move to review Hinkley PointThe Institute of Directors (IoD) has backed Theresa May’s decision to...
View ArticleIf energy ministers bow to gas industry they'll be deciding in the dark
Coag meeting could spark a run on exploration and development – yet do nothing to increase competition • Secret gas contracts hurting competition, Josh Frydenberg saysFriday’s meeting of every energy...
View Article'Secret' gas contracts hurting competition, Josh Frydenberg says
Coag meeting will agree on a significant suite of reforms, federal energy and environment minister says • If energy ministers bow to gas industry they’ll be deciding in the darkA meeting of state and...
View ArticleElon Musk leads Tesla effort to build house roofs entirely out of solar panels
In latest clean energy plan, Tesla purchases SolarCity to make solar ‘shingles’: ‘It’s not a thing on the roof. It is the roof,’ CEO saysA new venture spearheaded by Elon Musk will create house roofs...
View ArticleHolmes truths for Theresa May | Brief letters
Tidal power | Great British Bake Off | Theresa May on holiday | Michael Gove’s beard | Three feet | Christmas stamps | KnickersPhil Jones (Letters, 18 August) says that tidal energy cannot possibly...
View ArticleIf we’re serious about industrial strategy, renewables is a good place to start
With the future of Hinkley Point in doubt and the government committed to assist British business, now is the time to get behind wind powerCancelling the planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley...
View ArticleIf wind and solar power are cheaper and quicker, do we really need Hinkley...
Nuclear energy’s cost, and a focus on alternative technology, including research on a new generation of hi-tech battery storage, is leading observers outside the green lobby to question the project’s...
View ArticleListen to the sand eels on climate change | Letters
Michael Grange (Letters, 19 August) recommends “not asking the frogs first” before building tidal barrages on the Severn. But we are already being spoken to by the sand eels, mosquitoes, birds,...
View ArticleThe deaths on the British coastline are a reminder of the sea’s awful power |...
Fear of the water is ingrained in many, but our connection with nature also appears to be ebbing awayAs the summer slips towards its close with the triumph of our aquatic athletes in Rio, there is a...
View ArticleInvesting in off-grid renewables in the developing world: what you need to know
Renewables are getting cheaper but there’s still a huge investment gap. Here’s what our expert panel said in a recent debate on clean energyHow can developing countries reach 100% renewables? – the...
View ArticleQueensland solar projects that could create 2,600 jobs at risk in federal cuts
Many schemes may not go ahead if the Australian Renewable Energy Agency is defunded in the government’s omnibus bill, ACF warnsThousands of jobs could be created in Queensland if 10 large-scale solar...
View ArticleLetter signed by 154 Australian experts demands climate policy match the science
Leading climate and environmental scientists urge Malcolm Turnbull to take urgent action ‘while there is still time’More than 150 Australian experts have signed on open letter to the prime minister,...
View ArticleA Texas startup's big energy idea: storing electricity underground
Quidnet Energy wants to make solar and wind energy more accessible by turning abandoned oil and gas wells into energy storage vaultsIn a field in Central Texas, Aaron Mandell and his crew are running...
View ArticleSorry Josh Frydenberg, gas is not the cleaner alternative to coal | Blair Palese
Despite the government’s sudden conversion to gas as Australia’s panacea to climate change, the only real solution is 100% renewable energyThere has been a lot of hot air recently about the role of gas...
View ArticleWorld first for Shetlands in tidal power breakthrough
Nova Innovation deploys first fully operational array of tidal power turbines in the Bluemull SoundA power company in Shetland has claimed a breakthrough in the race to develop viable offshore tidal...
View ArticleUncertainty about Arena halts renewable energy projects
Geodynamics makes announcement as solar researchers speak out against cuts to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Renewable energy projects in Australia are already being suspended as a result of...
View ArticleThe designer loo revolutionising Madagascar's toilet crisis
Madagascar is the fourth-worst place to find a toilet, and diarrhoea-related diseases are rife. Could an odourless and waterless loo hold the solution?American design student Virginia Gardiner did not...
View ArticleThousands of UK churches ditch fossil fuel electricity
Majority of the Salvation Army’s sites, third of Quaker meeting houses, and 2,000 churches belonging to 16 Catholic dioceses switch to renewable energyMore than 3,500 churches across Britain have moved...
View ArticleElon Musk aims to refit 5m homes with solar roofs
SolarCity is talking up the look and longevity of solar roofing but potential costs pose questions about whether it can succeed where others have failedElon Musk’s solar company has its sights set on...
View ArticleFantasy art: the future of energy and water technology - in pictures
They look like designs from the pages of a futurist’s notepad, but the concepts below are all finalists in the biennial public art contest held by the Land Art Generator Initiative (Lagi).These ideas...
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