Rugeley coal plant to be transformed into a sustainable village
Energy firm plans to build 2,000 homes powered by solar panels on the Staffordshire siteAn old coal power station is set to be transformed into a “sustainable village” of 2,000 homes powered by solar...
View ArticleImporting gas to replace domestic supply could push emissions up 20%, AGL says
Energy company says importing LNG will firm up renewable energy projects but critics say gas is already more expensive than clean alternativesControversial plans to import liquefied natural gas into...
View ArticleLabor to keep national energy guarantee in bid for climate truce
Shadow cabinet keeps Turnbull policy with a higher target, and formulates a plan B for renewablesLabor has resolved to keep the Coalition’s national energy guarantee with a higher emissions reduction...
View ArticleSwap gas boilers for hydrogen or miss emission targets, UK told
Households need electric and hydrogen hybrid boilers sooner rather than later, climate advisers warnMillions of gas boilers will need to be replaced with hydrogen alternatives and coupled with electric...
View Article‘Everyone wants employment’: Morwell waits for 'white knight' in divided...
Locals say jobs are their priority in the Victoria election: but does the town’s future lie in renewables or its coal-fired heyday?When Andy McCarthy moved to the Latrobe Valley to start a solar power...
View ArticleHomeowners trapped by 25-year solar panel contracts
Householders who lease their roofs to power firms find it hard or costly to move homeJulie Griffiths* wanted to reduce her carbon footprint by installing solar panels. The cost would have been a...
View ArticleArsenal leads charge into battery power at Emirates Stadium
Club is first in UK to use large-scale system with capacity to last an entire matchArsenal has become the UK’s first football club to install large-scale battery energy storage, in a bid to cut...
View ArticleAustralia isn't on track to meet its 2030 emissions target, UN report says
About half of the G20 countries will fall short of their Paris agreement pledges, scientists warn • Hundreds of students striking over climate change descend on parliament Australia is not on track to...
View ArticleCoastal flooding and peat bogs | Letters
More than 15,000 buildings were built in coastal areas at significant risk of coastal flooding in the UK between 2005 and 2014, write Tom Spencer and Gerd Masselink. Meanwhile Alastair Edwards says the...
View ArticleAustralia’s carbon emissions grow at fastest rate since 2004
Report says Australia will fall short of meeting its nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreementAustralia’s carbon emissions have again continued to increase, according to official...
View ArticleWindy weather carries Britain to renewable energy record
Windfarms supplied third of UK’s electricity this week, with output hitting 14.9GW highStorm Diana brought travel chaos to road, rail and airports, but the clouds did have a silver lining: the strong...
View ArticleIf you thought Snake Plissken’s New York was a dangerous place... | Kevin...
Trump in power; the farce of Brexit; dire warnings of power shortages – welcome to dystopia nowFilm reviewers often reach for a clutch of well-thumbed words and phrases to convey a sense of time and...
View ArticleBusiness community unites to urge Coalition to abandon energy 'big stick'
Some of Australia’s highest solar takeup is occurring in the electorates of some of the Coalition’s strongest coal supporters, new analysis showsAustralia’s biggest energy and business groups have...
View ArticleA billion people without electricity ‘missing out on pledged climate funds’
UN climate summit in Poland will hear public money available is not enough to provide clean energy for those living off-gridThe world’s 1 billion people who live without electricity are not benefiting...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on climate change: too much, too soon | Editorial
We are losing the war against climate change; the use of fossil fuels is driving higher carbon emissions when they need to be coming downOutside of the desperate and the deluded, everyone knows that...
View ArticleAustralia’s renewables sector doubles output in boom year
Clean Energy Council warns surge ‘could come to an end if the energy policy debate is left to languish unresolved’Australia’s renewables sector has doubled its output over the past 12 months, with more...
View ArticleScott Morrison and the Business Council are pushing coal – but on what...
Despite plummeting costs of renewables the government and the BCA insist that emissions reduction would be ‘economy wrecking’Fresh from losing the economic fight about company tax cuts, the Coalition...
View ArticleWeatherwatch: how do we store surplus renewable energy?
We are able to produce more renewable energy than we can use immediately. Now we must find ways to keep it stored until the demand is highA milestone was reached for renewable energy in November when...
View ArticleQuestions over energy firms’ £58m debt to renewables obligation scheme | Letters
To protect customers, renewables obligations need to be managed as commercially as networks and wholesale markets, writes Stephen LittlechildReport: UK householders pick up bill for bust energy...
View ArticleEnvironment, Jaffa Cakes and Kylie Jenner star in statistics of the year
Top prize goes to 90.5%, the proportion of plastic waste that has never been recycledThe environment, Jaffa Cakes and the reality star Kylie Jenner all feature in 2018’s statistics of the year.Among...
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