13th June 2018 | Commercial Energy
The EU is on track to meet the original 20% renewables shared target set in 2020, up from 17% in 2015. But there are significant discrepancies between the countries, each making progress from a different base. In the UK, while there’s been remarkable progress in some areas, we are far behind many EU countries, 11…Read more
12th June 2018 | Commercial Energy
Scotland has met its statutory annual climate change target for the third consecutive year, achieving a 49% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions against a 1990 baseline. The latest Scottish Government figures, released on Tuesday (12 June), show that the country surpassed its 2016 Climate Change Act goal of emitting less than 44.9 MtCO2e in 2016,…Read more
11th June 2018 | Commercial Energy
As the UK government works to exit the European Union, the nation’s electric utilities are working to get closer. Power already flows between the UK, France and Ireland and Northern Ireland through four interconnector cables, and work is under way to more than quadruple the capacity of those links. The cables will establish a stronger…Read more
8th June 2018 | Commercial Energy
On 6 June 2018, Drax power Station in North Yorkshire made the decision to take its fourth coal-fired power generating unit offline as past of a planned outage programme as it prepares to convert it to run on sustainable biomass. Once the upgrade is complete, two-thirds of the power station’s capacity will produce renewable power….Read more
7th June 2018 | Recycling
The Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Industry Group has called for urgent action from the UK Government and the EU to ensure that the export of RDF from the UK to Europe will continue unhindered after Brexit. The RDF Industry Group, whose members are drawn from across the RDF supply chain, details the arguments for RDF…Read more