6th February 2019 | Commercial Energy
The UK’s total greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% since 1990, according to new analysis. Carbon Brief analysis of figures released yesterday by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) revealed that total greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 42% between 1990 and 2017 with carbon dioxide emissions reducing by 38%. The…Read more
5th February 2019 | Commercial Energy
Transport was the largest sector for UK greenhouse gas pollution in 2017, as emissions driving climate change fell 3% overall, official statistics show. Greenhouse gases were down 3% on 2016 to 460 million tonnes, and the main pollutant, carbon dioxide, was also down 3%, to 373 million tonnes in 2017, the most recent year for…Read more
1st February 2019 | Recycling
Government officials are preparing to deal with “putrefying stockpiles” of rubbish in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to documents leaked to the Guardian. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 29 March, export licences for millions of tonnes of waste will become invalid overnight. Environment Agency (EA) officials said leaking…Read more
26th January 2019 | Commercial Energy
Last week Hitachi became the second big Japanese company in months to pull out of building a new UK nuclear power plant because it couldn’t make the sums stack up – a decision that raises fundamental questions about the direction of the UK’s whole energy strategy. Hitachi pulled out of its £16bn Wylfa project in…Read more
22nd January 2019 | Commercial Energy
Scientists at the universities of Strathclyde and Edinburgh believe rocks in the seabed off the UK coast could provide long-term storage locations for renewable energy production. In a paper in Nature Energy, Dr Julien Mouli-Castillo of the school of geosciences at Edinburgh University described a technique that could be used to trap compressed air in…Read more
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