A number of prominent figures in the renewable industry have received awards as part of the 2020 New Year’s Honours list, including Virginia Graham. Graham, chief executive officer of Renewable Energy Assurance, which administers the Renewable Energy Consumer Code...
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Climate change: Last decade ‘on course’ to be warmest
Scientists say that average temperatures from 2010-2019 look set to make it the warmest decade on record. Provisional figures released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggest this year is on course to be the second or third warmest year ever. If those...
Social Energy comes out on top as Shell issues 0.001p/kWh SEG
Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) tariffs have been unveiled after the legislation came into full effect yesterday (1 January 2020), with pricing ranging wildly from Social Energy's 5.6p per kWh down to the barely-compliant 0.001p per kWh that Shell Energy is offering....
Transparent solar cells could be used to glaze office blocks
They absorb about the same amount of light as tinted windows Over the past few decades, photovoltaic cells have gone from being exotic and expensive power-packs for satellites and similar high-end applications to quotidian generating equipment for grid-scale power...
Covid-19 crisis will wipe out demand for fossil fuels, says IEA
Renewable electricity will be the only source resilient to the biggest global energy shock in 70 years triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the world’s energy watchdog. The International Energy Agency said the outbreak of Covid-19 would wipe out demand...
Solar helps smash GB coal-free record
Great Britain has smashed its coal-free generation record, coming just under a year since the record was previously set. The record – which National Grid ESO confirmed was broken at 6:10am this morning (28 April) - was made possible by a combination of high levels of...
Cleaner air and sunny skies drive all-time UK solar power record
Significant decline in air pollution and cool, sunny weather sees UK solar generate all-time high of 9.69GW on Monday Cool, sunny weather and low air pollution levels spurred by the coronavirus lockdown have helped drive a new all-time solar power record in the UK,...