Tag: Net Zero Emissions

Energy security boost with multi-million backing for renewables

6 August 2023 admin 0

Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps announces £22 million uplift for flagship scheme. £22 million boost for government’s flagship renewables scheme, making available contracts for renewable power generation potentially worth billions of pounds in total over the scheme’s lifetimefunding for established technologies such as solar and offshore wind, some of the cheapest domestic energy sources available, will ensure Britain remains a global leader in renewable energythe Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme plays a key role in boosting the UK’s energy security, growing our economy and powering more of Britain from Britain A multi-million-pound boost for cleaner, more secure energy will make Britain the [...]

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One of UK’s biggest offshore wind farms gets the green light from Government – renewableUK

22 July 2023 admin 0

Plans for a wind farm off the Yorkshire coast capable of powering more than a million homes have been approved. Energy Secretary Grant Shapps granted consent for phase four of the Hornsea windfarm development on Wednesday. Commenting on the Government’s decision to approve Ørsted’s Hornsea Four offshore wind project off the coast of East Yorkshire, RenewableUK’s Executive Director of Policy Ana Musat said: “It’s great to see one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms getting the green light from the Government, at a time when we urgently need to get cracking on building new clean energy projects to generate the cheapest power for billpayers [...]

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Top UK energy firms to warn Rishi Sunak: ‘Don’t back off green agenda’ – The Guardian

16 July 2023 admin 0

More than 100 companies are set to send a letter to the PM voicing fears about the disastrous effects of Britain’s overreliance on gas. More than 100 of the UK’s biggest energy companies will tell Rishi Sunak this week not to back off the green agenda after a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) warned of catastrophic effects on the economy of continued overreliance on gas. The energy sector is becoming so alarmed at what it sees as the Sunak government’s mixed messages on switching to more renewable energy that big UK companies are ready to go public with a letter to Downing Street [...]

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Tighter limit on industrial, power and aviation emissions, as UK leads the way to net zero

9 July 2023 admin 0

The UK Emissions Trading Scheme Authority has announced a package of reforms to tighten limits on industrial, power and aviation emissions from 2024. UK power and industrial sectors to trailblaze the way to decarbonisation, as a tighter cap confirmed for emissions from selected high energy industries that will set a path to the country’s ambitious climate goals. Today a package of reforms has been announced by the UK Emissions Trading Scheme Authority (UK ETS) – the joint body comprising the UK Government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland that runs the scheme. The scheme [...]

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UN launches push for net-zero emissions by 2050 – BBC

15 June 2020 admin 0

Kevin Keane, BBC Scotland's environment correspondent reports on global warming and Race to Net Zero Emissions. This is part of the diplomatic push to increase ambition in the lead up to the COP26 international climate change summit in Glasgow next November. To view the full article: BBC - 5th June 2020 - UN launches push for net-zero emissions by 2050 Article summary below: BBC short film on global warming: The piece includes a short film on global warming. To begin with, the report gives an explanation of what global warming is. Greenhouse gases stop heat escaping from the atmosphere. [...]

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