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Canadian pipe firm buys solar plant
Canadian pipe firm buys solar plant Dec 31, 2014 Vicky Ellis Low Carbon 0 A lakeside cottage in Ontario, Canada. Image: Thinkstock One of Canada’s largest pipeline operators has bought a large-scale solar power plant. TransCanada is paying Canadian Solar $52 million (£33m) for the 10 megawatt (MW) solar plant in New Liskeard, Ontario. New […]
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Blog: Failed New Year’s Resolutions for 2015
Blog: Failed New Year’s Resolutions for 2015 Jan 01, 2015 Vicky Ellis Latest Blogs 0 Take a spin round my neck of the woods, or should I say the urban jungle that is north London and you’ll find the finest Turkish kebab in England if not outside of Turkey. There’s constant temptation to tuck into […]
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Vermont power plant shuts down for good
Vermont power plant shuts down for good Dec 31, 2014 Taryn Nixon Infrastructure Generation, Policy Legislation 0 Vermont Nuclear Power Plant. Image: Nuclear Regulatory Commission flckr Vermont’s only nuclear power plant has shut down for good as of midday on Monday. The plant which supplied power to the New England grid produced more than 171 billion […]
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Statkraft plans £5.2bn green spending spree
Statkraft plans £5.2bn green spending spree Dec 31, 2014 Vicky Ellis Low Carbon, Markets Finance 0 Building work at Nedre Røssåga, Norway’s new hydropower dam. Image: Statkraft Norway’s state electricity company is set for a green spending spree of 60 billion krone (£5.2bn) over the next four years. Statkraft plans for “major investments” in renewable energy in […]
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Revealed: the European city with the highest energy bills
Revealed: the European city with the highest energy bills Dec 30, 2014 Taryn Nixon Coal, Gas Oil 0 Image: Thinkstock Residents in Copenhagen pay by far the highest electricity bills in Europe. New monthly figures show people in the Danish city pay as much as €30.28 per kilowatt hour (kWh), or £23.71. In Belgrade by comparison, residents pay […]
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Ukraine cuts power to Crimea
Ukraine cuts power to Crimea Dec 30, 2014 Vicky Ellis Infrastructure Generation 0 The Crimean peninsula. Image: Thinkstock Ukraine cut off the power to Crimea last week, its former peninsula which was absorbed by Russia in March 2014. Ukrainian power company DTEK halted power transmission on Friday 26 December after an order from regulator Ukrenergo, […]
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Christmas trees used as flood protection
Christmas trees used as flood protection Dec 29, 2014 Vicky Ellis Sustainability Environment 0 Image: Environment Agency Unused Christmas trees are getting a new lease of life – as river bank protection in rural areas of Cumbria. The tree trunks donated by the Forestry Commission are used to bolster flood defences by the Environment Agency […]
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Parents are unaware gadgets affect bills
Parents are unaware gadgets affect bills Dec 29, 2014 Taryn Nixon Energy Efficiency 0 Image: Thinkstock A survey has found that fewer than half of parents consider whether gadgets in households have any impact on their energy bills. Children spend twice as much time on their gadgets over school holidays and weekends compared to term […]
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Solar farm lands on airport soil
Solar farm lands on airport soil Dec 23, 2014 Taryn Nixon Infrastructure Generation, Sustainability Environment 0 Image: Thinkstock One of the largest solar farms built on an airport has opened in America. The farm at Indianapolis Airport in Indiana state will reduce CO2 emissions by just under 11,000 tons, thought to be the equivalent of […]
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Chef shares energy-saving Christmas cookery tips
Chef shares energy-saving Christmas cookery tips Dec 24, 2014 ELN reporter Energy Efficiency 0 Image: Thinkstock The 25 December is an intense day for the most skilled of cooks – and having the oven on for hours to roast the turkey is energy intensive too. To help peel back the energy waste, the National Trust’s development […]
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The cheapest kWh of energy is the one you don't use Delvin Lane, Head of Energy 360, British Gas