UK faces big jump in renewable targets
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Sevenfold increase by 2020 Brussels will next week tell Britain to massively increase use of renewable energy in order to hit increased targets by 2020.â¦
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Carbon dioxide emissions will be almost 40% higher by the end of the decade than they were in 1990 despite growing use of renewable energy, the International Energy Agency said yesterday.
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Â· Thames and Severn rivers set to rise further Â· Battle to protect power supplies
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One of Britain's biggest power companies has announced price hikes of 17.2% for gas and 12.7% for electricity in a move set to hit more than four million households. via Grantham Today
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The UK government publishes details of its plans to create a Â£1bn energy research institute.
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Science & environment: Britain will lobby for a lower national target for renewable energy, John Hutton has indicated.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be advised to try and water down an EU target for all the bloc's countries to procure a fifth of their energy from renewable sources, The Guardian reported in an early edition of its Tuesday paper.
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The company continues to bolster its growing position in renewables.
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UK's biggest energy provider announces price rise for gas and electricity customers
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(InfoWorld) - Sharp is planning to double production of solar electricity modules at a factory in Wales, it said Friday. Behind the planned expansion is growing demand for solar energy systems in several European countries including Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France. Sharp said long hours of sunlight coupled with electricity buy-back programs, which allow consumers to sell surplus electricity back to the power company, are driving the demand. The company will invest Â¥2.2 billion ($18.2 million) to take annual production to a total of 220 megawatts of panels. The factory in Wrexham began operations in early 2004 and is Sharp's second international solar module production base after a manufacturing plant in the U.S. Sharp's announcement comes on the same day that a major international report is expected to lay theÂ blame for global warmingÂ at the feet of man's actions. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)Â reportÂ will be published in Paris later Friday. Companies and consumers are becoming increasing concerned about the issue and some are investing vast sums of money in solar power systems that will likely pay off in the long run through lower power bills. Last year Google said it would build a 9,000-panel generation system to power its Mountain View, California, headquarters. The system will use Sharp panels. Sharp is one of the world's largest producers of photovoltaic panels, which convert sunlight into electricity. Last year it spent about Â¥3.5 billion increasing production at a factory in Japan to 600 megawatts per year.
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Putting the greens back in the green Rising electricity prices could be good news for the UK's fledgling solar power industry, according to a report from ENF, a solar power broker and market research group.â¦
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Troubled nuclear power generator British Energy today announced a steep rise in operating losses and admitted that it was facing a challenging second half.
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Emissions from aviation and shipping could be included in UK's targets for first time.
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Business & money: European commission proposals will create a UK-style market in energy across the entire EU.
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Business & money: Gordon Brown expresses concern over the impact of rising fuel bills
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Flat-screen televisions, computers and  other hi-tech gadgets will use nearly half of a typical British  household's total electricity by 2020, an energy conservation  body said in a report on Wednesday.
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EU leaders are edging closer to a deal on binding targets for renewable energy use, sources in Brussels say.