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• A Post for Earth Day

  This week has been a busy week in the world of energy – on the down side the government gave the green light to fracking, Greg Barker rang the death knell for onshore wind (and then tried to backtrack from the headlines), breaking election promises to give hidden subsidies to nuclear energy and figures showed that solar installations have [...]

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• Stop Press – No Nuclear on the Horizon

  Today, energy giants RWE and E.ON announced that they plan to sell their nuclear joint venture Horizon.  They had planned to develop new nuclear sites in Gloucestershire and Wales, but now aren’t willing to go ahead with the investment. There are a number of factors to the decision apparently.  Both companies took a hit when Germany elected [...]

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• Budget Blows and Supreme Court Slapdowns

  Last week was a curious week for renewable energy and a sustainable energy future for the UK. The reactionaries embedded within the Treasury had clearly gotten to George Osbourne again and the budget statement on Wednesday felt like a kick in the teeth for the green economy, quite the opposite of what one would have [...]

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