The government's refusal to set a 2030 target on decarbonising power generation and the "political vilification" of renewable power is deterring investment in the UK's energy infrastructure, the chief executive of the world's biggest wind power company has said.
Ditlev Engel, chief executive of Vestas, wrote in a comment for the Guardian on Thursday: "The failure to establish a firm 2030 power sector carbon cap prolongs uncertainty for the supply chain where investment time horizons extend well beyond 2020. This is a significant missed opportunity. Over the last year the onshore wind sector has been politically vilified. Such attacks add to the political risk attributed to the entire UK wind industry."
Organisers of BIG Green Week, the UK’s international festival of environmental ideas, art and culture, have confirmed that the nine day festival will be back in Bristol from 15th to 23rd June 2013.
The Lake District national park has added its huge clout to growing concern that nuclear waste burial in Cumbria is a dangerous and economically damaging non-starter.
Severn Trent Costain is successfully pioneering the use of solar panels to power remotely located water meters for the Ministry of Defence (MOD). The environmentally friendly photovoltaic panels provide a neat solution to the challenge of providing electricity to remote sites, which are often a considerable distance from the nearest mains power source.
Hundreds of thousands of flood victims face steep increases in their home insurance costs or risk losing it altogether, following a breakdown in talks between the government and the insurance industry.