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PIU - so far, so good
Following its recommendations on how to spend the
£100m promised by Tony Blair for renewables (see item 2 below) the Cabinet
Office Performance and Innovation Unit is just about to publish
its review of energy options fifty years ahead. The drafts that the PIU
have put on their Web site, although clearly still only tentative, indicated
strong support for renewables, with generation costs by 2020 being
put at less than
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Overview of PIU report
PIU: £100m for Renewables
In November the Performance and Innovation Unit
published its recommendations on how to allocate the extra £100m that
Tony Blair had promised for renewables last March. It called for:
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UK still low on EU League
Table
The European Parliament has now formally
accepted the new Renewables Directive (see Renew 134), which
sets voluntary targets (see chart) for each EU country. Note these figures
exclude large hydro, which reduces the difference between the figures
for the UK and for countries like Austria and Sweden
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RO Delayed
Once again the start date for Renewables Obligation
(RO), which was hoped to be Jan.,has been put back - possibly to April.
When it’s finally in place, the RO will require electricity companies
to work toward sourcing 3% of their power from renewables by 2003
and 10.4% by 2011
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Wind Works for Farmers
WindWorks is
a new National Wind Power service providing a ‘one-stop-shop’
for small wind energy projects, typically comprising one, two or three
wind turbines. The service is designed in particular to help farmers
and landowners to develop a low-risk income stream from the wind
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New Wave Project
Wavegen have
announced plans for a new grid linked floating wave energy device,
to be launched this summer from the new marine energy testing centre
to be built in Orkney. Once operational, in a location still to be
determined, it will supply enough electricity to power 1400 homes.
During a visit to the Isle of Islay Energy Minister Brian Wilson committed
£1.67m towards
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NETA Vs Renewables
‘NETA is working well with wholesale prices
falling by 20-25%’. That was the main conclusion of the OFGEM
review of the first few months of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements
(NETA). Smaller generators reported only a 17% drop below prices achieved
the previous year under the Pool, but power output from smaller generators
had
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Green Juice ?
Although it doesn’t involve a surcharge,
which ought to be welcome, not everyone is happy with npowers new
‘Juice’ green power retailing
scheme- which Greenpeace is backing. For example, END’s Report
319 was rather uncomplimentary, suggesting that, since npower was
evidently still going to claim the power passed on to Juice customers
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Foresight on Energy
The Foresight process continues with the
Energy and Natural Environment Panel having published a new
Foresight Energy Futures Task Force report ‘Energy for Tomorrow
- Powering the 21st Century’. Looking ahead to 2040,
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World round up
France has wind problems ...
French electricity bills will rise significantly
since the government has set high guaranteed prices for wind-generated
electricity, according to the country’s energy watchdog, the
Commission de Regulation de l’Electricite (CRE)
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Renewables could save
US $ 50bn
A minimal use of renewable energy in the United
States could help that country to reduce its energy consumption by
11 percent within a decade. The U.S. could save $50 billion a year
by 2010 and $135 billion annually by 2020 if it were to implement
the Kyoto Protocol, says the World Wildlife Fund. Its report, ‘The
American Way to Kyoto’, rejects
the claim that the treaty would hurt the US economy.
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China cuts CO2
Although China, with its burgeoning economy,
was supposed to become the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide
(CO2), a new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
shows the country is cutting emissions faster than the US
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COP 7 tries to deliver
COP-7, the
seventh conference of parties to the UN Climate Change agreement,
met in Morocco in Oct/Nov.
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Nuclear Roundup
UK Nuclear - maybe not
Jumping the gun a bit, and despite protestations
from the DTI that there were still no plans for new nuclear plants,
last year, according the the Daily Telegraph (3/9/01), BNFL ‘began
negotiations with the nuclear regulator to get the green light for
its latest po
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