Jeremy Leggett in the FT: Europe is on the brink of a trade war with China in one of the fastest-growing global industries. America and China are already engaged in battle. The job-rich and emissions-low solar photovoltaics industry is heading for severe impairment, at best.” (more…)
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Archive for the ‘Nuclear’ Category
“Call a truce in the no-winners solar war.”
May 7, 2013 Clean Energy, Climate, Coal, Commentaries, Finance, Gas, Nuclear, OilTop official working on EMR resigns as analyst warns HMG off gas reliance.
April 29, 2013 Clean Energy, Coal, Gas, NuclearUK energy prices: most inflation is not due to green energy, but gas.
April 21, 2013 Clean Energy, Coal, Gas, NuclearGuardian: “The simple answer is that green energy is not costing you nearly as much as you’ve been led to believe. Yes, energy bills have soared. A new government report analysing the cost of energy and climate-change policies on the cost of energy lays the blame squarely at the feet of global gas prices, followed by network costs.” (more…)
Report urges use of gas to avoid UK energy crunch.
April 21, 2013 Clean Energy, Climate, Coal, Gas, NuclearFT: Closing Britain’s coal-fired power stations should continue if the government is to meet carbon cutting targets, according to a cross-party report. It argued that gas power generation could providing enough capacity to avoid an energy crunch in the next decade.” (more…)
EDF may let UK nuclear talks fail.
April 18, 2013 NuclearSupport for new UK nuclear slips as indecision mounts.
April 12, 2013 NuclearIpsos MORI: “The latest national face-to-face survey from Ipsos MORI shows that public support for building new nuclear power stations has fallen by eight percentage points in the last year to 42%.” (more…)
MPs and academics call for NAO to review UK nuclear negotiations.
April 6, 2013 Commentaries, NuclearTelegraph letter: “The Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Treasury are negotiating with the French nuclear corporation EDF about the financing of possible new nuclear in the UK. Through these negotiations, the Government is aiming to guarantee a set price for nuclear energy – a ‘strike price’. This price will be well above the market price for electricity, meaning that UK taxpayer and energy consumer will be paying the difference. This contract will be locked in for very many decades – up to 40 years.” (more…)
Japan plans radical electricity market shakeup. Only 2 reactors online.
April 2, 2013 Clean Energy, Coal, Gas, NuclearRenewable energy providers to pay back-up costs for UK nuclear.
March 27, 2013 Clean Energy, NuclearUK government now has 2030 as target for new nuclear.
March 26, 2013 NuclearTelegraph: “In a Nuclear Industrial Strategy report it said it now hoped the new reactors at five sites around the country would be developed “by 2030”. The Government also gave the first official confirmation that the costs of the first proposed new plant, at Hinkley Point in Somerset, have risen to as much as £14bn.” (more…)
UK nuclear subsidies flout EU rules, lawyers say.
March 20, 2013 NuclearEDF gets UK nuclear planning go ahead.
March 19, 2013 NuclearEDF drops civil lawsuit against activists in face of public pressure.
March 13, 2013 Climate, Gas, NuclearOperator of delayed Olkiluoto reactor is running out cash.
February 27, 2013 NuclearTVO press release: “TVO is now asking its shareholders to inject additional 300 million euros into the company.” (more…)
RWE boss warns UK government against nuclear subsidies (for EDF).
February 20, 2013 NuclearEDF confirms it is pressuring UK ministers for 40 year subsidies.
February 19, 2013 NuclearGuardian: “The French-owned company is in talks with ministers over “contracts for difference” funding, under which the government guarantees generators will be paid a minimum price for electricity from new nuclear plants: if the market price falls lower than this “strike price” then a surcharge will be added to customers’ bills; if it rises higher there would be a refund.” (more…)
Solar = random desecration of the countryside: comedian.
May 22, 2013 Clean Energy, Climate, Commentaries, Gas, NuclearGuardian: “The comedian Griff Rhys Jones has accused the government of “random desecration” of the countryside and despoiling “pristine landscapes” through its subsidies to wind turbines and solar power.” (more…)
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