Jenny Jones calls for Drax subsidies to be diverted into home insulation and renewable energy
Green Party peer Jenny Jones has called for the billions of pounds currently being used to subsidise Drax Power Station to be used for insulating homes and installing solar panels.…
What’s gone wrong for offshore wind in the UK?
There are various responses to disaster. Last week, the government announced the UK contracts for difference auction which would contract any offshore wind production, equivalent to a third of the…
Green Councillors welcome successful solar scheme
Green Party councillors have welcomed a successful solar scheme in Reading. Last year, Green councillors Dog Cresswell and Dave McElroy campaigned for Reading Council to run a group solar panel…
Hydrogen: Shortcut to decarbonisation or crutch for the fossil fuel industry?
Hydrogen has long been touted as the fuel of the future - the great hope of the energy sector rising on repeated waves of hype. Yet as recently as 2017,…
The Tories have ended the Green Deal Finance initiative—what does that mean?
Photo: Steven Lek, Wikimedia. Last Thursday, 23rd July, the Department of Energy and Climate Change announced it was ending funding for the Green Deal Finance Company. In a press release it…