The company has asked for the CRC to be extended as it seems that thousands of UK businesses haven’t registered yet. The deadline is today, October 5th 2010. The official definition for the CRC is: “UK’s mandatory climate change and energy saving scheme. The scheme started in April 2010 and is administered by the Environment [...]

Wind power will take the lead from other renewable energy resources in Europe by 2020, according a new report from ENDS Europe. Based on the national renewable action plans submitted to the European Commission earlier this summer, installed wind capacity will be greater than both hydropower – the current leading technology – and solar combined [...]

Reports that France will see a power shortfall by as soon as 2013 will put greater pressure on the UK’s dwindling supply and force up prices – that’s according to the UK’s largest energy consultancy, M&C Energy Group. France is facing a growing dependency on electricity imports as demand outpaces supply, particularly at peak times. [...]

The UN is set to channel billions of pounds of public money from rich countries to giant energy companies to build 20 heavily polluting coal-fired power plants on the basis that they will emit less carbon dioxide than older ones. Data seen by the Guardian shows that 12 companies have applied to the UN for [...]

Italian Government is changing the rules on offshore drilling. In order to prevent any disaster like the Gulf of Mexico, Stefania Prestigiacomo, Italian Minister for the Environment announced the new measures: the ban on drilling in Italian waters in the range of 5 miles for the national costs, widened to 12 miles around the perimeter [...]

The Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Miguel Sebastián and the Energy Deputy of the People’s party, Cristóbal Montoro, separately announced that the Government and the main opposition party will hand an agreement on energy to the “Subcommittee of the Congress of Deputies on the analysis of the energy strategy over the next 25 years.” [...]

Power demand in the Iberic Peninsula rose by 4.2% the first semester of this year compared to last year. The consumption reached 129,005 billion KWh states the Spanish Association of Power Industry. The energy generated by hydroelectric, thermoelectric and nuclear production (known as “ordinary energy source”) covered 66% of these needs, with 86,113 billion KWh [...]

The price of imported goods in Germany has increased drastically in May. According to a report by German Manager Magazin, the high oil price is to blame for an average price increase of 8.5 percent. It is the highest increase since the previous record month, which was November 2000. Prices for fossil energy have increased [...]

N-tv, a German news channel, reports that the presentation of the new German energy concept will be postponed to after the summer. The energy concept is highly anticipated, as it will address the controversial issue of whether the individual federal states will have to agree to an extension of nuclear power plant lifecycles or whether [...]

The Almaraz nuclear power station has been authorized to continue producing energy for ten years. The permit issued by the Ministry of Industry has the backing of the Junta de Extremadura and the population in the region, satisfied by the continuity of an industry that creates jobs and wealth. Yet, the environmentalists are voicing their [...]