Community energy could be big business in the UK, but work from all sides is needed to make it the success it is across Europe and the US.
French town of Tramayes wins 2012 European ‘Champions League for Renewable Energies’ but competition excludes wind, marine and hydro
40% growth expected during next five years but US market faces “crash” as tax subsidy closes at end of 2012.
Industry executive says better technology, bigger turbines and falling costs will make it cheaper than coal by 2020.
New figures from the Office of National Statistics sets out the UK energy picture…but how well is it performing on environmental and climate change issues?
A new report from the International Energy Agency warns that while progress is being made in the clean energy transformation, more investment will be needed if climate change targets are to be met.
The energy debate often doesn’t stretch much further than fossil fuels and nuclear power, but there are a host of alternative technologies in the pipeline.
Government is addressing energy security, development and carbon emissions with pioneering public-private partnership.
Country will back recent climate change laws with major shift in energy strategy.
In the first of a series with RTCC, Tom Burke, founding director of sustainability consultancy E3G and a former executive director of Friends of the Earth, explains why he believes nuclear power must not be pursued.
New research calls for an overhaul of the Clean Development Mechanism, to favour bottom-up approaches, as it finds huge cost variations in renewable energy implementation across the developing world.
As the UK touts the possibility of linking Iceland’s bountiful geothermal energy to the rest of Europe, Redpoint Energy explains why EU red tape could hold back plans for a European super-grid.
Scheme would open up vast resources of clean, geothermal energy to Europe via proposed super grid.
Dinesh Bhuju, from the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology, talks to RTCC about the capacity available from the country’s 6000+ rivers and streams.
In the first post as part of RTCC’s Student Project, Daisy Haywood from Energise Cambridge explains the pressure the group are putting on their university to move to renewables.
Wave and tidal power technology gaining traction in Scotland as renewable targets loom.
New partnership pursues East Asian grid that could connect Russia, China and Japan to huge clean energy power sources in Gobi desert.
As Super Tuesday gets underway, RTCC examines the energy policies of the three leading Republican nominees and the man they have to beat, President Obama.
New report shows industry is worth €127bn to the EU yet opposition to clean energy remains.
Report calls on government to support community-led renewable energy schemes, arguing this will reduce costs and emissions.