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The province of Prince Edward
Island (PEI) plans to introduce renewable tariffs
later this year, the first jurisdiction to do so in
North America. The tariffs will be used to develop
community-owned wind generation on the island.
New forms of energy need to be developed quickly or else the world faces a cataclysmic economic and environmental future writes Jeremy Leggett
A 20 year experiment in renewable energy leaves some unclear answers. Has solar power worked here? Has it worked around the country? Can it help us get beyond our dependence on fossil fuels? Yes and no, to all three questions.
“We simply do not yet have the economic solutions or technologies that would permit us to meet future energy demands without carbon emissions growth,” Exxon Mobil chairman Lee R. Raymond said.
SCOTTISHPOWER chief executive Ian Russell has warned that the government’s ambitious targets for green energy are at risk unless other forms of renewable energy other than wind power are developed.
The cost of the upgraded Scottish grid, some £625m on current plans, is to be spread across the bills of all 25m electricity customers in the UK on the grounds that, while Scotland has a lot of the best wind, the pursuit of a low carbon economy is in the interests of all who live on these islands.
Multi-million pound plans are being drawn up to build a pioneering waste-to-energy plant in Exeter, the Echo can today reveal.
Shaken energy managers throughout Silicon Valley are finding cheap, long-term electricity deals a thing of the past as they go about trying to replace expiring energy contracts.
China declared on Friday that it would generate 10 percent of its power through renewable sources by 2010. However energy consumption in China is rising so rapidly that even a national campaign will barely reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder declared energy efficiency and renewables the “best response we can give to rising energy prices — rational not just populist,” bringing cheers from participants at the Renewables 2004 conference on the third day.
DESIGNERS and developers of nuclear power stations seeking career opportunities at the beginning of the 21st century are looking to Asia.
Green activists fretted Wednesday that the outcome of a global conference here aimed at boosting renewable energy would be gutted by US opposition and European reluctance.
