Prescott slams nimby crew

John Prescott has lambasted the nimby set for stopping vital wind farm developments across the UK.

Palm oil muddies renewables drive

An interesting debate on the use of biofuels in electricity generation arose last week when Newport City Council deliberated over Vogen Energy’s planning proposal for a palm oil power plant.

Floating turbine could lift planning barriers

With wind turbine applications getting bogged down in the planning system, could an army of floating off-shore turbines be the answer?

Forget green roofs, the future is white

It sounds ridiculous but a call from the top US climate scientist to paint our roofs white signals the huge step change that is taking place in plans to tackle climate change across the globe.

Wind farm approval rate ‘at 40%’

Just to update my earlier post, the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) have sent a press release over to mark the opening Europe’s largest onshore windfarm – Scotland’s Whitelee which has a capacity of 322MW, enough to power 180,000 homes, or a city the size of Glasgow.

Renewables push exposes old tensions

The old tension between economic growth and the ability of the planning system to protect the countryside seems to be coming to a head in the push for wind energy.