Small-scale energy generation may be eligible for the government-backed loan scheme for householders. Read more
Energy
It's bad enough that these turbines spoil the landscape, but they don't even work, writes Philip Johnston. Read more
It is the second earthquake to strike Lancashire since April, and experts say it may be a result of the controversial practice, a process of drilling for natural shale gas which involves injecting water and rock-dissolving fluids underground at extremely high pressure to break apart hard shale rocks and release gas. Read more
Germany's coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country's nuclear power plants phased out by 2022. The decision makes Germany the biggest industrial power to announce plans to give up nuclear energy. Read more
The residents of the small town of Wadebridge, Cornwall, are aiming to transform the area into the first solar- and renewable-energy powered town in the UK. Their journey towards this goal is the subject of a YouTube mini-series. Read more
"Thorium has numerous innate advantages. One is that it doesn’t produce weaponizable byproducts, but it’s also true that the nature of the metal is such that it produces safer reactors. It burns at a lower temperature, and there’s also a great deal of it. As a matter of fact, there’s more energy available easily in thorium than there is in uranium, petroleum and coal combined. There’s just an enormous amount of this stuff." Read more
Two marine energy companies – Aquamarine Power and Thames Tidal Ltd – made strides over the course of this week to further the already expanding field of tidal energy in the UK by potentially allowing clean energy to be supplied to both London and the Western Isles. Read more