Power
Nuclear not Offshore will Power UK
By phillaw at March 15, 2012 | 11:19 | 0 Comment
Professor Sir David King said the UK will have to move all heating and transport on to electricity to cut emissions from fossil fuels. This will mean producing twice as much electricity but it must be from low carbon sources. The report from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (SSEE) at the University of Oxford called for a nuclear base backed up by more...
An Ill Wind of Change
By phillaw at February 9, 2012 | 10:41 | 0 Comment
Less than a week ago 106 mostly Conservative MPs wrote to the Prime Minister, urging cuts in public subsidies to UK windfarms, on the grounds that these towering turbines were neither efficient to run nor pleasing on the eye. Yet today sees the opening, in Cumbria, of the world’s biggest-ever windfarm, the switch-on to be performed by Ed Davey, the new man in charge of more...
First Passivhaus Schools in the UK
By phillaw at February 2, 2012 | 10:40 | 0 Comment
A milestone in the UK building industry has been reached with the formal certification of the first Passivhaus schools in the UK. Warm Low Energy Building Practice, accredited by the Passivhaus Institute in Germany as a UK Passivhaus Certifier, announced completion of the rigorous certification process. Warm then issued Certificates, for the first three Passivhaus more...
Education , Energy , Environmental , Power
National Grid Awards Five Year Extension
By phillaw at January 11, 2012 | 10:01 | 0 Comment
A joint venture of Babcock, Amec and Mott MacDonald has been awarded a five-year extension to its existing Electricity Alliance West framework contract to maintain and upgrade overhead power lines across the UK. Under the £650m contract, the JV will continue to provide National Grid with design engineering, programme management and construction services through to more...
