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3rd Jan 2013
Chris Littlecott
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She made her list and checked it twice, and finally decided who was naughty or nice. European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard played Santa just before Christmas, awarding €1.2bn of funding for 23 innovative renewables projects across Europe. But frozen out of this funding round were projects aiming to demonstrate carbon capture and storage (CCS) at commercial scale.

Greenpeace post
18th Dec 2012
Charlie Kronick
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After six years of planning to drill in the Alaskan Arctic, Shell finally moved into the region to try to begin drilling for oil this summer.  

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18th Dec 2012
Ed Sherman
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Every year we import and consume a vast amount of oil, the majority of which is burnt in the engines of our cars. But right now EU member states are looking to take their positions on the “Cars and CO2” regulation. Could driving fuel efficiency also provide a way for struggling EU governments to cut their structural deficits? 

Greenpeace post
18th Dec 2012
Dr Doug Parr
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Scenarios for an imagined future have become key to the debate over UK energy. For every set of policy positions there is a matching scenario – but how useful are they?

Greenpeace post
18th Dec 2012
Joss Garman
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Documents recently released by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) reveal that the government’s “central scenario” for UK power generation over coming decades could see legally-binding carbon targets breached because of significant carbon emissions resulting from an unexpectedly large role for old coal-fired power stations right through to 2030.

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12th Dec 2012
Damian Kahya
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As the government finally gives the go-ahead to fracking in the UK we look across the Atlantic to see if the US shale revolution can be replicated here.

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12th Dec 2012
Richard George

Richard George looks at the numbers for renewables deployment into the 2020s and asks whether the government's strategy stands up to scrutiny.

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12th Dec 2012
Robert Wilson
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Debate: Carbon Counter's Robert Wilson suggests that, without nuclear, more gas capacity would be needed in future. 

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11th Dec 2012
Damian Kahya
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Britain should get fracking, says the Mayor of London in a surprisingly detailed intervention into the UK's energy policy. We give 10 of his claims the once over.

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7th Dec 2012
Richard George
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The government has just revised downards its forecast of the role that nuclear will be playing by the end of the next decade. So what has the government said over the years, and what effect would further slippage have on our lans to decarbonise the UK's power sector?