Blogposts tagged 'Energy'

It's time to make all homes and businesses more energy efficient

Posted by petespeller - 25 January 2012 at 11:21am
Thermographic image of heat loss
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace
Thermographic image of heat loss

The Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University have just put out a new report calling for new laws to increase energy efficiency standards in all of the UK’s 26 million homes and 2 million business properties. Implementing these recommendations would mean that energy use in all buildings in the UK result in zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Article tagged as: 2050, achieving zero, businesses, energy, energy efficiency, homes, insulation, property, zero carbon

Energy price reductions won't cut it

Posted by petespeller - 17 January 2012 at 3:35pm - 2 Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace

Over the last two weeks all of the Big Six energy companies - E.On, RWE, nPower, British Gas, EDF, Scottish Power, and Scottish and Southern Energy - have announced reduction in their prices for gas or electricity. However, our analysis of the reductions in wholesale prices compared to the retail prices show that the Big Six are not passing on the fulls savings to their customers.

Article tagged as: big six, electricity, energy, fuel poverty, gas

Victory! Facebook becomes friends with renewable energy

Posted by Eoin D - 15 December 2011 at 2:01pm - 0 Comments

After nearly two years of mobilising, agitating and negotiating to green Facebook, the internet giant has today announced its goal to run on clean, renewable energy. More than 700,000 people from all over the world joined to make this possible! Facebook's message to energy producers is clear: invest now in renewable energy, and move away from coal power.

Article tagged as: climate change, coal, data centres, energy, facebook, successes, unfriend coal

Telling oil companies the truth

Posted by Jon Burgwald - 1 December 2011 at 3:01pm - 4 Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: Christian Åslund / Greenpeace

Today, the Greenland Bureau of Mineral and Petroleum invited the world’s biggest oil companies to a meeting in Copenhagen that could be of extreme importance for the future of the Arctic. And we were there to make sure the oil representatives heard about what's really going on in the frozen north.

Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, energy, go beyond oil, greenland, oil

Osborne's plan for the UK: pollute our way to growth

Posted by petespeller - 1 December 2011 at 10:19am - 3 Comments
by-nc-sa. Credit: Steve Morgan / Greenpeace

George Osborne launched an assault on green measures in his Autumn Statement that reads as if it were written by the UK’s biggest polluters. Tax breaks for heavy polluters, renewed support for airport expansion, opening the countryside to development, more roads and a freeze on fuel duty  - all this adds up to the dirtiest budget in recent history.

Article tagged as: airport expansion, autumn statement, energy, osborne, pollution, roads

Ministry blocks anti-tar sands law, so we block ministry's front door

Posted by jamie - 28 November 2011 at 11:13am - 0 Comments

Right now, 50 activists are blockading the Department for Transport with two immobilised cars parked in front of the entrance. Why? Because our government is trying to scupper EU legislation that will block tar sands oil - the dirtiest, most polluting form of oil there is - from being sold at UK petrol pumps.

Article tagged as: canada, climate change, department for transport, energy, oil, tar sands, transport

National Pensioners Convention and Greenpeace highlight excess winter deaths

Posted by Dot Gibson - 22 November 2011 at 11:45am - 2 Comments
Pensioners action on winter fuel payment
by. Credit: David Sandison/ Greenpeace
Greenpeace and National Pensioners Convention activists set up a living room outside of Parliament

Contrary to what you might hear in the media, younger and older people have a lot of shared concerns – not least of which is how society should best manage its affairs so that future generations can have a better life than their parents and grandparents.

Article tagged as: energy, energy efficiency, excess winter deaths, fuel poverty, george osborne, treasury, winter fuel payments

Freezing to death: action highlights excess winter fuel deaths

Posted by John Sauven - 22 November 2011 at 11:45am - 5 Comments
fighting the freeze action outside parliament 2011
by. Credit: David Sandison / Greepeace
Activists create a living room outside of Parliament

This morning, outside of the Houses of Parliament, activists from both Greenpeace and the National Pensioners Convention undertook the first of what I hope will be many joint initiatives. With sofas and tables they created a life size living room, covered with frost to highlight the 25,700 excess winter deaths that were announced today.

Article tagged as: energy, energy efficiency, excess winter deaths, fuel poverty, george osborne, houses of parliament

Panorama provides a narrow view of rising fuel bills

Posted by Lawrence Carter - 8 November 2011 at 1:50pm - 9 Comments

Last night Panorama attempted to answer the question what is fuelling rising energy bills, instead viewers were treated to a steady stream of arguments against renewable energy that went more or less unchallenged.

Article tagged as: energy, fuel bills, gas, renewable energy, wind energy

"Greenest Government" halves solar subsidies

Posted by petespeller - 31 October 2011 at 1:00pm - 2 Comments
Solar power station in Spain
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Markel Redondo
Solar power station in Spain

The self-styled "greenest government ever" has cut feed-in-tariffs for solar power by half, doubling the length of time it will take homeowners to receive payback and risking thousands of jobs in a growing industry in manufacturing and installing solar panels.

Article tagged as: climate change, energy, feed-in tariff, greg barker, solar power
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