Blogposts tagged 'Renewables Obligation'

Hip, hip, array! World's largest wind farm given go-ahead

Posted by jossc - 12 May 2009 at 3:09pm - 5 Comments

Ok, ok, I know there've been some unflattering things said about E.ON on these pages in the recent past, but that's just us trying to helpfully point them away from their dependence on dirty fuels towards the sunlit uplands of clean, green energy sources. And it doesn't mean that we can't praise them when they get something right, as they've done today in announcing the start of work on the long delayed London Array.

Article tagged as: eon, london array, offshore wind, renewables obligation, wind farms

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Planning problems leave UK suffering from 'trapped wind'

Posted by james - 5 February 2008 at 12:05pm - 4 Comments

Wind turbines under construction in Denmark

Wind turbines - not enough are being built

As the Financial Times pointed out yesterday, the UK has one of the most inefficient systems for subsidising renewable energy in the whole of Europe. Here we use a mechanism called - snappily – the renewables obligation. Like a compulsory visit to the mother-in-law on her birthday, the renewables obligation requires every power company in the land to produce a certain proportion of their energy from renewable sources like wind, wave and tidal power. Those that produce more than their allocated amount can sell credits to those that have come up short. So far, so good.

Article tagged as: climate change, feed-in-tariff, renewable energy, renewables obligation, wind power