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<title>UK: The potential for hydrogen</title>
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<description>A ground breaking project to ensure the UK is well positioned for the commercial roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles has been launched, Business Minister Mark Prisk announced today.</description>
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<title>UK: Best electricity supplier</title>
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<description>Good Energy, the UK&amp;#129;'s only 100% renewable electricity supplier, has been voted best electricity supplier in a customer satisfaction survey conducted by Which?, the independent consumer watchdog, for a second time.</description>
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<title>UK: Fuel Cell Power Autumn 2011</title>
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<description>The Government is focusing upon eight ‘key’ renewable energy technologies, for onshore wind, offshore wind, marine energy, biomass electricity, biomass heat, ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps and renewable transport.   Onshore and offshore wind and marine energy could be utilized more effectively if hydrogen fuel cell systems were employed to store surplus energy and make it available when required as electricity and heat.  Biomass electricity and heat may also be utilised more efficiently in CHP mode with fuel cells. Heat pumps are efficient means of generating heat, but they still require electricity and this will add to the peak winter demand.  Fuel cells will complement heat pumps, providing both electricity and additional heat when required.  The Government does include fuel cells powered by green hydrogen as one of the key power sources for transport, alongside biofuels.  The electric vehicles, whether powered by batteries or hydrogen fuel cells, will be an important means of levelling the load from intermittent renewable energy sources.   For those wanting to use solar panels, which are not listed as a key technology, hydrogen fuel cell systems will enable them to utilise energy from the sun when required during the evenings. Read the full Newsletter.</description>
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<title>UK: Solar panel firms back Friends of Earth</title>
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<description>Solar panels firms are backing Friends of the Earth’s plans to take the government to court over green incentives being slashed.</description>
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<title>UK: Critical time in the Solar calendar!</title>
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<description>For any of you that don’t already know, next Tuesday is a critical time in the Solar calendar, where anyone who believes in renewable energy, and is horrified by the approach the Government has taken to change the tariffs, has the opportunity to come together, and tell our MP’s how we feel about the situation.</description>
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<title>UK Electric rally team returns from World Rally</title>
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<description>Gordon Foat of Green MotorSport Woking has just returned after successfully completing the (WAVE) World Advanced Vehicle Expedition.  Representing Great Britain in this project of international importance, and driving for Team 17 UK in the first zero emission expedition, Gordon drove from Woking to Paris for the start of WAVE on 11th Sep 2011.</description>
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<title>RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR TRANSPORT</title>
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<description>Gordon Foat of Green MotorSport will be driving for Team UK in the first World Advanced Vehicle Expedition (WAVE).    Starting in Paris on Sunday 11th September, Gordon will drive a pure electric car, powered from renewable energy, through 30 European cities to Prague. While the renewable energy infrastructure is being built up, all participants in the WAVE will feed electricity from renewable sources into their local grid and draw an equivalent amount to power their vehicles en route.  For more info see Green MotorSport news</description>
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<title>Europe picks up the pace in the race against climate change</title>
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<description>The Low Energy Alternative Future (LEAF) Index, now in its second year, asked 5,511 respondents across Europe for their views on sustainability and low energy living. The data was then analysed by Imperial College London’s Energy Futures Lab, led by Professor Nigel Brandon, and countries were ranked on their positive attitudes to sustainability issues. As first Sustainability Partner of the London 2012 Games, EDF Energy commissioned the study to gauge attitudes towards energy saving in the year before Britain powers the Olympics. </description>
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<title>Germany,Berlin: Introduction to Renewable Energy Technologies</title>
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<description>Run by the Renewables Academy in Berlin, this course is aimed at those in the business, non-profit, public and academic sectors who wish to get a comprehensive introduction to renewable energy technologies, as well as those wishing to installing renewable energy systems in both urban or rural settings. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own projects. Ideal for newcomers to the industry. The course is aimed at an international audience and will be in English.</description>
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<title>The Channel Tunnel has further reduced its carbon footprint</title>
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<description>Groupe Eurotunnel as a global organisation has just been certified by the independent British organisation Carbon Trust Standard for its policy and achievements in carbon footprint reduction.  The Carbon Trust Standard has calculated specifically that, for the period 2009/2010, the transport system which makes up the cross-Channel Fixed Link has further reduced its carbon footprint by 20.5%, after taking into account that two years ago between 2006 and 2008 Eurotunnel had already reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 44%. </description>
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<title>Midrand, South Africa: Vodacom to build one of Africa’s greenest commercial buildings</title>
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<description>South African innovation centre will develop renewable energy solutions to help reduce carbon emissions across Vodafone group Vodacom, a subsidiary of Vodafone, is to build one of Africa’s greenest commercial buildings as a base to develop new ways of using renewable energy across Vodafone’s global networks. Based in Midrand, South Africa, the innovation centre will play an important role in helping to reduce carbon emissions through the use of renewable energy, as well as batteries. The centre will also look at how to reduce the running and deployment cost of base station sites. Findings will be shared across the Vodafone group. </description>
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<title>UK Solar PV Industry Outlook Report</title>
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<description>The UK Solar PV Industry Outlook Report on 50kW to 5 MW market, launched today by independent consultants Ernst &amp; Young, reveals that non-domestic solar could thrive in the UK without subsidy from 2017 and that solar power is providing the opportunity for new non-traditional players to enter the UK energy market, increasing competition with the utilities.  </description>
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<title>Munich: BELECTRIC presents new 2.0 MegaWattBlock</title>
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<description>On the first day of Intersolar in Munich (8 June 2011), BELECTRIC® presented the new 2.0 MegaWattBlock® for solar power plants. The 2.0 MegaWattBlock® is a standardised plant unit with nominal power of 2,000 kWp, any number of which can be combined to create larger ground-mounted solar power plants. The standardised system design, intelligent grid stabalisation technology and BELECTRIC’s many years of experience in plant engineering and construction make solar power generation more cost efficient and reliable than ever before.</description>
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<description>Technological developments in the area of photovoltaics are advancing daily. As a result, the cost of solar power is falling and new concepts are being developed for generating electricity in the future. Photovoltaics plays a major role at the world's largest exhibition for the solar industry, Intersolar Europe in Munich. From June 8–10, 2011, around 2,000 companies will showcase the latest trends and developments in this field alone, with photovoltaics once again occupying a large part of the exhibition. Approximately 300 of these companies work in both photovoltaics and solar thermal technology. In an exhibition space covering 165,000 square meters, a total of 2,200 companies from around the world will present their products and services in the areas of photovoltaics, PV production technology and solar thermal technology.</description>
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<title>UK: BIRMINGHAM TAKES THE LEAD INTO A NEW ENERGY FUTURE</title>
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<description>Cllr Paul Tilsey, Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council, welcomed delegates to the 7th International Conference entitled Generating the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Society.  He said that the price of oil keeps rising and that supplies will peak within the next fifteen to twenty years.  In that timescale, by 2026, Birmingham City Council is aiming to reduce their C02 emissions by 60%.   Birmingham is aware of its responsibilities as the second UK city. They have introduced three new local distributed energy systems and are demonstrating electric vehicles, including fuel cell cars.   Birmingham is accelerating manufacturing processes in order to bring forward fuel cell demonstrations and they look forward to leading the world into a new energy future with hydrogen and fuel cells. See the full article at Fuel Cell Power News.</description>
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<title>Electric Vehicle grant scheme</title>
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<description>Minister Rabbitte announced the opening of the Electric Vehicle grant scheme. All vehicles with CO2 emissions of less than 75g CO2 per km will be eligible for a purchase subsidy of up to €5,000. Qualifying vehicles sold after 1 January 2011 are eligible for the grant, and a total of €5m has been allocated for this purpose.</description>
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<title>UK: Lithium Battery Roadmap : Focus on Lithium ion batteries</title>
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<description>Green MotorSport started researching lithium ion cells several years ago and produced the world’s first lithium ion 12V monoblock long before anyone else had a commercial and reliable product. Over the last 5 years we have been looking very closely at the battery industry, seeking the best solution and we can now say that we have found a suitable candidate where cost, quality and energy density are concerned. Green MotorSport has mainly concentrated on drive train production and electric motor fabrication with the objective of becoming cost efficient. Alongside this development, we have been looking very closely at the battery industry and have evaluated different types of batteries, because in order to catalyze the uptake of electric cars one needs a reliable battery solution. See the full article at Green MotorSport News</description>
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<title>Fuel Cell Power No 43</title>
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<description>The future of energy is here as UTC Power delivers one of their next generation fuel cells to a residential building in New York! Fuel cells also provide clean, efficient electricity, heat and cooling for educational institutions, hospitals, manufacturing and wastewater treatment facilities, office buildings and supermarkets. Fuel cells fit in with the new low carbon energy infrastructure which is being built. They are becoming increasingly competitive as fossil fuels cover their real costs and economies of scale are achieved with larger volume manufacturing. Read the full article.</description>
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<description>Run by the Renewables Academy in Berlin, this course is aimed at those in the business, non-profit, public and academic sectors who wish to get a comprehensive introduction to renewable energy technologies, as well as those wishing to installing renewable energy systems in both urban or rural settings. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own projects. Ideal for newcomers to the industry. The course is aimed at an international audience and will be in English.  Dates: 18-20 May 2011  PDF giving course content and registrations details can be downloaded here</description>
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<title>UK: Share of the £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund</title>
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<description>Geothermal Engineering Ltd, the British company developing the UK’s first commercial-scale deep geothermal power plant, has bid for a share of the £1.4 billion Regional Growth Fund.  The fund aims to stimulate enterprise by providing support for projects and programmes with significant potential for creating long term private sector led economic growth and employment. The company plans to develop up to 30 further plants in Devon and Cornwall with the capacity to meet half of Cornwall’s current electricity demand*.  According to the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the deep geothermal resource of Cornwall alone could supply 10% of the National Grid’s baseload electricity demand**. In conjunction with the University of Exeter, a pioneering research centre into geothermal energy is also planned.  </description>
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<title>Oil majors slow to take up sustainable biofuels</title>
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<description>Big oil companies bringing biofuel to the UK market are not doing enough to ensure that it is delivering carbon savings and being produced in a sustainable manner.</description>
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<title>BC : Rollout of Smart Meters Provides Major Benefits</title>
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<description>BC Hydro, the third largest electric utility in Canada, today announced the advancement of its Smart Metering &amp; Infrastructure Program with the selection of Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services.  The three-year contract with Capgemini is worth an estimated $63 million CAD (approximately €48 million).  The Smart Metering Program, including the installation of new digital meters, is a key first step in delivering a modern electricity grid for the benefit of BC Hydro customers. </description>
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<description>On June 8 2011, the opening of Intersolar Europe will mark a special day in the history of the world's largest exhibition for the solar industry: Intersolar Europe is turning 20. Further growth is expected for the year of the anniversary. Fourteen halls and 155,000 sqm of exhibition space will be available for exhibitors and visitors, which corresponds to more than 15% growth over the previous year. From June 8 to 10, 2011, the New Munich Trade Fair Center will once again revel in the warmth of the sun as Intersolar Europe reopens its gates to the international solar technology industry. 2011 will be a special year for the world's largest exhibition for the solar industry: the year of its 20th anniversary.</description>
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<title>UK: Blackburn Rovers are energy champions!</title>
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<description>The Barclays Premier League club’s on-going commitment to ‘go green’ has produced another great result with carbon emissions down by 270,000 tonnes, saving the club around £60,000 per year. A new commercial energy efficient condensing boiler, heat recovery ventilation system and full replacement lighting system have been installed at Ewood Park following a comprehensive site audit by Preston-based GB Energy.</description>
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<title>UK: Groundbreaking energy-saving project</title>
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<description>For the first time in the UK, researchers from the University of Bath are working with RWE npower in a groundbreaking project exploring the potential energy savings of using a localised DC (Direct Current) electricity supply network.  Professor Raj Aggarwal and Dr Miles Redfern, from the University’s Department of Electronic &amp; Electrical Engineering, are leading the project that will set up 50 computers in the University library to draw their energy from a specially created local DC network.</description>
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