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1. Ofgem and Government make it easier for local electricity generators to supply communities around them, so increasing energy efficiency
2. Encouraging more local green generators to connect to public networks could help lower emissions and protect customers
3. New planning regulations encourage development of more green electricity generation
(ofgem) - Energy regulator Ofgem and Government have launched final proposals to make it easier for community electricity generators to supply customers. While protecting consumer rights to switch supplier, the proposals will help local generators operate in the competitive market, thus giving their customers more choice.
(AP) — Faced with record-high oil prices, the world's leading economies and oil consumers Sunday pledged greater investment in energy efficiency and green technologies to control their spiraling thirst for petroleum.
(EnergyCurrent) - At a meeting in Aomori, Japan, last weekend, the Group of Eight industrial powers (G8) have agreed to launch 20 large carbon capture storage (CCS) and demonstration projects by 2010.
(TIMESONLINE) - The world must undergo a "new global energy revolution" and faces a huge bill of $45 trillion (£22 trillion) if it is to halve carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.
The agency adds that the coming revolution will depend on sweeping changes to the electricity and motor industries, with 215 million sq m of solar panels needing to be "planted" across the globe and a billion electric or hybrid cars required.
(THE INDEPENDET) - Governments around the world must spend $45 trillion (£23trn) if they are to halve carbon emissions by 2050, according to a leading energy watchdog, as it called for an "energy revolution". If current policies are maintained, CO2 emissions will more than double, The International Energy Agency (IEA) warned.
(iea) - "The world faces the daunting combination of surging energy demand, rising greenhouse gas emissions and tightening resources. A global energy technology revolution is both necessary and achievable; but it will be a tough challenge", said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in Tokyo, at the launch of the latest edition of Energy technology Perspectives (ETP).
(YubaNet) - Today's publication of the International Energy Agency's (IEA) latest energy forecast, to coincide with the start of the G8 Energy Ministers meeting, should be welcomed for its recognition that half the world's energy could be supplied by renewable sources by 2050 should be welcomed said Greenpeace. However, the IEA's vision of increasing nuclear power by a factor of four and relying on carbon capture and storage to meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets should be rejected as an expensive and dangerous distraction.
(defra) - New vision of climate change through Google Earth Millions of Google Earth users around the world will be able to see how climate change could affect the planet and its people over the next century, along with viewing the loss of Antarctic ice shelves over the last 50 years, thanks to a new project launched today.
(Linkages) - Delegates to the sixteenth session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16), which is meeting in New York from 5-16 May 2008, have highlighted links between the session?s thematic cluster of issues and the current food crisis and climate change. The session is reviewing the issues of agriculture, rural development, land, drought, desertification and Africa.
(Claeys&Casteels) - In summary, the Committee voted yesterday evening to approve the Commission's proposed electricity Directive, but has proposed amendments on the following key issues: On unbundling, ITRE voted that ownership unbundling of vertically integrated companies (carrying out both generation/sales and transmission) be...
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