Ambitious wind projects, including the London Array launched yesterday may need to have their output curtailed that is one of the implications of a new study launched by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) today. Read more...
This is a reminder that the closing date for our EcoHome Design competition is on the 1st of May and we would be delighted if your school would partake.
The Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) today expressed concern at the report from the Institute for Public Policy Research, ‘Green Jobs: Prospects for creating jobs from offshore wind in the UK’. Read more...
In December 2006 The Renewable Energy Foundation published the first issue of its Renewable Energy Data files (the RED Files). We are today publishing the 8th issue, which supersedes all previous versions, and adds recent generation data bringing the dataset up to September 2008. Read more...
REF Expresses Concern Regarding Cost of Grid Expansion
The Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) today expressed concern at the cost findings from the Electricity Networks Strategy Group, a government backed industry and stakeholder forum, who published their projection of electricity grid expansion needs for 2020. Read more...
REF Gives Cautious Welcome to Conservative Policy Green Paper
REF today applauded many aspects of the Conservative Green Paper, The Low Carbon Economy: Security, Stability and Green Growth, but noted that whilst it was a significant contribution to Parliamentary thinking on this topic, it shares some of the current government's lack of urgency with regard to security of supply. Read more...
On Monday in the Times newspaper Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, joined the growing consensus by stating that the UK faces an electricity capacity shortfall by 2015 unless rates of build increase. This fact, known to most analysts for at least a year, is blamed by many on a government which they believe has scandalously mismanaged the UK electricity sector. Read more...