The government-owned UK Green Investment Bank (GIB) has unveiled new plans to raise a £1 billion fund that will encourage private investors to support Britain’s offshore...
After a nine-year wait, construction has begun on a new community-owned hydroelectricity plant on the river Gynack at Kingussie, in the Scottish Highlands. The Kingussie Community...
BT has announced a £300m deal to buy a Scottish wind farm, which will go some way to helping the telecommunications giant achieve its goal of...
Roland Aurich, chief executive of Siemens UK, on sustainability, renewable energy and why the northern city of Hull is central to its future plans. The people...
Impax Asset Management, a specialist in resource optimisation and environmental investment, has announced its intention to expand its business to the US west coast, with the...
Renewable energy supplier Good Energy has revealed 2013 saw its customer base increase by 32% and its pre-tax profits more than double to £3.3m in 2013,...
The government’s latest energy statistics reveal that the production of renewable electricity in the UK increased by 3.5 percentage points in 2013, with renewables now accounting...
Green energy company Triodos Renewables has expanded its renewable energy portfolio with the acquisition of a 55% stake in a Cambridgeshire wind farm. The five-turbine Boardinghouse...
A leading European wind energy developer has become the first company to purchase an innovative mobile application that helps “visualise” turbines on site. VentusAR, which was...
The sustainable investment industry has called on George Osborne’s autumn statement to show an awareness of long-term megatrends such as climate change and resource scarcity while...
New roads and housing developments require “trade-offs” between economic and environmental benefits, the environment secretary Owen Paterson has said. Biodiversity offsetting – where infrastructure developers commit...
Broadcast from the beautiful Cornish town of St Austell, two leading renewable energy suppliers got a mention on Question Time, the BBC’s flagship political debate programme, on...
The majority of Britons (70.1%) would be happy to have a wind farm constructed in their local area, according to a poll commissioned by the Mail...
Have you ever felt that you’re too small or insignificant to do something about global warming? Have you ever been told that there’s nothing you, as...
Reading the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) feels rather as Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors must have felt in the 1993...