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Renewable Power for Low Carbon Business

This group is dedicated to the generation of zero or low-carbon heat and power by businesses, communities ...

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Renewable Power for Low Carbon Business

This group is dedicated to the generation of zero or low-carbon heat and power by businesses, communities and individuals, to meet some or all of their needs.

Low or zero-carbon technologies can be used to describe both embedded power generation (larger installations for industry or commerce) as well as small scale generation (typically below 50kW devices). All these technologies are seen as critical to achieving significant reduction targets.

The aim of the group is to understand experience of, and barriers and opportunities for these technologies. This network may address issues such as:

- What are the impacts of changes in policy frameworks ?
- How are these technologies best managed?
- How can they be financed?
- How do you evaluate and compare data from different manufacturers?


       
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Group Members Include:

  • Stephen Tordoff

    Renewable Energy Engineer
    Iberdrola Renewables

  • Colin Bower

    Director
    Phoenix Fuels Ltd

  • joseph kwasnik

    head of climate change
    national grid

  • Michael Krepinevich

    Eng
    Siemens Energy Inc


       
       

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3 Feb. 2010
OFGEM: Project Discovery - Options for delivering secure and sustainable energy supplies

This document seeks feedback on the findings of our appraisal of the current arrangements and on the policy packages we have developed to address the risks and issues identified in relation to the delivery of secure and sustainable energy supplies.

13 Jan. 2010
Biomethane into the Gas Network: A Guide for Producers (DECC)

Guidance to inform operators of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants of the legal, technical and regulatory requirements of injecting biogas into Britain's gas grid has been published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

15 Dec. 2009
GGND: Global Green New Deal proposed by UNDESA in Copenhagen

This UNDESA document is a proposed strategy to accelerate deployment of renewable energy worldwide - first presented in Copenhagen this week.

A Global Green New Deal for Climate, Energy, and Development 
 
A big push strategy to 

Drive down the cost of renewable energy 
Ramp up deployment in developing countries 
End energy poverty 
Contribute to economic recovery and growth 
Generate employment in all countries  
and  
Help avoid dangerous climate change.

13 Dec. 2009
Ennovent Challenge Brief - Advancing Change: Energy for India's Poor

Most of India’s population has no access to affordable, let alone clean energy. Help us discover from around theworld the most beneficial for-profit solution to provide renewable energy to India’s rural poor. ennovent will invest up to USD 500,000 in the Solver. We'll also reward the Connector with USD 3,000.

10 Dec. 2009
Access to Energy for the Base of the Pyramid October 2009

1.6 billion people do not have access to electricity. 3 billion people still use traditional biomass forcooking. This has serious consequences on the affected populations in terms of health, education,well-being, or development.As major stakeholders in the energy sector and the development of energy-based products andservices, Total, Schneider Electric and GDF SUEZ each have respective ways of getting involved.Together they have decided to share their analysis of the issue, and to devise new possible formsof action in that realm.Those three corporations jointly entrusted Hystra, in collaboration with the international network ofsocial entrepreneurs Ashoka, to conduct a study regarding different projects allowing energy accessto poor sections of the population from developing countries — mostly initiatives started by localentrepreneurs.Focused on energy access projects for the most underprivileged sections of the population (BOP,Base of the Pyramid), the work consisted in an in-depth field study including on-site visits,interviews of the relevant parties, as well as workshops for evaluation and experience sharing.What is revealed through that study?First, it appears that the gap between the social and the economic realms is not unbridgeable, as itis possible to both take into account social-related issues (in our case, access to energy) and createeconomically sustainable companies that meet with the demand of those "markets", that aresometimes seen as insolvent prior to examination.

7 Dec. 2009
Verdantix CASE STUDY: Drax Group's Big Biomass Strategy

This is a complimentary copy of a case study report from independent analyst firm, Verdantix, published January 2009. Drax Group, the operator of Europe’s largest coal-fired power station, has diversified its power generation business into biomass. By mid-2010 the firm expects to have 500MW of co-fired coal/biomass generation capacity. The firm is investing £2 billion to build three 300MW dedicated biomass generation facilities with a target operational date of 2014. The carrots and sticks of climate change policy have driven the business logic behind the investment plans. In the first half or 2008 Drax Group paid out £108 million to acquire EU Emissions Trading scheme compliance credits. The UK’s Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) also underpin the business case. Drax Group faces new risks to scale up a sustainable biomass supply chain. For more research on biomass please consult the Verdantix website http://www.verdantix.com/

1 Dec. 2009
Renewable energy 'could provide 6% of UK's needs by 2020'

Friends of the Earth says solar panels and wind turbines could proliferate if government improves the incentive. Solar panels on the roof of a house. FoE says renewable energy could provide 6% of Britain's needs by 2020.

Small-scale renewable energy could provide 6% of Britain's electricity needs – equivalent to more than two Sizewell B nuclear stations or the Drax coal-fired plant – by 2020 if the government improves the terms of a new deal for producers due to be launched next April, Friends of the Earth says today.

The environmental campaign group used figures obtained from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and prepared by consultants Poyry and Element Energy to show that introducing a more ambitious scheme than that currently proposed would add only an average £2.37 a year to household electricity bills over the next four years – just £1.20 a year more than the government is already proposing to add to fund the scheme.

28 Nov. 2009
203 MW Wind Farm Completed in Utah

It's great to see some of the large wind farm projects that were just ideas a couple of years ago become reality. First Wind's Milford Wind Corridor project has just seen the completion of its first phase - 203.5 MW in Millard and Beaver Counties in Utah, the largest renewable energy facility in the state.

Construction on the wind farm began almost exactly a year ago.  Over the next few years, the wind corridor will expand to include four more phases totaling over 1 GW of wind energy capacity.

http://ecogeek.org/wind-power/2997

28 Nov. 2009
Action on Climate Change Delayed: Copenhagen Won't be Binding, Congress Won't Pass Bill This Year

As reports have indicated for the past several weeks, a binding agreement won't be reached in Copenhagen this December.  Leaders attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation this past weekend met and decided that the Copenhagen conference would be used to come up with an interim "politically" binding agreement and to set a date and time for a legally binding one sometime next year.

http://ecogeek.org/preventing-pollution/2998

http://www.nytimes.com/2009...e/earth/16climate.html?_r=1

this weekend in Singapore, Mr. Obama was forced to acknowledge that a comprehensive climate deal was beyond reach this year. Instead, he and other world leaders agreed that they would work toward a more modest interim agreement with a promise to renew work toward a binding treaty next year.

18 Nov. 2009
Recorded webcast: Planning for renewable energy

Rosalind Packham, Manches

This recorded webinar presentation discusses how to plan for renewable energy investments and projects - the legal and policy framework to take into consideration in the UK, future likely legislation and the planning process. Once you have listened to the presentation, please add any questions for Rosalind or comments on the UK's renewable energy planning process below.