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United Kingdom: Government Figures Show Renewables Breaking New Records and Electricity Bills Coming Down

2016-04-03 18:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: New official figures released today highlight the record performance of renewable energy over the past year. Renewables are playing a central role in powering Britains homes, business and factories and fuel bills are falling. The data, from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, show that in 2015 a record 24.7% of the UKs electricity was generated from renewable sources an increase of 5.6% on 2014. The amount of electricity generated by wind increased by 26%, so that overall wind energy...

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S&P 500 breaks seven-quarter run of dividend records

2016-04-01 17:57:17| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

S&P 500 companies have broken a seven-quarter streak of record dividend payments, largely due to reductions by energy companies including ConocoPhillips . The first-quarter's $11.04 per share payment for the S&P 500 in aggregate is down from $11.35 a share in the fourth quarter, which was the seventh quarter in a row of record payments, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices released on Wednesday.

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London Hydrogen Network Expansion project sets two new FCEV records

2016-03-22 10:55:58| Green Car Congress

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Australian Climate Council calls for urgent action as records tumble

2016-03-19 20:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Record hot spells in Australia this month blurred the line between summer and autumn in another sign of rapidly advancing global warming, a Climate Council report says. The first four days of March saw maximum temperatures in much of the country 4C above average and 8C to 12C above average in most of southeastern Australia the report said. Despite summer being over, the New South Wales/Victorian border towns of Echuca and Tocumwal suffered the longest, hottest spell in their recorded history,...

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