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United Kingdom: Green Deal home improvement scheme: the key points
2013-01-28 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: After years of planning and talking, the Green Deal, the government's flagship energy-saving scheme, is now up and running. The aim of the programme is to make our homes warmer and cheaper to run, without people having to shell out large sums of money upfront. How does it work? It's a scheme that allows people to pay for home improvements over time, through their electricity bill. The aim is that the cost of the work will be covered by the savings you'll make as a result of having the measures...
United Kingdom: SSE powers through 2GW renewables record
2013-01-28 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: SSE has set a new record for producing renewable energy, breaking the 2GW peak production mark through its fleet of wind farms and hydro stations. The utility confirmed today that its renewable energy assets generated more than 261GWh between 28 December 2012 and 4 January 2013, enough to power more than three million homes. On 28 December, more than 80 per cent of SSE's renewable energy generation capacity was feeding into the grid, with production peaking at 2.07GW, about half of which came...
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United Kingdom: Be wary of Green Deal, warns consumer watchdog
2013-01-28 10:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The initiative, to be launched by Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Ed Davey, the Energy Secretary, will allow people to borrow money to pay for insulation and other energy efficiency measures. The initial loan can be repaid via savings made from energy bills. The scheme, which is targeted at 14 million homes, is being introduced following the sharp increases in gas and electricity costs that have hit the standard of living for millions of Britons. But some experts question the...
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United Kingdom: Cumbria nuclear waste dump vote
2013-01-28 09:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Britain needs to find a site for the long-term underground storage of high-level radioactive waste. With some of it staying dangerous for up to 100,000 years, the government's agreed solution is to bury it - permanently. Three Cumbria councils are due to vote on Wednesday on whether to proceed to the next stage in the process of investigating whether such a facility would be possible - and safe - in the county. What does the government want to build? The underground storage facility would...
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United Kingdom: Green deal: the secrets of a 'warm and cosy' eco-house
2013-01-28 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: When Nigel Robinsons parents built their home on a leafy hillside in north Brighton, it was 1958, a time of low-energy costs, and the environment came rather low down on peoples to worry about list. Yet Nigels mother liked to be warm, so when his parents designed their home, Peggy Robinson insisted that all the large rooms in the house were south-facing, with large windows, to maximise solar gain. Nigel and his wife, Sally, eventually inherited his parents home, and following a few years...
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