Full Coverage: Renewable energy

25.04.2008 Certification alone cannot guarantee that agrofuels are being produced sustainably. 'Sustainability' is being used as a smokescreen, shows a new report (PDF).
From: Friends of the Earth Europe

23.04.2008 Climate change, the oil industry, and the construction of the world's largest dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo must be prioritized by African and U.S. leaders to support sustainable development on the continent, says a new report released on Earth Day.

23.04.2008 MPs have been urged by campaigners to support a crucial amendment to the Energy Bill which would encourage householders, businesses and communities to produce their own renewable energy.

22.04.2008 Amid growing concern over global food insecurity, Kimberly Ann Elliott urges the U.S. government to cut subsidies for biofuel production, "one of the few policy levers available in the short run to relieve demand pressures."

21.04.2008 The European commission is backing away from its insistence on imposing a compulsory 10% quota of biofuels in all petrol and diesel by 2020.
From: The Guardian

15.04.2008 Two companies are starting a new project to use carbon dioxide emissions from cement manufacture to make biodiesel... with a little help from some microorganisms.
From: AutoblogGreen

14.04.2008 Scientists tasked with advising the European Union's policy-makers have called for a target on promoting the greater use of biofuels to be dropped.

14.04.2008 Almost nine out of ten Britons have no idea that biofuels will be added to their petrol from from 15 April.

12.04.2008 Global wind power capacity rose 27 percent in 2007 to more than 94,100 megawatts, with Germany remaining the world leader.

09.04.2008 Europe's largest onshore wind farm has begun operation south of Glasgow.
From: The Herald

08.04.2008 E.ON is pushing forward with plans for a new wind farm off the Yorkshire Coast.

06.04.2008 The UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has called for a comprehensive review of the policy on biofuels as a crisis in global food prices - partly caused by the increasing use of crops for energy generation - threatens to trigger global instability.
From: The Guardian

05.04.2008 Eigg, an island off the west coast of Scotland, has switched on its own continuous, clean, and renewable energy supply.

01.04.2008 UK energy minister John Hutton 'has been caught trying to sabotage the EU renewable energy targets'.