The Carbon Trust is an independent company funded by Government. Our role is to help the UK move to a low carbon economy by helping business and the public sector reduce carbon emissions now and capture the commercial opportunities of low carbon technologies
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Why the costs of wave and tidal power could soon plummet - viewpoint from Dr Stephen Wyatt, Head of Technology Acceleration, Carbon TrustAs the marine industry gathers in London for its annual get ...
How can the UK meet its future energy needs? Tom Delay, CEO of the Carbon Trust, looks at how we can solve the problem with our energy future.The future of nuclear power in the UK looks well and ...
For most of us power from the sea means watching waves crashing on a beach or smashing up against a breakwater. But if you want to experience wave power at its most energetic then you need to be ...
Viewpoint from Jason Eis, Senior Strategy Manager, Carbon TrustIn the face of a fragile economic recovery and ambitious emissions targets, there is a pressing need to find opportunities that marry ...
With rising fuel prices putting households under pressure, Helen Andrews Tipper, Public Sector Energy Programmes Manager, explains how decentralised energy schemes provide an alternative solutionHow ...
Jeff Beyer is our man in Doha, representing the Carbon Trust at a number of events taking place alongside the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, and reporting back with his own perspective on what is taking place.
Day Two: Sustainable energy systems and the `World Energy Trilemma`
The production and use of energy are at the heart of the climate challenge. I attended a talk hosted by the World Energy Council (WEC) that focused on what they termed the `World Energy Trilemma`. Their `trilemma`...
The Carbon Trust`s Head of Technology Acceleration, Dr Stephen Wyatt, will be answering your questions on marine energy on Wednesday 3 October. Follow @theCarbonTrust and ask questions in advance using the hashtag #AskCarbon.
Have you ever wondered how the power of waves and the tides are being harnessed to produce electricity? The UK has an abundant marine energy resource that could produce over 10% of the UK`s forecast electricity needs in 2050.
As the Carbon Trust`s Head of Technology Acceleration Dr Stephen...
Whitbread among first to sign up for new Carbon Trust tool targeting £500m savings on energy and waste. Employees could save UK businesses and public bodies £500m and two million tonnes of CO2 – equivalent to the annual carbon emissions of all the households in Birmingham – thanks to a new, online office tool called ‘Carbon Trust Empower™ launched today by the Carbon Trust.By engaging employees in cutting energy use, paper waste and travel, Carbon Trust Empower has the potential...
DONG Energy and the UK Carbon Trust, through its Offshore Wind Accelerator programme (OWA), have reached an agreement to collaborate. OWA has awarded DONG Energy GBP 6 million (DKK 54 million) to co-fund full scale demonstration of a new offshore wind turbine foundation called the Suction Bucket Jacket.
DONG Energy targets to drive down cost of electricity by 40 per cent for projects sanctioned in 2020. Technical innovation in key areas such as foundations is critical to meet this target. The Suction Bucket...
The world can save an estimated US$550 billion on the cost of deploying clean energy technologies over the next decade, putting them on a path to cost competitiveness, if countries work together to accelerate innovation by unlocking global collaboration. This is one of the key findings in a new report, United Innovations: cost-competitive clean energy through global collaboration, published today by the Carbon Trust, with funding from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Prosperity Fund.
While most of the...
