renewable energy association News
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Clarke Energy short-listed for REA Awards 2014
Clarke Energy has once more been short-listed for the British Renewable Energy Awards 2014 this time under the Innovation category. A total of 39 companies has been short-listed under 12 categories. In 2013 Clarke Energy was short-listed for the skills development award. The Renewable Energy Associations annual awards will take place on the 12th June at the Savoy Hotel in London. Clarke Energy ...
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Want a competitive Europe? Embrace renewables
One day ahead of the European Heads of States and Governments’ discussions on the 2030 climate and energy framework proposals, the European renewable energy associations jointly call on EU leaders to fully grasp the long-term benefits of an ambitious nationally binding EU renewable energy target. The European economy is exposed to volatile fossil fuel prices and insecure fossil fuel ...
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Winner Business of the Year
Clarke Energy has been named as ‘Business of the Year >250 Employees’ in the Liverpool Echo Regional Business Awards 2014. The event took place at St George’s Hall in Liverpool on the 3rd of July 2014 and was sponsored by DLA Piper and KPMG. This year’s Regional Business Awards ran alongside the International Festival for Business, with Liverpool being a focus of ...
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World Renewable Energy Community presents Global Renewable Energy Solutions Showcase on the occasion of COP23 in Bonn (7-8 November 2017)
Leading global, European and German Renewable Energy Associations invite the global climate community to attend the first ever Global Renewable Energy Solutions Showcase event (GRESS), held on 7 and 8 November in Bonn, in the direct vicinity and in parallel with the UN Climate Change Conference COP23. The event has been endorsed by the global, European and German renewable energy associations, ...
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Biogas CHP webinar
Clarke Energy in collaboration with GE Power & Water, the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) and the Renewable Energy Association will be delivering a webinar on Biogas CHP – New Technologies, New Policy & Markets on the 28th November at 10am GMT. The free webinar will incorporate a look at new technological developments including to efficiency improvements to ...
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Canadian Renewable Energy Association Highlights Value of Energy Storage
The Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) this week released an agenda-setting paper on energy storage in Canada, authored by CanREA's Director of Energy Storage, Leonard Olien. Entitled "Laying the Foundation: Six priorities for supporting the decarbonization of Canada's electricity grid with energy storage," this new whitepaper outlines CanREA's perspective on what is required to ...
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DECC to review its policy on grandfathering for biomass
The government has said it will “look again” at its support for biomass electricity under the Renewables Obligation following significant concerns about investment. As reported in MRW, the renewable energy industry has expressed worry over the absence of the ‘grandfathering’ principle for Renewable Obligation Certificates in relation to biomass facilities. Without grandfathering financiers are ...
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Micro Grid Focus 2013 Will Focus on Asia’s Islands on June 27-28 in Hainan, China
Renewable Energy Association of Hainan Province and CBI BIZ announced a call for papers, and will raise special symposium topics for the Micro Grid Focus 2013. The conference is scheduled for June 27th-28th at Pullman Sanya Bay Resort & Spa in Sanya City of China’s island province Hainan. Gathering senior engineers and managing directors, the Micro Grid Focus 2013 will cover microgrid ...
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AD at the “forefront” for coalition
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an issue which is “very much at the forefront” of the coalition government’s minds, according to the Minister of State for Energy. Speaking at an event in London organised by the Renewable Energy Association (REA), Renewable Energy; Is the UK on Track?, Charles Hendry told the audience that AD will be a key to ensuring the UK meets its EU targets on renewable energy. ...
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New guidelines to assess the potential for biomass and other renewables in the English regions
Biomass development in the English regions could be set to increase following the release of new guidelines from the Department of Energy and Climate Change designed to aid regional authorities in assessing their potential for renewable energy. The guidelines should help the English regions, of which there are nine, set themselves ambitious renewable targets in their new regional strategies. ...
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Clarke Energy is British Renewable Energy Awards Finalist
Clarke Energy has been announced as a finalist in the Renewable Energy Association’s British Renewable Energy Awards. Clarke Energy has been shortlisted for the Skills Development Award which is for an organisation that has ‘excelled in improving the skills base in the industry‘. Clarke Energy is a specialist in the engineering, installation and maintenance of gas-fueled power ...
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REA reveals proposals to be included in DECC consultation on biomass financing
The proposals set to be included in the Department for Energy and Climate Change consultation on the financing of renewables plants have been revealed by the Renewable Energy Association. The REA has said the proposals will be as follows: Energy from waste and anaerobic digestion will be grandfathered in the pure sense For biomass the capital costs will be grandfathered, but the fuel element ...
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Energy action plan deadline looming for new coalition
The renewables industry is warning that the coalition government must act quickly to clarify its policy on renewable energy given that it has to submit its action plan on the UK Renewable Energy Strategy to the European Commission on June 30. As yet, there has been no further clarification around the subsidising of renewable energy facilities through the Renewable Obligation Certificates (ROCs) ...
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UK Green Gas Day 2019
Clarke Energy will be exhibiting at UK Green Gas Day 2019 (formerly UK Biomethane Day), taking place on 8th May at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham. The Renewable Energy Association (REA) have been running Biomethane Day since 2012, the event is the largest gathering in the gas-to-grid industry. The focus of UK Green Gas Day 2019 will be to brief the industry on policy and ...
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Consultation on biomass grandfathering expected imminently
A consultation document on renewable obligation grandfathering in relation to biomass is expected before the end of next week, according to the Renewable Energy Association. It is expected that the document, issued by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, will form part of the Budget announcement. As reported previously in MRW, the renewable energy industry has expressed ongoing concern ...
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Auspicious timing for biomass company launch
A biomass energy company has picked an auspicious time to launch following the proposal of Government backed incentives to boost renewable energy use. Talbott’s Biomass Generators launched, out of existing company Talbott’s Biomass Energy Systems, with a 50 per cent stake investment from Air Plants Dust Extraction. The new company will be a separate power division providing combined heat and ...
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Next government will be “crucial” for delivering on renewables targets
The next Government will be “crucial” for determining whether or not the UK achieves its 15% renewable energy target by 2020, according to the Renewable Energy Association (REA). Currently the UK produces only 2.3% of its total energy from renewable sources such as biomass and anaerobic digestion, and has been one of the poorest performers on delivering renewable to date. But the Renewable ...
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No mention of Biomass or AD by energy minister or his shadow spokesmen
Anaerobic Digestion and biomass were not discussed as favoured methods of renewable energy in an energy and climate change debate attended by the secretary of state for energy and climate change and his two contemporaries from the other main political parties. The debate, Ask the Ministers: Energy and Climate Change, held in London last night, saw the three main political parties clash over ...
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Oyster® Wave Power Device wins Innovator of the Year 2009
Aquamarine Power (“Aquamarine”) has been celebrated as a leading force in the UK’s renewable energy sector, winning the coveted ‘Innovator Award 2009’ for its market leading Oyster® wave energy converter at this year’s British Renewable Energy Awards. Aquamarine competed against seven other shortlisted nominees to win the award which honours outstanding excellence in innovative features of ...
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Clean Power East Africa to show region’s renewable energy potential in Nairobi in August
“Project developers, funders, support organisations and others are not interacting enough to reap the synergies possible in the clean power market in East Africa” says Wim Jonker Klunne, renewable energy expert and the conference chairman of the inaugural Clean Power East Africa conference that is taking place as part of EAPIC in Nairobi in August. “I see a lot of developments ...
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