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My biomass breakfast or how I learned to love wood pellets

Have you ever witnessed the delivery of wood pellets to an on-site boiler? I thought not. Well, you are fortunate that your blogger here was invited to a “Cool Heating Biomass Breakfast” at the Maidenhead Rugby Club, no less, not to view some rugged males battling it out but to hear fro ...

Posted 23 June 2011 by Elizabeth Block

tags: biomass , bioenergy

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Will the oil shock translate into "banker shock..."?

I was just about to write about the soaring oil price, due mainly to the turmoil in Libya and other oil-producing countries, along with the threat of revolt spreading to Saudi Arabia, when an email came in from Jeremy Leggett, the famous oil man turned solar guru. Here in Britain, the last few week ...

Posted 08 March 2011 by Elizabeth Block

tags: oil , solar

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Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven? BBC feature foreshadows early FIT review The BBC’s Newsnight is one of Britain’s most respected TV news programmes, and its main presenter, Jeremy Paxman, is famous for his ferocious interviewing style. So when I heard that solar energy was to be featured on 3rd Feb ...

Posted 08 February 2011 by Elizabeth Block

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Why did I not make the Zayed Prize shortlist...?

As your hard-working blogger, I thought that I would surely have made the Top 40 list for the Zayed Future Energy Prize, the biggest environmental prize on the planet. In fact, I was not even nominated but I hope you will all do better next year. How big is the grand prize, you ask? Well, it’ ...

Posted 16 December 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: zayed future energy prize , renewable energy , world future energy summit

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Can global knowledge transfer speed grid parity?

What happens when Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, drops in to Australia’s first carbon-neutral office building to meet Prime Minister Julia Gillard? While they might have exchanged a few private words about the exhilaration of smashing glass ceilings, the topic of the day was not women ...

Posted 22 November 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: solar , pv , csp , cost , innovation

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Leaks and politics enliven EFEF

Wow, another big conference in London. This time it’s the 2nd annual European Future Energy Forum, a Masdar-sponsored event that had its debut in Bilbao last year. And it lasts three whole days. So we have 3713 registered delegates, though fewer than 900 actually attended, and 112 speakers (m ...

Posted 27 October 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: renewable energy , Zayed Future Energy Prize , feed-in tariff , budget

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Who says there's no early money...?

Who says there’s no early money…? On Monday, 27 September, I went to Cambridge for the launch of the Low Carbon Innovation Fund (LCIF). This new fund has been set up by the Low Carbon Innovation Centre at the University of East Anglia with £8 million splashed out by the European ...

Posted 01 October 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: funding , investment , renewable energy

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How much to install PV on a royal roof...?

How much to install PV on a royal roof? Wow, big news: HRH The Prince of Wales has got consent to install 32 solar panels on the 123 ft2 roof of Grade II-listed Clarence House. In late August 2010, nationals such as the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Independent gave this major development ...

Posted 13 September 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: solar , pv , fit

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AltaTerra FiT freak gives web conference

Rats! I missed it. I planned to dial in to Palo Alto-based AltaTerra’s web conference last month on feed-in tariffs (FiT) but it started at 2pm eastern time, 7pm here. Events, dear e-reader, got in the way. Of course, it was no problem as it’s almost impossible to “miss” any ...

Posted 03 September 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: FiT , solar , pv , feed-in tariff

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What does it take to bring you your solar news...?

Following an April 2010 visit to Syria in which I became the first, OK, maybe the second person on the planet to express any interest in Syrian renewable energy, a local Arabic-speaking friend in Damascus emailed me that a notice had gone up at the Japanese Embassy there: a whopping $6 million to go ...

Posted 03 September 2010 by Elizabeth Block

tags: solar , syria , renewable energy

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