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Homes currently heated by oil could receive incentive payments for switching to a new bio-liquid heating fuelOFTEC was instrumental in the successful campaign to include the option of using blends of bio liquids to heat buildings in the consultation paper for the proposed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which was issued by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) earlier this month. Under the proposed RHI, homes and other buildings using renewable heat technologies will qualify for regular incentive payments from OFGEM for up to 20 years after installation. For some technologies payments could be as high as £1,400 per annum for an average sized house. The UK’s 1.4 million homes currently heated by oil could be able to receive incentive payments for switching to a new bio-liquid heating fuel. The Oil Firing Technical Association (OF... [more] Renewable energy systems purchased now benefit from capital grants and incentive paymentsThere is currently a golden window of opportunity in which consumers purchasing renewable energy systems can benefit from both capital grants for the purchase of equipment, and additional incentive payments for every unit of heat or electricity produced. This ‘double-whammy’ will be short lived as the current grant system towards the purchase of systems will be phased out and replaced by a pay per unit system. From April 2010, the government strategy of ‘Feed-In tariffs’, and from April 2011 the Renewable Heat Incentives (RHI) will come into force, both designed to stimulate the uptake of renewable energy in the UK. While this is good news, it means the current grant system towards the purchase of systems will be phased out. However, unt... [more] |
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EU continues search for biofuel 'green' criteria (EurActiv)
A draft version of a European Commission communication on the EU's biofuel sustainability scheme was published by the Friends of the Earth, an environmental NGO, on its website on 3 February. The NGO said the document is highly controversial and failed to attract consensus during an inter-service consultation among the EU executive's different directorates-general (DGs). However, a Commission ...
General Motors Announces B20 Biofuel Capability for New, 2011 Duramax 6.6l Turbo Diesel (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
GM announced today that its new lineup of heavy-duty diesel pickups will have B20 biodiesel capability. B20 fuel is a blend of 20-percent biodiesel and 80-percent conventional diesel, which helps lower carbon dioxide emissions and lessens dependence on petroleum.
Ghosn's goal (BBC News)
Nissan-Renault's head plans an electric-car future
Nine O'Clock (Nine O'Clock)
Private environment provides 4.5 times more unemployed than the state field.
Another week of GW News, February 7, 2010 [A Few Things Ill Considered] (ScienceBlogs)
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
Sugar: Govt to focus on rising prices (rediff.com)
Riding on the rising price scenario, the sugar sector can hardly expect any benefit from the Union Budget 2010-11.
FSA loan program shines (AG Weekly)
BOISE, Idaho - Even in a year when dairy prices struggling to reach break-even and open potatoes prices are plummeting, Dick Rush has a smile on his face when he talks about loan programs. "We used to get farmers that couldn't get credit anywhere else," Rush said.
US Government Budget Proposals Increase Clean Energy Funding (Renewable Energy World)
President Barack Obama unveiled on February 1 a $28.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2011, including $2.36 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The proposed budget aims to reduce unnecessary energy use, boost renewable energy sources, and strengthen clean energy research as the United States moves toward a clean energy economy.
Cosan May Bid for Eni Gas Assets in Brazil, CFO Says (Update1) (BusinessWeek)
Cosan SA Industria & Comercio, the world’s largest maker of ethanol from sugar cane, may bid for Eni SpA’s Brazilian gas-distribution assets as it seeks to boost market share for service stations to sell its biofuel.
1. 25 M'sian stocks that are expected to outperform the FBM KLCI (The Star)
Standard & Poor's recently issued a comprehensive report on Malaysia and the 25 top stocks it was looking to outperform the market in the Year of the Tiger. Below is an excerpt of that report.
