Article list for September, 2010

27 September: ‘Green Ed’ Miliband

Posted in Comment on 09/27/2010 01:38 pm by Stephen Tindale

Ed Miliband was a good Energy and Climate Change Secretary, so the UK now has a ‘green’ Prime Minister, ‘green’ Energy Secretary and ‘green’ Leader of the Opposition. Now for some delivery…

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Repowering Communities case study: District heating in Sheffield and Aberdeen

Posted in Repowering communities on 09/24/2010 01:25 pm by Stephen Tindale

UK district heating schemes is an idea whose time has come. Those in Sheffield and Aberdeen are discussed in this article.

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Repowering Communities case study: Community-owned renewables in the UK

Posted in Repowering communities on 09/08/2010 05:15 am by Stephen Tindale

Community-owned renewables are quite rare in the UK, but extremely common – mainly wind farms – in Germany and Denmark. The UK is at least now moving in the right direction, albeit slowly.

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Iceland – climate and energy statistics

Posted in National and regional statistics on 09/05/2010 12:02 pm by Stephen Tindale

Key statistics on greenhouse emissions and energy sources in Iceland.

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Russia can ill-afford climate cavalierism

Posted in Policy on 09/05/2010 11:41 am by

Will the heat-wave and drought that have created so much havoc in Russia cause the leadership in that country to take climate change more seriously? The answer is important not only for Russia itself but for the world community.

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2 September 2010: Slovenia – nuclear, coal and wood

Posted in Comment on 09/02/2010 03:46 pm by Stephen Tindale

I have just returned from a trip to Slovenia. On Monday, I chaired a session on the transition to new energy at the Bled Strategic Forum, an annual event which brings together politicians, business people, NGOS and journalists. This year, the forum was about the global challenges of the next decade, so there was a lot of discussion about climate change.

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