TAG: Solar energy
Net zero meets the NIMBYs: Inside the battle for the UK’s biggest solar farm
EYNSHAM VILLAGE HALL, OXFORDSHIRE, England — On a winter afternoon, dozens of local residents pour into a drafty village hall, tucked away in the picturesque English countryside. They wear thick coats and skeptical frowns, and are here to fight plans to b...
6 months ago
Paris to everyone: Buy French solar panels, forget all competitors
PARIS ― France wants everyone buying French solar panels — and it's not being subtle. "I call on big decision-makers, energy companies and solar parks developers … to massively resort to 'Made in France' panels," France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire s...
6 months ago
Heartland Tories in solar scrap to save their seats
LONDON — Conservative MPs, months out from a general election and lagging badly behind their Labour opponents, are in the fight of their lives.Polls suggests they could even collapse into a squabbling rump of fewer than 100 MPs.And one potential contribut...
5 months ago
Top Tory MP warns over government green targets
LONDON — The government faces “enormous challenges” to decarbonize the energy system by its 2035 target, a leading Conservative MP said.The 2035 goal is “just about doable if everything goes right — and it rarely does in government,” said MP Philip Dunne,...
4 months ago
Labour energy chief Ed Miliband faces local solar backlash
DONCASTER, England — If the polls are correct, Ed Miliband will be U.K. energy secretary by Friday, overseeing Labour’s ambitious push to back clean energy projects like solar and wind farms all over the country.But in a hint of the challenges ahead for a...
2 months ago
Leaked: Tense correspondence between EU commissioner hopefuls and Parliament
STRASBOURG — Twenty-three commissioner nominees who were asked for additional information regarding assets during their European Parliament screenings were approved Thursday morning, despite many of them returning sparse conflict-of-interest forms.Some fr...
6 days ago