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After last week's article in this newsletter highlighting the planned protest action at Hinkley Point on March 10th (see you there?) a few people contacted LCCN saying are we /should we be anti-nuclear? At the moment we don't have a way for LCCN to make decisions on such issues ...
LCCN is carrying out this survey on behalf of the Communities and Climate Action Alliance, in order to get an understanding of how those working on the Green Deal are going forward. Thanks to all those of you who contacted us from last week's newsletter; the survey will be ...
Hot on the heels of the 22GW of solar power ‘ambition' is a new report from the Parliamentary Energy and Climate Change Committee that calls on the government to establish long term goals for marine energy. It also suggests that the UK could become a leading exporter of wave and ...
Inner London's first co-operatively owned solar power station has launched. They say:
"Brixton Energy Solar 1 is a new Co-operative set up to enable local people to invest in renewable energy generation in Brixton and raise funds for energy efficiency initiatives. :Have a look at the website, read the prospectus ...
Those of you who attended the annual conference in January may have noted the lack of any formal ‘AGM' style business or elections to the Management Group. As we said then, we would hold a separate AGM; this will now take place on April 17th -venue tba.
This will also be ...
Under 1 month to go until Climate Week! - 12 to 18 March 2012
Britain's biggest climate change campaign is ramping up for another supercharged national
occasion to celebrate and catalyse action against climate change. The Climate Week 2012 events
map is already displaying over 700 events registered to take place across the ...
Somebody once said ‘if you think you understand it, you're not paying attention'. There is still a lot of uncertainty about the Green Deal, how it will work and, most importantly from our view point, how it will work for community organisations. In cooperation with other organisations within the ...
Most of our members will be aware that DECC have announced new developments and the next stage of consultation around Feed-In Tariffs. If you are actively involved in community energy work then you should certainly stay up to date on this - key documents are all at: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/meeting_energy/Renewable_ener/feedin_tariff/feedin_tariff.aspx
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More renewable energy was installed in the EU in 2011 than ever before but coal-sourced power increased at a faster rate than was decommissioned, according to a new report.
In 2011, 9,616 MW of wind capacity was installed in the EU, making a total of 93,957 MW - enough to supply ...
The full set of 242 community energy projects funded by DECC to the tune of £10M through the LEAF programme is now out - check out http://ceo.decc.gov.uk/ and they are all on an interactive map at http://www.communitymaps.org.uk/Departmentofenergyandclimatechange.
Even if you were not involved it's worth a look and a quick ...
