Www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/355255/uk-wave-and-tidal-key-resource-areas-project.pdf. Westmill Solar. Big Society Capital. Homepage. Government defends £400m energy and climate budget underspend | Environment. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has defended a £400m budget underspend from last year, after concerns were raised by some green businesses that the government had cut back unnecessarily on climate change spending. According to a new Treasury report, DECC failed to spend nearly 14 per cent of its 2011/12 budget, representing the largest proportional underspend of any government department. In total, government departments cut their spending by £6.7bn more than was planned last year, meaning government spending fell by 5.2 per cent in real terms between 2010-11 and 2011-12, instead of the expected 3.5 per cent drop. The largest under-spender was the NHS, which saved £1.7bn.
However, DECC emerged as the department that underspent the largest proportion of its budget. The news is likely to prompt criticism that DECC's programme of cuts, which saw slashed budgets for bodies such as the Carbon Trust and the Energy Savings Trust, was more wide-ranging than necessary. DECC polling shows people still worried about energy bills, support renewable energy.
09 Jul 2012, 17:15Ros Donald According to new survey figures, the rising cost of energy is still a major concern in the UK, keeping energy bills high on the political agenda. But efforts by some political sources and media outlets, attempts to blame higher consumer energy bills on renewables subsidies - ignoring rising gas prices - don't seem to have resonated with the public. Research company TNS UK interviewed 2,121 people about energy and climate issues during March this year for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)'s Public Attitudes survey. The idea was to gauge how the public sees what DECC calls its main "business priorities" - goals such as energy efficiency, improving the UK's energy infrastructure and increasing the amount of energy we generate from low carbon sources. The results show that despite high profile media campaigns against so-called green taxes, 79 per cent of people surveyed support renewable energy for providing electricity, fuel and heat.
Wiltshire council votes for tough new planning restrictions for windfarms | Environment. West Mill wind turbines, Watchfield, Wiltshire. The council has passed a policy that would effectively ban new turbines. Photograph: Stan Green/Alamy A revolt in the shires against windfarms has begun with Wiltshire council passing a policy that would effectively ban new turbines above 25 metres, following a similar move by Lincolnshire in June. But the move by the Conservative-controlled Wiltshire council was denounced by the Liberal Democrat opposition as a "small-minded political stunt" and by campaigners as an "ambush".
A new national opinion poll on Tuesday shows support for windfarms has dropped from 75% in 2008 to 58% in June, with opposition doubling to 18% over the same period. The motion passed by Wiltshire council would ban the erection of turbines within three kilometres of a home for turbines taller than 150m and two kilometres for those over 100m. "I was very disappointed that anyone voted against it," said councillor Toby Sturgis, cabinet member for the environment. After Effects Projects, Motion Graphics, C4D Templates. Mapping for Change. Permitted development rights for small scale renewable and low carbon energy technologies, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure consultation: Government response - Planning, building and the environment.
Wind Turbines (Minimum Distance from Residential Premises) Bill [HL] 2012-13. Wind Turbines (Minimum Distances from Residential Premises) Bill [HL] Www.decc.gov.uk/assets/decc/Consultations/fits-review/4311-feed-in-tariff-scheme-phase-2b-consultation-docume.pdf. Local Groups: South Hams. Support renewable energy projects : Local solutions to climate change : Climate Change. COLUMN-European power prices must rise: Gerard Wynn. Www.nationalgrid.com/NR/rdonlyres/DF928C19-9210-4629-AB78-BBAA7AD8B89D/47178/Operatingin2020_finalversion0806_final.pdf.
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