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Solar Impulse completes Atlantic crossing with landing in Seville
The zero-fuel aeroplane, Solar Impulse, has landed in Spain, completing the Atlantic leg of its historic bid to circumnavigate the globe.
The landing in Seville marked the end of the 15th stage of Solar Impulse’s route.
Pilot Bertrand Piccard made… Continue reading
Consumers are £270million out of pocket due to billing errors
Energy bills are confusing enough for most of us, so what happens when energy suppliers make errors? Research from uSwitch has shown that 3.8 million consumers have been on the receiving end of bad billing from… Continue reading
Post Office® and Smart Energy GB team up to spread the word about smart meters
Smart Energy GB, the voice of Britain’s smart meter rollout, has today announced a partnership with Post Office®. Leaflets containing information about smart meters will be available in over 11,000 Post Office® branches from today.
Every home in Britain will… Continue reading
El Niño likely to boost CO2 in 2016
CO2 levels have been boosted by El Nino and mean the greenhouse gas is about to pass a symbolic threshold.
Twenty-sixteen will very likely mark the first time the concentration of CO2, as measured atop Hawaii’s famous Mauna Loa volcano,… Continue reading
Renewables ideal Hinkley ‘Plan B’
Conservative think-tank Bright Blue has said that renewables must be the government’s ‘Plan B’ in the event that the controversial Hinkley C nuclear power project falls through.
Bright Blue’s ‘Keeping the lights on’ report, published yesterday, profiled how it considered… Continue reading
UK solar eclipses coal power over month for first time
UK solar power produced more electricity than coal across the whole of May, the first ever month to pass the milestone, according to research by analysts at Carbon Brief. Solar panels generated 50% more electricity than the fossil… Continue reading
Feed-in Tariff cuts not the end
There have been a number of concerns raised recently about the future of community energy – with some local groups understandably worried about cuts to Feed-in Tariff rates. However Graham Ayling, Head of Energy Saving Trust Foundation, thinks its… Continue reading
March 2016 temperatures highest since 1880
The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for March 2016 was the highest for this month in the 1880–2016 record, at 1.22°C (2.20°F) above the 20th century average of 12.7°C (54.9°F). This surpassed the previous record… Continue reading
Want help in reducing your bill?
Are your energy bills a headache? Do you need help and advice in reducing your bills?
Papworth Trust are offering free advice and support to help Harborough residents reduce their energy bills
Reduce lost heat
Heat smartly
Condensation control
Switch… Continue reading
Scientists compare climate change impacts at 1.5C and 2C
Half a degree makes a very big difference when judging how different parts of the world will feel the effects of climate change.