In early 2007 - 12 years ago - the then-CEO of Tesco pledged to put labels on the company's 70,000+ products showing the carbon emissions associated with them. As someone who worked with carbon accounting under a government renewable scheme (the RHI) I can understand how difficult a process this can be. There are numerous … Continue reading Carbon Counting – Orange Juice to Olive Oil
Gas comes full circle
[Featured image source] Town gas - then and now The Empire Exhibition was held in Wembley, 1924, North London. In a poster advertising that exhibition, the muck and soot of coal was transformed into a clean and glowing figure of a healthy man - representing natural gas. As recent as 60-odd years ago, British society … Continue reading Gas comes full circle
A record 90% of new power capacity in the EU was renewable last year
In figures recently released by WindEurope, the progress that Europe made is well highlighted. At the turn of the century, new renewable power installations accounted for less than 3GW - no more than 20% of installed capacity that year. This is even more shocking when you consider the lower capacity factors of renewable technology of that time. It … Continue reading A record 90% of new power capacity in the EU was renewable last year
