With the scrapping of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), the Government has decided to offset the loss in revenue to the Exchequer by increasing the rates of CCL with effect from the 1st April 2019. Below is a table that shows the current rates and the promulgated increases for the coming years:
Thanks to a gusty start to the summer, during one lunchtime in June the UK managed to produce more than half its electricity demand across one hour from renewables. This is only the second time that this has happened, with the first occurrence just a couple of months earlier, in April.
During the first two months of 2017, power generation in the U.S. was head-to-head in renewable versus nuclear. Nuclear took the lead in January and February at 20.75%, whilst renewables came in at 20.20%.
Germany has a population of 81.41 million and is a very popular destination as it has many tourist attractions such as the Neuschwanstein Castle, Lake Constance, Brandenburg Gate, Cologne Cathedral and the Black Forest.
With the aim of cleaning London’s killer air, green entrepreneur Arthur Kay wants London buses to run on nothing but fuel generated by coffee waste, and he has come up with an innovative way to put his ideas into action.