Wind farms are holding back renewable energy. Due to wind farms, we will have to continue to use fossil fuels to provide power for longer than would otherwise be necessary. Excessive subsidies make them an expensive and inefficient way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a study by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) think-tank says… The industry admits

After years of trying to persuade sceptics, the renewable energy industry continues to face an uphill battle in convincing power producers that integrating more renewable energies like wind and solar will not put the electricity grid in jeopardy. More »

BP has dropped all plans to build wind farms and other renewable schemes in Britain and is instead concentrating the bulk of its $8bn (£5bn) renewables spending programme on the US, where government incentives for clean energy projects can provide a convenient tax shelter for oil and gas revenues. The decision is a major blow to the prime minister, Gordon Brown, who has promised to sweep...

British Wind Energy Association welcomes package, but planning and grid connections still restrict renewables revolution The renewable power industry has been given a shot in the arm after Alistair Darling's budget announced over £5bn worth of new funding to hasten an offshore wind revolution and kick-start solar. But there are concerns that oil and even nuclear were being given help an...

Europe is set to beat its target of drawing 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, according to an analysis of national action plans by the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).

The money pit known as renewable power was back in the news yesterday. Another journalist had their eyes opened to the extraordinary waste of our money through senseless subsidies given to those people who are able to install a large wind turbine or solar panels. Electricity companies are obliged to buy all the power generated by wind turbines, regardless of whether or not it is cost effective.

Thousands of wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a £100bn plan to boost renewable energy.

On the back of the BBC having a go at subsidy wind farms, we now have The Sunday Telegraph joining the battle. This paper is retailing a report from the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) which asserts that wind is failing to deliver value for money and distorting the development of other renewable energy sources. Furthermore, excessive subsidies make them an expensive and inefficient way of reduci...

Speaking in Brussels yesterday (8 July), European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger said the EU would need a harmonised feed-in tariff to boost investment in solar power and other renewable energies. His comments came as the parliament in his native Germany was voting to approve cuts to the national feed-in tariff.

An ambitious plan to expand Scotland's renewable energy output over the next decade, to meet and exceed European Union targets, has been launched by the First Minister.