The UK government aims to build a large nuclear power plant in northern Wales as it seeks to boost the stable, low-carbon electricity source alongside wind farms to reach its climate goals.
Scottish Tory proposals to shift renewable energy policy away from onshore wind would hit jobs and economic development while driving up household energy bills, it was claimed last night.
CHINA will have 100 gigawatts of wind-power capacity by 2020 - more than three times the 30GW target the government laid down in an energy strategy drawn up just 18 months ago.
THE best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing energy crops on a grand scale or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University in the US. He says that currently fashionable "clean coal" - which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering them in the earth, and which is currently flavour of the political month here in Britain - is not clean at all.
One of the world's most dangerous nuclear power plants, mothballed after international protests, may be reopened because of the Russian gas row, it emerged yesterday.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published a major new study into global gas markets and paints a picture of rising demand and rising prices, especially in gas-deficient economies such as the European Union.
Oil-rich states should use the trillions of dollars they are making from soaring prices to finance new nuclear power plants in Britain, Gordon Brown said yesterday.
SNP energy spokesman Mike Weir last night stepped up attacks on Prime Minister Gordon Brown's plan to stave off soaring fuel costs by building more nuclear power stations.