After a lot of prevarication the Department of Energy and Climate Change web site now proudly proclaims that:
Consultation on the Renewables Obligation Banding Review is now closed.
In a press release yesterday the Secretary of State, Ed Davey, said that:
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Fresh from arguing about energy policy with the Treasury up in Westminster, Ed Davey has popped down here to South West England to help launch Cornwall Together, which according to their web site:
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It seem that lots of people are unaware of all the past, present and future projects researching and even actually producing geothermal energy in the United Kingdom. This even seems to include journalists at quality newspapers such as The Independent!
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Earlier this month Irish based GT Energy announced that they had:
Signed a Memorandum of Understanding with E.ON UK, one of the UK’s leading power and gas companies, to develop five new deep-geothermal heat and distribution systems. Under the terms of the partnership, the two companies will collaborate on five projects to tap into the heat that occurs naturally only a few kilometres underground, providing a reliable source of clean energy for homes and businesses.
However they didn't reveal the location of those five plants. Now they have taken the next step, and they announced today that they have:
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Sarah McLachlan thinks so. Sarah is a Canadian singer/songwriter, possibly most familiar in the popular imagination as the singer of the Oscar nominated Randy Newman song "When She Loved Me" from the soundtrack to the movie "Toy Story 2". Slightly less well known is Sarah's support for a variety of causes, one of which is geothermal energy. Here's a "music video" of her song "World on Fire" from the 2003 album "Afterglow" :
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According to the front page news in this morning's Western Morning News, and under the headline "Eden in new 'hot rocks' scheme":
Energy independence, hi-tech jobs and a long-term income from exporting power to other parts of the country could be a reality for Cornwall by the end of the decade.
It's not a reality just yet, however, since although the Eden Project obtained planning permission for a geothermal energy facility from Cornwall County Council back in 2010:
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The 7th Annual British Renewable Energy Awards took place at the end of last month. It has just been announced that the the Eden Project's "SolarFair" solar power scheme achieved the "runner-up" position in the "Flagship Project Award" category.
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