Renewable Review (18th August)
Spotlight
Policy
UK uses inflated carbon price to shape energy policy, analysts say | FT (￡)
Is the Bank of England a leader of net zero transition? Don’t bank on it! | LSE Blogs
Colorado’s next big climate solution is reducing industry emissions | Forbes
Solar
UK homes install ‘record number’ of solar panels and heat pumps | Guardian
Swansea: solar farm could ruin beauty spot, residents fear | BBC
South Gloucestershire Council gives go-ahead to Codrington Solar Farm | Energy Live
Wind
Offshore turbines get giant bird boxes to protect rare gulls | IFLScience
Vestas turbine sets world record | reNews
Mammoth Vestas wind turbine claims world record for power output | ReCharge News
Resource Management
Council to ‘phase out’ separate paper collections citing low demand | Let’s Recycle
Vape adverts on London buses criticised for recycling message | BBC
Scottish Government asked to repay small firms after collapse of drinks recycling scheme | Record
Nuclear
Is nuclear power set for a European renaissance? | Euractiv
Sweden criticised over plan to build at least 10 new nuclear reactors | Guardian
France returns to being top electricity exporter in Europe | Connexion
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Hydrogen
Hyundai Tucson owner shocked by $113k repair bill for hydrogen fuel cell | The Drive
BP backs green hydrogen start-up aiming to cut fuel’s costs | Reuters
BMW’s new hydrogen electric vehicle unveiled in UK debut | GBNews
Battery
‘Encouraging numbers’ from world’s largest lithium-vanadium BESS | Energy Storage News
BESS near Ballyavelin Road in Limavady approved | Northern Ireland World
Mitigating explosive risks in battery energy storage systems | Energy Global
Anaerobic Digestion
Viapol’s biomass system reduces GHG by 90% | World Bio Market
Technical advancements in AD processes | EnergyPortal.eu
Council declines to withdraw Barry biomass demolition order | Let’s Recycle
ESG
Corporate wokeness is becoming a deeply sinister threat to our freedom | Telegraph (￡)
Bankers hate saying ‘ESG’ but are handwriting it into their work | Bloomberg
A looming ESG crackdown | FT (￡)
Food & Agriculture
Sharp rise in cost of food basics forces families ‘to make desperate choices’ | Guardian
‘This way of farming is really sexy’: the rise of regenerative agriculture | Guardian
Mediterranean heatwave to add billions to cost of Britain's food | Times (￡)
Fossil Fuels
Twitter revives eerie 111-year-old warning about burning fossil fuels | HuffPost
The IRA helped me break up with fossil fuels | Atlantic
Clean energy future is arriving faster than you think | NYTimes