energy efficiency
Scottish officials this week announced they will be offering a £1 million pound annual prize to encourage innovative new ways to improve home energy efficiency. Applications for the Scottish Energy Efficiency Design Awards will be accepted starting in April. “We already have a range of greener policies in place which,
carbon footprint
Public buildings across Scotland are falling far short of meeting the EU’s Energy Performance Certificate requirements, with most government structures “performing disastrously,” according to a report this week in The Scotsman. And it all started with such good intentions. Scottish officials were required to provide certification only for public
saltire prize
A £10m prize has been launched for the first scientists able to demonstre a commercially viable wave or tidal energy system in Scottish waters. The Saltire Prize Challenge was launched in Edinburgh this week and the winning project must be able to achieve a minimum electrical output of 100Gwh over
forests
Greenbang went to Scotland once and actually quite liked it, especially all the mountains and forests. Now the government is proposing to increase the area of Scotland covered by woodland by 2050 to help tackle climate change. The government says adding 10,000 hectares of new woodland per year will
energy
Unless scientists come up with a way of connecting irate commuters and one-legged pigeons up to the national grid, then London isn’t going to be the biggest generator of renewable energy. Scotland however might have more of a chance, with all those windy hillocks and stormy seas. However, in
birds
The UK has a slew of famous Lewises. The most famous is probably Inspector Morse’s hangdog assistant. The second the questionable Bonfire loving Sussex town. Third maybe that lass off Pop Idol. But somewhere in the list of illustrious Lewises, there’s the Scots town. A town that almost
electronics
Like a more cashed up version of this little piggy went to market, some electronics firms have been going WEEE, WEEE, WEEE all the way home. WEEE, rather than an expression of porcine delight, is in this case the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive, an instruction by the EC
aberdeen
Scotland is to get a green energy centre, called rather cleverly the Scottish European Green Energy Centre, which will help out the EU in tackling its big-ass carbon cutting plan by giving other European countries a nice helping hand on research into renewable energy. There were no timescales, targets or
