CarbonFree Weekly News
Week ending 2nd April 2010
Scotland’s Climate Change Act Good News Property Sector
Described as the world’s most ambitious climate change measures, the Act sets a target of reducing emissions by 80 per cent by 2050. Significantly, it also gives powers to fine householders and businesses if they fail to act to improve energy efficiency...more
Green Tower Block Success
Residents of a Leeds tower block have saved a combined £10,000 on their annual fuel bills and reduced carbon emissions by over 7,000 tonnes over the last year, thanks to an innovative ‘Green Tower Block’ scheme run by West North West Homes Leeds...more
Microsoft to Boot up Ford’s Electric Cars
The two companies are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm energy management application for Ford’s electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker announcing the use of Hohm, starting with the Focus Electric next year...more
FedEx Charges Ahead with All-Electric Trucks
FedEx announced the expansion of its alternative-energy vehicle fleet with the first all-electric FedEx parcel delivery trucks in the United States. Four purpose-built electric trucks are slated to hit the road in the Los Angeles area starting in June 2010...more
UK's First Major Smart Meter Deployment Planned
Landis+Gyr has been selected by British Gas to support the UK's first commercial-scale smart meter deployment in an energy efficiency effort that could save consumers more than 200 million pounds in energy bills...more
Radical Change Needed for Global Agriculture
Transforming the agriculture agenda to meet the challenges of a warmer, environmentally-degraded world of 9 billion people will require changes as radical as those that occurred during industrial and agricultural revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries...more
Greenland’s First Hydrogen Plant Underway
The plant is a test system which shall help provide suggestions for how hydrogen can be used for future renewable energy storage in the country. H2 Logic A/S from Denmark has developed and delivered the hydrogen plant which is owned and operated by the national energy company Nukissiorfiit...more
Big Cheese in the Wind Turbine Industry
Wind Direct has achieved financial close on its 2MW on-site generation project at Dewlay Cheesemakers Ltd in Garstang, Lancashire. Agreements have been finalised between Wind Direct and client/landowners Dewlay Cheesemakers; turbine supplier Repower; and financial investors HgCapital...more
