http://www.renewbl.com/2010/02/06/obama-announces-steps-to-boost-biofuels-clean-coal-strategy-to-enhance-american-energy-independence.html Renewable energy news on a daily basis - solar, wind, hydro, geothermal - projects, investments, regions. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:22:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.renewbl.com/2010/02/06/obama-announces-steps-to-boost-biofuels-clean-coal-strategy-to-enhance-american-energy-independence.html/comment-page-1#comment-4960 Jasper Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:47:11 +0000 http://www.renewbl.com/?p=3903#comment-4960 The British Government likes to think it supports the creation of green jobs, but many would say the evidence suggests otherwise. For example, the closure of the wind turbine manufacturing plant on the Isle of Wight last year, which cost 600 employees their jobs, doesn't tie in with the proposed expansion of wind power in the UK. The offshore wind industry has been seen as key to the economy's shift to low carbon (it could be worth £75bn and support up to 70,000 jobs by 2020), yet the Government is not investing sufficiently as matters stand. Too high a proportion of the manufacturing is done overseas. But some momentum is building around solar energy: companies such as SolarUK are receiving plenty of calls from homeowners who are attracted by the new feed-in tariffs for photovoltaics which will start in April this year (and for the Renewable Heat Incentive which applies to solar hot water, though this does not come into force until next year). The British Government likes to think it supports the creation of green jobs, but many would say the evidence suggests otherwise. For example, the closure of the wind turbine manufacturing plant on the Isle of Wight last year, which cost 600 employees their jobs, doesn't tie in with the proposed expansion of wind power in the UK. The offshore wind industry has been seen as key to the economy's shift to low carbon (it could be worth £75bn and support up to 70,000 jobs by 2020), yet the Government is not investing sufficiently as matters stand. Too high a proportion of the manufacturing is done overseas. But some momentum is building around solar energy: companies such as SolarUK are receiving plenty of calls from homeowners who are attracted by the new feed-in tariffs for photovoltaics which will start in April this year (and for the Renewable Heat Incentive which applies to solar hot water, though this does not come into force until next year).

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