May 30, 2019 Barbara Moran https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2019/05/30/plymouth-nuclear-plant-decommissioning Decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant - watch, listen to the problems they face in getting rid of the Containers of Nuclear Waste left behind. A problem we face in the future. A high value business for the future, but can the company succeed in doing the job properly?

May 16th, 2019 by Joshua S Hill The UK Solar Trade Association announced twice this week that the country’s solar fleet broke the peak generation record set originally two years ago, highlighting the need for solar to be allowed to participate on a level playing field in the country’s energy mix. According to the Solar Trade Association … Continue reading UK Solar Output Hits Record Peak Of 9.55 Gigawatts

Nuclear News June 2019 - http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/NuClearNewsNo117.pdf 1. Committee on Climate Change sinks Nuclear 2. Electricity Demand and decarbonisation of Heat and Transport 3. Labour’s Solar & Grid Plans 4. Wylfa Suspended 5. Storage Revolution 6. Energy Efficiency 7. Flamanville from No2nuclear

  May 27th, 2019, by Paul Brown -  Climate News Network With its new reactors needing modifications and its older ones awaiting costly updates, France’s nuclear industry is in trouble. LONDON, 27 May, 2019 − EDF, France’s nuclear industry leader and the last European company trying to build large reactors, has had further setbacks to its … Continue reading France’s nuclear industry struggles on

Reuters - BUSINESS NEWS MAY 29, 2019   Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Electricity generated by onshore wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies will in the next year be consistently cheaper than from any fossil fuel source, a report showed on Wednesday, boosting the case for energy sources that don’t emit carbon. The trend for cut-price renewable energy … Continue reading Solar, Onshore wind costs

From Dave Toke's green energy blog   Thursday, 23 May 2019 Published below is a memorandum from the 'Red Lion Group' of 12 academics, to the Labour Party Shadow Energy Secretary, which sets out how Labour's support for new nuclear power prevents the achievement of its plans for renewable energy. This means that Labour's plans to give many … Continue reading Labour plans for new nuclear and R.Energy…

from PV magazine - MAY 30, 2019 MAX HALL PV leads the way as renewables threaten coal-fired power With clean energy being generated at lower and lower prices around the world, solar power is playing a leading role in bringing the curtain down on coal, and will help the decarbonization of transport and space heating too. … Continue reading PV leads the way….

Two campaigners against Sizewell C in Suffolk took the opportunity to take a trip around the developing Hinkley Point C nuclear power site in Somerset this month. Here's what they saw and thought.    " After being accepted on to the tour we were asked to report to the EDF visitor centre in Bridgewater at … Continue reading A visit to Hinkley Point C…..