Press Clippings

2018

Business Green – https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/opinion/3064857/the-chancellor-must-act-if-the-uk-is-to-avoid-a-coal-revival 

Platts – https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/101518-uk-warns-co2-market-operators-of-risks-from-no-deal-brexit 

July 2018

Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/carbon-traders-bracing-for-u-k-s-possible-exit-from-eu-market 

Climate Home – http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/07/11/german-renewables-overtake-coal-power-generation-six-months/ 

Bloomberg – https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/trump-says-europe-to-buy-boatloads-of-u-s-lng-dont-bet-on-it/

BusinessGreen – https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3036192/ccus-taskforce-government-must-act-now-if-it-wants-affordable-carbon-capture 

May 2018: Launch of our Barriers to Industrial Decarbonisation report

Platts – https://www.platts.com/latest-news/electric-power/london/technology-held-back-by-eu-climate-policy-sandbag-26963025 

Ends Report – https://www.endsreport.com/article/59475/eu-ets-failing-to-cut-industrial-co2-emissions 

Carbon Pulse – https://carbon-pulse.com/52285/ 

May 2018: Launch of our Coal To Clean report

The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/13/from-coal-to-clean-uk-does-not-need-to-turn-to-gas-says-wwf 

Business Green – https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/opinion/3032179/is-it-time-to-follow-the-coal-phase-out-with-a-gas-phase-out-target 

Utility Week – https://utilityweek.co.uk/no-need-for-gas-bridge-to-go-from-coal-to-clean/ 

EnergyLive News – https://www.energylivenews.com/2018/05/14/uk-does-not-need-and-must-not-build-new-gas-plants/ 

Clean Energy News – https://www.cleanenergynews.co.uk/news/solar/uk-to-leapfrog-a-gas-bridge-as-clean-power-set-to-replace-coal 

Impact4All – https://impact4all.org/uk-does-need-turn-gas-says-wwf/ 

The Engineer – https://www.theengineer.co.uk/wwf-report-gas-bridge-2/ 

ReNew Economy – https://reneweconomy.com.au/uk-wont-need-new-gas-plants-2025-coal-phase-47891/ 

MyGreenPod – https://www.mygreenpod.com/articles/the-end-of-the-gas-era-is-near/ 

The Independent – https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/uk-renewable-energy-investment-targets-wind-solar-power-onshore-a8358511.html 

The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/20/drax-power-station-boss-warns-against-reliance-electricity-imports-interconnectors 

April 2018: Launch of our analysis: EU ETS emissions rise for first time in 7 years

CleanEnergyWire – https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/new-company-bets-old-wind-farms-top-10-ets-emitters-mainly-german/slight-rise-eu-ets-emissions-first-time-seven-years-most-top-10-emitters-germany 

Euractiv – https://www.euractiv.com/section/emissions-trading-scheme/news/eu-carbon-market-emissions-rise-for-first-time-in-7-years-in-2017/ 

EnergyNews.es – https://www.energynews.es/aumentan-emisiones-ets/ 

Coal Wire – https://endcoal.org/2018/04/coalwire-223-april-5-2018/ 

Greentech Media – https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/european-renewables-are-up-so-are-carbon-emissions#gs.Tp2tRzM 

Politico

March 2018

BusinessGreen – https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3029403/fantastic-uk-emissions-drop-in-2017-as-wind-and-solar-power-hit-record-highs 

Bloomberg – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/europe-s-38-billion-carbon-market-is-finally-starting-to-work 

February 2018

Edie.net – https://www.edie.net/news/11/Business-benefits-of-EU-ETS-reform-clouded-by-Brexit-uncertainty/ 

DesmogUK – https://www.desmog.uk/2018/02/07/insurance-companies-claim-they-ve-gone-clean-still-invest-billions-polish-coal 

30th January 2018: Launch of our report: The European Power Sector in 2017

New Scientist – https://www.newscientist.com/article/2159883-renewables-made-more-electricity-than-coal-in-europe-in-2017/

BusinessGreen – https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news-analysis/3025531/report-uk-and-germany-bolster-sharp-eu-renewables-growth-in-2017

Eco-Business – http://www.eco-business.com/news/the-eu-got-less-electricity-from-coal-than-renewables-in-2017/

Climate Action Programme – http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news/renewables-overtake-coal-in-the-eu-for-the-first-time

The Guardian – https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/30/uk-electricity-use-falling-economy-weather

EnergyLive News – http://www.energylivenews.com/2018/01/30/uk-leads-as-europes-renewables-overtake-coal/

Windpower Monthly – https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1455842/renewables-deployment-increasingly-uneven

CarbonPulse – https://carbon-pulse.com/46598/

CarbonBrief – https://www.carbonbrief.org/eu-got-less-electricity-from-coal-than-renewables-2017

Liberation – http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2018/01/30/les-energies-vertes-depassent-le-charbon-en-europe-pour-la-premiere-fois_1625977

The Telegraph – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/30/uk-beating-eu-race-clean-energy-system/

Quartz – https://qz.com/1193603/two-countries-are-the-reason-the-eu-is-hitting-its-ambitious-renewable-energy-targets/

Edie.net – https://www.edie.net/news/10/Report–Britain-ahead-of-EU-pack-in-low-carbon-transition–/

Montel – https://www.montel.no/en/story/ets-emissions-rise-for-first-time-since-2010–sandbag/865553

Energia Rinnovabli – http://www.rinnovabili.it/energia/eolico/rinnovabili-europee-produzione-elettrica/

ETC – https://www.etc.se/klimat/fornybart-ger-mer-el-kolkraft

MeteoWeb – http://www.meteoweb.eu/foto/clima-ed-energia-la-rivoluzione-green-delleuropa-la-volta-le-energie-rinnovabili-superato-carbone-boom-italia-dati/id/1036967/#1

Sonnenseite – http://www.sonnenseite.com/de/energie/2017-erstmals-mehr-strom-aus-wind-sonne-und-biomasse-als-aus-kohle-in-der-europaeischen-union.html

ReNews – http://renews.biz/109996/green-power-tops-30-of-eu-output/

Clean Energy Wire – https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/outrage-over-carmakers-diesel-fume-tests-renewables-beat-coal-eu

12th May 2017 UtilityWeek – Energy firms call for carbon price commitment 19th April 2017 Bloomberg – Europe’s coal power is disappearing faster than anyone thought 9th March 2017 EDIE.NET – ‘Difficult to see’ UK remaining in EU ETS 6th March 2017 The Energy Collective – Reform of the EUETS Has at Last Made Significant Progress 2nd March 2017 Bloomberg – EU Carbon Permits Jump After Ministers Agree on Market Overhaul Climate Central – European Climate Action Faces Crucial Moment Standard-Examiner – European Climate Action Faces Crucial Moment 1st March 2017 Bunkerworld – CO2 allowances jump 13% as EU ministers back ambitious reforms EurActiv.cz – Státy EU se shodly na reformě uhlíkového trhu. Jsou ambicióznější než europoslanci ActuEnviroment – L’Europe peine à corriger les dysfonctionnements de son marché carbone 27th Feb 2017 Energías Renovables – COMMENT: El mercado europeo del carbono, ¿un barco que se hunde? 24th Feb 2017 Carbon Pulse – COMMENT: European carbon market – cutting emissions or just counting allowances? EurActiv.cz – COMMENT: EU ETS: snižování emisí, nebo jen počítání povolenek? 23rd Feb 2017 EUbusiness – ETS reform vote will boost cement sector subsidy to EUR 3.5 billion by 2030 16th Feb 2017 Bond Beter Leefmilieu – ETS heeft groot onderhoud nodig. Hier is het recept 15th Feb 2017 Euractiv – European Parliament adopts draft reform of carbon market Climate Home – Market shrugs as EU lawmakers pass carbon trading reforms 13th Feb 2017 EurActiv France – Le marché du carbone à la recherche du juste prix Oikonomia.gr – Μεταρρύθμιση της αγοράς άνθρακα στην ΕΕ σε αναζήτηση μια νέας τιμής 12th Feb 2017 Euractiv – The price is right? Crunch time for EU carbon market reform 9th Feb 2017 CarbonBrief – Mapped: EU coal plants ‘should all close by 2030’ 7th Feb 2017 Politico – Europe fights to save broken climate fix Global cement – New EU border tariffs will boost low-carbon cement 26th Jan 2017 BusinessGreen – Shift from coal to gas prompts 4.5 per cent drop in EU power emissions EnergyLive News – Coal to gas switch led to 4.5% fall in EU emissions ENDS Europe – EU power emissions down as coal declines Montel – ETS emissions fal
l 2.7% Renewable Energy Magazine – European power became greener in 2016 Power Engineering International – UK played key part in EU emission reductions in 2016 CleanTechnica – European Shift From Coal To Gas Drops Power Emissions 4.5% 25th Jan 2017 CarbonBrief – ‘Huge’ coal-to-gas switch drives down EU power emissions CarbonPulse – EU ETS emissions fell in 2016 on more utility fuel-switching 24th Jan 2017 Business Insider – Electricity generation in Europe is becoming more climate friendly 23rd Jan 2017 The Energy Collective – Can Emissions Trading Produce Adequate Carbon Prices? 22nd Jan 2017 Germany needs to start coal phase-out by 2019 to honour Paris targets

2016