Renewables

  • Green Energy Rush Hit by Headwinds

    21st April 2010

    From the Wall Street Journal: By Guy Chazan ..."Offshore wind is one of the most expensive short-term ways you can conceive of to reduce CO2 emissions," says Dieter Helm, professor of energy policy at Oxford University. "It's economic nonsense to put all your eggs in one basket like this." Read the full article HERE

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  • Media articles by Dieter Helm

    Don't blow our £100 billion on wind power

    16th July 2009

    Article in The Times - may also be found HERE. Instead of pouring money into renewable energy, we should invest in technology that will really tackle climate change. Climate change is an existential threat. It presents huge challenges to governments and, inevitably, we will have to pay a significant price to keep the temperature from rising by more than two degrees. Politicians across the world increasingly understand this. This is in itself a big step forward in the build-up to the Copenhagen...

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