‘Great’ Britain The suspension bridge, penicillin, first intercity railway. What do these things all have in common? Answer – they are all Great British discoveries, with varying degrees of desirable effects. More importantly, these inventions are synonymous with a time when Great Britain powered ahead of the world using an innovative mindset by using practical […]

Before I got involved in TheGreenAge, it is fair to say that my electricity bill would arrive on a quarterly basis and I would eventually reluctantly pay it without really ever looking at it. I knew that in the winter my bills would be higher and during the summer months these would come down a […]

On Tuesday 22nd May, Edward Davey, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change published the first draft of the Energy Bill that could define the electricity production market place for many years to come. In the following post we have provided an overview of the bill, however it can be found in full […]

Why should we talk more about Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Technology? You may have heard of hydrogen powered cars or fuel cell CHP boilers, they are relatively new products, but how exactly do they work? In this blog we put the hydrogen fuel cell that powers them under the microscope. If we could somehow refine […]

Imagine life without electricity Well, first off you wouldn’t be reading this; in fact the internet wouldn’t exist at all. Business systems would fail, emergency services would become futile, there would be limited transport, limited communication, and most of the modern conveniences that you take for granted would simply disappear. Everything that makes life so […]

The roadmap for the UK Budget for 2012/13 was set out Wednesday by the Chancellor, George Osborne, but what does it mean for our Green Sector and Cleantech in the UK? In 2010, PM David Cameron, pledged that this government would be the ‘greenest ever’. This year’s budget seemed concerned (rightly so) with measures to […]

A bit about me! I studied Zoology at University, much to the amusement of my friends; the reasons for this area of study were twofold, firstly I had a fantastic biology teacher at school and secondly because I had a genuine interest in the environment and how humans and other animals co-habit the planet. Since […]

FiT Contract for Difference (CfD) is the new mechanism for electricity generation that is set to replace the Renewables Obligation (ROs) from 2017.