Lend Lease bans its subsidiary Bovis from nuclear work because it is...
Bovis Lend Lease has had to pull out of a nuclear deal with EDF energy at the eleventh-hour after parent company Lend Lease objected to working in the sector.
View ArticleGerman nuclear shutdown may mean blackouts, energy companies say.
Wind and solar may not be enough to compensate in winter by the time of the target shutdown in 2022, four energy companies have told Angela Merkel. Germany makes a final decision when its ethics...
View ArticleSwitzerland to join Germans in nuclear phase out.
The five ageing Swiss plants will not be replaced at the end of their lives between 2019-2035. They provide 40% of Swiss energy.
View ArticleGerman nuclear phaseout: “easier than many think”.
So I argue in debate with Malcolm Grimston on BBC World Service News Hour. Also printed as an opinion on the BBC News website.
View ArticleAlmost three quarter of Japanese favour nuclear phase out.
So a newspaper poll shows. But 51% think the reactors shut down now should be started up if they pass government safety tests.
View ArticleEU emissions will not rise as a result of Germany’s nuclear phase out.
German emissions will rise: Point Carbon estimates by 493 megatonnes by 2020. But emissions will not rise overall across the EU because the EU emissions trading scheme has an absolute cap on emissions...
View ArticleEon issues 3 years of profits warnings and cuts 11,000 jobs, blaming nuclear...
The CEO of Bayer threatens to move overseas if German energy costs rise too much. German industry is lining up against the government.
View ArticleCustomer demand pushes German railways to target zero carbon.
Deutsche Bahn says it wants to raise the percentage of wind, hydro and solar energy to power its trains from 20% now to 28% in 2014 and become carbon-free by 2050. Some local railways in Hamburg and...
View ArticleSiemens announces it is quitting the nuclear industry.
The builder of all 17 German reactors says “the chapter is closed.” The CEO says he is backing the German government’s planned switch to renewables, calling it a “project of the century”. He says...
View ArticleNuclear phase-out and pricey Russian gas hit RWE and Eon profits.
Gloomy forecasts: Eon now says ebitda will drop from €13.3bn in 2010 to about €9.5bn in 2011, RWE from €10.3bn to about €8.2bn.
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