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DECC: Climate Change Minister, Greg Barker, last week urged communities to grab the new opportunities to become more energy self sufficient and join the green energy revolution. At the Combined Heat and Power Association annual conference, he launched a brand new website called Community Energy Online to help communities find out more about how to generate their own energy.
DECC will shortly be formally consulting on its Microgeneration Strategy and publishing further detail on the Renewable Heat Incentive.
Ofgem: 4 innovative projects that will speed up the crucial development of smart grids to meet low carbon energy use, will share £62m of funding from the £500m Low Carbon Networks Fund, energy regulator Ofgem announced recently. The lessons learnt from these ground-breaking initiatives will be shared with all network companies & interested parties, potentially benefiting millions of energy consumers across Britain.
STFC: Funding from STFC has helped IBM and researchers from the University of Edinburgh and ColumbiaUniversity to develop the most energy efficient supercomputers in the world. A prototype of IBM's next generation Blue Gene supercomputer has been named top of the latest 'Green500 List and STFC funded part of its cost.
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