Renewable energy information service
All you need to get access to up to date news and independent views on renewable energy developments and policies in the UK and globally.
This is the main access site for Renew and NATTA- the Network for Alternative Technology and Technology Assessment. NATTA was set up as an independent information service in 1976, and Renew, its bimonthly newsletter, started up in 1979, with a free electronic version, Renew On Line, starting up after issue 100 .
RENEW ON LINE
Renew On Line (ROL) is available free, bimonthly, in downloadable PDF format here
The current Sept-Oct 2019 issue is at: ROL141
Back issues
July-Aug 2019 issue: ROL140
May-June 2019 issue: ROL 139
March- April 2019 issue: ROL138
Jan- Feb 2019 issue: ROL 137
Nov-Dec 2018 issue: ROL136
Sept – Oct 2018 issue: ROL 135
July- August 2018 issue: ROL 134
May-June 2018 issue: ROL133
March-April 2018 issue: ROL 132
Jan-Feb 2018 issue: ROL131
Nov-Dec 2017 issue: ROL130
Sept-Oct 2017 issue:ROL129
July-Aug 2017 issue: ROL 128
May-June 2017 issue: ROL127
March-April 2017 issue: rol126 Jan-Feb 2017 issue: rol125 Nov-Dec 2016 issue: ROL124 Sept- Oct 2016 issue: ROL123 July-Aug 2016 issue: ROL122 May-June 2016 issue: ROL 121 March-April 2016 issue: ROL120 Jan-Feb 2016 issue: ROL119 Nov-Dec 2015 issue: ROL118 Sept Oct 2015 issue: ROL117 July- August 2015 issue: ROL116 May-June 2015 issue: ROL115 March-April 2015 issue: ROL114 Jan- Feb 2015 issue: ROL113
We also produce a shorter monthly Renew Extra, looking at wider issues: https://newrenewextra.blogspot.com
Until Feb 2018 it alternated bi-monthly with ROL, but was then combined with a parallel seperate posting (back issues of which are at http://delliott6.blogspot.com ) into the new monthly Renew Extra posting. Back issue of Renew Extra are at http://renewextra.blogspot.co.uk
Why not book mark this Blog on your browser now: they are all posted near the beginning of each respective month.
Renew On Line archive All the back issues of Renew On Line in PDF format are available from: https://renewonlinearchive.wordpress.com
OTHER INFO SOURCES
Renew’s editor and NATTA co-ordinator, Prof David Elliott, produces a well received weekly 1000 word Renewable energy blog, for the Institute of Physics: https://physicsworld.com/author/david-elliott/
Why not book mark this site on your browser too? And check it out regularly .
There’s also now a weekly Twitter notification of all these postings: https://twitter.com/daelliott10 Earlier postings are at: https://twitter.com/nattarenew
In addition to these weekly, monthly and bimonthly posts, NATTA produces an end of year annual review. The most recent edition is downloadable free as a PDF file here:
Here are earlier ones:
and Renew2014
Student Renew NATTA also produces a controlled access extended student version of Renew, available to students on courses that subscribe to it, via a password. The bimonthly PDF file is posted at: https://renewstudent.wordpress.com
It’s an expanded version of the free Renew On Line. Check with your course administrator to see if your course subscribes and, if so, get the password . Course leaders wishing to subscribe, for a small pro-rata fee, to give their student access, should contact d.a.elliott@open.ac.uk
Books You may also be interested in David Elliott’s e-book, produced for the IoP: ‘Renewables: a review of sustainable energy supply issues’: http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-750-31040-6
and his Pivot e-book: ‘Green Energy Futures’, from Palgrave: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/green-energy-futures-david-elliott/?sf=barcode&st1=9781137584427
And also his book for the IoP, on ‘Balancing Green Power’: http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-1230-1
The IoP has also published his book on Nuclear Power: http://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-1-6817-4505-3
And there’s also this ‘Renewable Energy: from Europe to Africa’ (with Terry Cook): www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319747866
And most recently there’s Renewable energy in ther UK: past, present and future’: www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030047641
David Elliott is emeritus professor of Technology Policy at the Open University UK, where he pioneered courses and research focusing on renewable energy and innovation policy. NATTA has been his long running ‘out reach’ project, continued into his retirement. He will endeavor to respond to direct feed back on the posts and can be contacted at d.a.elliott@open.ac.uk
