Is it too late to save the planet? The UK Government plans to spend it's way out of global meltdown, not just from financial meltdown but environmentally too. Future jobs are to be green, green apprentices and green cars are the future.

The price of the benchmark 2009 contract hit an all-time low last week below the previous record of 12.80 euros. EUAs fell to near-zero in the first trading phase of the scheme from 2005-07, since dubbed a trial period.

The scheme limits emissions of heat-trapping CO2 from industrial installations including steel and power plants.

The price of permits has fallen on dwindling industrial carbon emissions as a result of recession and lower output, as well as falling energy demand and lower oil and gas prices.

Eco Homes need Energy Assessors.

All future buildings will have to have their energy needs assessed. FACT.

The challenge for the future is not to simply select new technologies that meet energy efficient criteria but to also make solutions affordable. Building energy efficient homes for the future make the task all the more exciting for Britains Architects and engineers but is the challenge to tall?

So many challenges are ahead of us and this is without considering the economic downturn.

In 2004 the University of Southampton secured £250k worth of DTI (tax payers money) to research solar PV technology and to thereafter put an affordable technology in to main stream production. Thus creating a green technology that produces electricity (during daylight hours) that is affordable for all. Their ultimate aim was to achieve a $1 a watt cell technology. Needless to say we are far far away from such an affordable cell.

Blackout Britain was yet another sensationalist report run by the BBC recently that brought our attention to the shortcomings of the current government and the governments before. France supplies the UK's electricity shortfall and France owns most of the UK's energy producers.

It's not a question, where did we go wrong, it's a question how can we get back on track and secure the UK's future energy supply.

Eon's announced yesterday it will not be building a new Coal Powered power station as previously planned.