{"id":4197,"date":"2011-04-13T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:50:47","slug":"london-olympics-fail-to-reach-renewable-energy-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/london-olympics-fail-to-reach-renewable-energy-target\/","title":{"rendered":"London Olympics Fail to Reach Renewable Energy Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_4200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4200\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LondonOlympicPark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LondonOlympicPark-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LondonOlympicPark\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LondonOlympicPark-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/LondonOlympicPark.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Flickr\/Myriam Bardino<\/figcaption><\/figure>As far as renewable energy goes, the London Olympics, which will take place next year, is already a loser.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to a BBC report, the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 said only the original 20% target will not be met as only 9% of the carbon-reduction measures in place will come from clean power. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, carbon emissions are likely to be reduced by 50%, the watchdog said. <\/p>\n<p>The main reason for the renewable energy targets not to be met was the scraping of plans to set up a wind turbine at the Olympic Park last year, due to safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>To make up for it and reduce emissions the Olympics organizers are investing in measures such as insulation and draft-proofing in local houses and schools.<\/p>\n<p>Green Party member Darren Johnson lamented the figure and said it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153makes mockery of the idea of a green Olympics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>It really is a shame, considering the marketing renewable energy would get during the world-class event.<\/p>\n<p>Via<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-13034546\"> BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far as renewable energy goes, the London Olympics, which will take place next year, is already a loser. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[838,839],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-energy","tag-london-olympics","tag-sustainable-olympics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9363,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/9363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}