- Sebastian Kennedy - Bilingual Journalist
I have spent the last few years reporting for all manner of publications on everything from culture and city life in chaotic Caracas to the glamour of the mile-high travel retail club in Cannes.
My articles have been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, the New Statesman, leading US environmental magazine Earth Island Journal and Venezuela’s English language national The Daily Journal. I have also written for various business-to-business titles.
I am currently a staff writer for reNews, a fortnightly subscription-only B2B publication which covers the renewable energy industry. For a period I also wrote for sister publication Powerhouse, which covers the decentralised energy / microgeneration sector.
My beats for these publications include the marine renewables sector, the onshore wind industry in Wales and renewable energy in South America. For Powerhouse I contributed regular features on the state of the microgeneration sector in each region of the UK.
I started work at reNews and Powerhouse during the second term of my one-year magazine journalism masters course at Bournemouth University. The course built substantially upon the many feature-writing, news gathering, sub editing and online skills I had already picked up in newsrooms on both sides of the Atlantic.
In this section you can browse my portfolio of articles produced both at college and for reNews.
Ballot box brings on the blues for green energy industryConservative leader David Cameron’s campaign mantra of ‘vote blue, go green’ epitomises efforts to re-brand the party as environmentally aware, as the move to renewable energy becomes an increasing national priority. But with a toxic planning system stymieing growth, would a Conservative government help cultivate the budding wind industry – or leave it at the mercy of unruly and unpredictable local authorities?
Machines on the hill carry winds of change
The largest and most controversial wind farm in England is nearing completion, but its journey from drawing board to hillside has been far from straightforward. I talked to builders and the protestors, and the local residents caught in the middle to find out if Scout Moor has become a divisive scar or a cherished symbol of life in rural Britain in the 21st century
From delays in tendering contracts for the world's first wave energy test facility to the chaos of the Welsh planning system, find out the latest news from the world of renewable energy.
To find out more about the places I have lived and worked, have a look at my CV.
