Why Britain's distorted electricity market means that 'subsidy free'...
The media is awash with stories of the imminent emergence of 'subsidy free' wind and solar power in the UK, but the reality is that the uncompetitive nature of the British electricity market mostly...
View ArticleNew report implies that the proposed Scottish Government Energy Company will...
A report from Ernst and Young on the proposals to launch an Energy Company owned by the Scottish Government gives little hope that the Company will give a substantial boost to renewable energy. The...
View ArticleNational Grid finally comes clean on missing renewable energy generation numbers
National Grid (NG) has finally released figures of 'distributed' renewable energy - that is solar and wind power connected at the distributed as opposed to transmission level of the electricity system....
View ArticleHow the memory of the first world war is driving us to the third world war
A truly toxic combination of militant nationalism and liberal opposition to chemical weapons is driving the world seemingly inexorably towards world war. We know who the militant nationalists are -...
View ArticleProblems with French nuclear plant could spell final end of Hinkley C project
This week's story about problems with pipe welding at the French nuclear plant being built at Flamanville could spell the end for the Hinkley C nuclear project. Treasury backed loan guarantees to build...
View ArticleWhy the 2018 local elections were a good result for Labour
The local election results were a good result for Labour in that if the results were simply transpositioned to a General Election then Jeremy Corbyn would be Prime Minister. Arguments saying that...
View ArticleHitachi's Wylfa project is even more expensive than Hinkley C
A fake price for the faltering proposed Wylfa nuclear plant will obscure the fact that the project, backed by Hitachi, will be even more expensive than Hinkley C. Negotiators for the Wylfa project are...
View ArticleWylfa: How the Tories are deliberately forgetting their nuclear lessons
For the sake of artificially massaging down the price paid for electricity from the proposed Wylfa nuclear plant the Government is about to commit the country to pay for billions of pounds of almost...
View ArticleHow the Committee on Climate Change gave the Government dud advice
The Climate Change Act has been celebrating its 10th anniversary, but there is surprisingly little to celebrate in the earlier advice of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). The CCC is the body...
View ArticleWave power - new bottom up development?
One of the new designs for wave power is looking to enter the energy market via small scale scale applications - as such it is a different approach to the stand-alone mode often proposed for wave power...
View ArticleRenewables generated close to 30 per of UK electricity in 2017: set to top 50...
Today's UK energy statistics reveal that renewable electricity generation increased by around 20 per cent in just one year so that 29.3 per cent of electricity consumed came from renewable energy in...
View ArticleNew report: How Scotland’s new energy company could revive renewable energy...
New report: How Scotland’s new energy company could revive renewable energy in ScotlandIn a new report published by Nuclear Free Local Authorities, Dr David Toke of the University of Aberdeen argues...
View ArticleNew nuclear plan means that consumers will foot bill for unlimited spending...
So finally the Government has, after I feared so long it would, chosen the doomsday option to fund new nuclear power stations - one that will be disastrous for the consumers and taxpayers. After years...
View ArticleWhy rooftop solar pv will be failed by the Government's so called market...
It's rubbish for anybody to claim that rooftop solar pv arrays will be given a decent reward for the sale of electricity that they send onto to electricity distribution system through the competition...
View ArticlePlans for breakthrough wave power device to be unveiled in Aberdeen this week
Hot on the heels of the opening of the new offshore windfarm in Aberdeen, cutting edge renewable energy activity continues at a meeting at the University of Aberdeen this Thursday, 13th September.As...
View ArticleLabour's green energy plans are the surest sign yet that they are heading for...
Labour's low cost and practical proposals for expansion of onshore and offshore wind, solar power, energy conservation and increases in renewable heat are the surest sign yet that they are the...
View ArticleWhy another EU referendum is becoming inevitable
The Conservative Party led us into the EU Referendum in the expectation that one way or another, the issue of EU membership would be resolved. It hasn't been. The exercise has been a disaster and now...
View ArticleGreen surge in Bavaria puts AfD in the shade
The Green Party has surged in the polls to 19%, potentially depriving the CSU of their state Parliamentary majority. They are putting the AfD in the shade who are polling a mere 10 per cent in the...
View ArticleRenewables lobbies fight to stave off Treasury massacre
UK Renewable trade associations are fighting for the survival of the renewable industry against an onslaught led by the Treasury. If the Treasury gets its way almost all future development for...
View ArticleWhy is Michael Liebreich attacking Tim Jackson? - the debate about carbon...
Twitter has recently advertised a clash of opinions between two supporters of renewable energy, the Conservative growthist Michael Liebreich and the allegedly 'degrowthist' Tim Jackson. To what extent...
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