Write to your MP to demand a decent deal for community renewables!
Readers of this blog are urged to write to your MP urging that the Government ensures, as part of the Energy Bill, that community and independent renewable energy generators are given equivalent income...
View ArticleEU state aid challenge follows Treasury 'hint' at nuclear underwriting
A leading EU lawyer, backed by the Vice Chair of the European Group of Green MEPs, has declared the British plan to subsidise nuclear power as...
View ArticleGovernment admits nuclear power is a dead loss
The Government has issued its policy document 'Long Term Nuclear Energy Strategy' today. Here I 'translate' some key passages to connect it up with reality and to emphasise how, reading between the...
View ArticleWe need a renewables target not a carbon floor price
The vultures are circling above the Treasury's plan to increase the carbon floor price - and a good thing too. We should be demanding that the money be precisely targeted at renewable energy and energy...
View Articlerenewable targets will make solar and offshore wind much cheaper
The Leonardo Energy Institute has published a report arguing that carbon emissions will be reduced much more cheaply with post 2020 mandatory targets for renewable energy rather than relying on a...
View ArticleGive consumers not 'Big Brother' control over demand response
Consumers can and surely will control when their dishwashers, washing machines and electric cars will be able to run under proposals for 'demand response', not 'big brother' as reported in today's...
View ArticleAre Tories anti 'bourgeois left' or just anti-green?
John Hayes comment that he does not take any notice of 'bourgeois left wing academics' (surely not referring to people like me!) may be a superficial, amusing quip, but it obscures a deeper truth -...
View ArticleGive consumers not 'Big Brother' control over demand response
Consumers can and surely will control when their dishwashers, washing machines and electric cars will be able to run under proposals for 'demand response', not 'big brother' as reported in today's...
View ArticleEDF boss set to quit as new nuclear talks falter
According to the Times EDF's boss in Britain, Chief Executive Vincent de Rivaz, is set to quit his job as talks with the Government about subsidies for new nuclear power stations falter. See the Times...
View ArticleMPs want to give preference to nuclear over renewables
In a report riddled with pro-nuclear fantasy hopes and statements, the Select Committee of MPs which scrutnises the Department of Energy and Climate Change has called upon the Government to give much...
View ArticleGovernment set to please UKIP by cutting wind support
Onshore wind support is set to be cut back in what will be seen as part of an attempt to mollify the resurgent hard right forces of UKIP and right wing Tory backbenchers who oppose wind power. The...
View ArticleSupport the campaign against EU tariffs on solar panels!
As the EU is about to join the US in its crazy decision to impose tariffs on solar pv panels imported from China now is the time to add our voices against what the EU Commission is doing. The...
View ArticleWhy the EU is being hypocritical about wine dumping and solar protectionism
China's case against EU subsidies on wine seems much more firmly based than the EU's case against Chinese imports of solar panels. That does not justify the protectionism imposed by the EU or...
View ArticleThe real Yeo scandal - his Committee's promotion of nuclear above renewables
With newspaper stories circulating about Tim Yeo MP's alleged dalliances with various lobbyists (biomass and a fake solar company have been mentioned) you'd think Tim Yeo spent most of his time...
View ArticleWill EDF get an inflation-proofed deal? Renewable generators are watching!
Will EDF get an inflation proofed deal for subsidies for Hinkley C? Renewable energy generators will be watching this closely. The EDF public relations team continues to pump out a lot of hopeful press...
View ArticleRenewable generators to be short-changed though use of inflation price index
The Government has effectively decided to slash the value of prices paid to renewable energy generators purely through the adjustments made for inflation. As a result by the end of the contracts for a...
View ArticleGovernment to offer better terms to nuclear than renewables - but all in vain!
See my submission to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) Inquiry on Energy Subsidies. Go to:...
View ArticleGovernment signals good rates for wind and blank cheque for Hinkley C
The Treasury has announced good rates for onshore and offshore wind and also tidal stream. Although it has not announced a price for new nuclear it has said that Hinkley C is eligible to receive a...
View ArticleDavey denies offering EDF a nuclear blank cheque
Energy and Climate Change Secretary of State Ed Davey has denied that the Government is offering EDF a blank cheque for Hinkley C nuclear power plant. He is reported in the Guardian as putting his...
View ArticleDECC to give Big Six 'license to skim' off renewable independents
In an attempt to defuse the problem that independent renewable generators will not be able to obtain 'contracts for difference' (CfD) under arrangements set out in electricity market reform, the...
View Article