New Musk home solar battery will help fight utilities
Perhaps the biggest short term significance of the Musk home batteries which will store power generated by solar pv arrays (or wind turbines) is that they will help grassroots renewable energy...
View ArticleLib Dems to be right wing stooge with agreement to ditch onshore wind
Nick Clegg has already sold the pass on onshore wind even before negotiations with the Conservatives have begun for a new Government. Nick Clegg has announced that he will agree to cut-off incentives...
View ArticleWhy fiscal autonomy will help both Tories and Labour as well as Scotland in...
The landslide victory of the SNP in the General Election allied to the nearly 45 per cent vote in the 'indyref' signals the support of the majority of the Scottish voters for devomax. If this is to...
View ArticleNuclear power is more expensive than both onshore AND offshore wind power
Using the Government's own contract prices for nuclear power and wind power we can demonstrate how nuclear power is more expensive than both onshore wind AND offshore wind. Based on a very plausible...
View ArticleIs China's slump in carbon emissions real or are they just making it up?
Jonathan Leake, writing in the Sunday Times described reports of reductions in carbon emissions from China as 'unlikely''in such a fast growing economy'. He highlighted a US initiative to launch a...
View ArticleTory bill to end windfarm subsidies likely to undermine EU approval for state...
Conservative efforts to 'end subsidies' for onshore windfarms seem likely to undermine EU state aid approval for Hinkley C. This is because the EU Commission's judgement was based on evidence submitted...
View ArticleWhy Scottish independence is more likely if the whole of the UK stays in the EU
There is a theory going around in Scotland that if the rest of the UK (rUK) votes to leave the EU whilst Scotland votes for the EU then Scotland can have another referendum, and that in such...
View ArticleWhy Friends if the Earth should demand NOW that the Government scraps Hinkley...
Below is a copy of a letter I have sent to Simon Bullock, the Senior Energy Campaigner of Friends of the EarthDear Simon,Thankyou for news of FOE's activities, which are most welcome. However, I am...
View ArticleWhy the oil companies' call for carbon pricing may not be what it seems
It may seem quite a breakthrough to get a bunch of oil companies to sign up to climate action, but I would definitely  look this gift horse in the mouth. This is for the simple reason that the policy...
View ArticleUrgent! Write now to your MP to urge them to stop the Government's windfarm...
As you have no doubt seen in the press, the Government has announced that it is pressing ahead with plans to stop incentives being paid to onshore wind. The cutting edge of the current threat is to...
View ArticleWind incentive cut is against the wishes of almost all Scottish MPs - Govt...
RenewableUK's threat to take the Government to court if they cut off incentives for onshore wind early evokes memories of the 'indyref' debate about what would happen to financing of Scottish windfarms...
View ArticleHow onshore wind is now quite cheap through the Renewables Obligation
Despite all the furore about alleged large subsidies being earned by onshore wind through the Renewables Obligation, the facts speak otherwise. We have heard how, under the new Electricity Market...
View ArticleHeat Pumps and district heating systems are essential for Scotland's low...
The Scottish Government is being proactive in publishing plans for decarbonising heat in pursuit of a target of substantial reductions from this sector by 2030. There is much talk of district heating...
View ArticlePressure grows for blank cheque for nuclear power
Now that it is plain that nuclear power has failed miserably to compete with renewable energy even on the somewhat skewed playing field represented by the (proposed) Hinkley C deal, nuclear supporters...
View ArticleTreasury poised to axe renewables programme
Largely because of the very success of the renewables deployment programme and the insistence by the Treasury of a cap on levies on electricity bills needed to pay for renewable energy, the UK's...
View ArticleEU is becoming laggard in world renewable energy deployment
The EU, much famed in previous years for its promotion of global climate change abatement treaties and its installation of renewable energy, is heading for 'laggard' status in the global drive for...
View ArticleWhy EDF is a good example of why we don't need public ownership of...
Jeremy Corbyn has just announced that he favours public ownership of the electricity industry in the UK. Does that mean a return to the days when electricity generation was one big nationalised...
View ArticleSolar Power is too cheap to meter! - so says Keith Barnham in 'The Burning...
Making a parody of claims attributed to nuclear power in the 1950s as being 'too cheap to meter', as Keith Barnham does, may seem a cheap shot to some - but it is a reality even now. That is the claim...
View ArticleSo which countries will take care of the likely ruinous debts for Hinkley C?
As widespread incredulity spreads about the UK Government's insistence that the plan to build Hinkley C nuclear power station is still on track, we must wonder which country and which companies will...
View ArticleThe notion that nuclear is cheaper somewhere else is a myth
The British attitude to the notion that nuclear power is not cheap after all is a bit like a child who first hears that Father Christmas does not, after all, exist. Disbelief, and in this case a belief...
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