Sunday, 20 February 2011

Stop Government cuts to solar (and wind)!

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This month the Government has announced moves to cut funding to solar power as well as wind power. We knew that a lot of Tories hate wind po...
Friday, 4 February 2011

How renewables get squeezed with nuclear power

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Using figures from the Government's own Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics we can see how the nuclear construction programme wil...
Saturday, 29 January 2011

China - powering the way ahead for a renewable future?

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China has now overtaken the USA as the country with the largest amount of installed wind power capacity. It is also manufacturing increasing...
Thursday, 20 January 2011

Government double-talk on offshore supergrids undermined by OFGEM

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Government claims to be supporting the EU supergid concept are undermined by the actions of its own agencies. OFGEM is actually refusing to ...
Thursday, 13 January 2011

More power to Holyrood to protect renewables programme?

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As more people understand the details of the UK Government's electricity market reform (EMR) proposals the more it becomes clear that th...
Wednesday, 5 January 2011

response to 'UK needs nuclear' argument

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See my response (in a letter published in the Guardian) to an argument that the lights will go off if the UK has renewables instead of nucle...
Monday, 27 December 2010

Letter in Guardian calling for real feed-in tariffs

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See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/27/wrong-policy-on-renewable-energy  for the text of a letter in the Guardian calling for...