Sunday, 2 October 2011

Split up the big six! - Green Competition not brown oligopolies!

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I wrote this post in October 2011, but it makes sense now as well since some independent generators have recently been reported as complaini...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Government to cut subsidies for community wind power?

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Despite being acclaimed as being a low cost carbon source even by the nuclear-friendly Committee on Climate Change, onshore wind is due to h...
Tuesday, 23 August 2011

New Statement from Committee on Climate Change

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I have had a further message from the Committee on Climate Change, as below, saying that I have got things wrong, and asking me to clarify t...
Tuesday, 9 August 2011

Committee on Climate Change in Nuclear Costs Climbdown

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The Committee on Climate Change, which said in May [1] that nuclear power was currently ‘the most cost effective of the low carbon technolo...
Monday, 1 August 2011

Give feed-in tariffs to renewable energy not electricity suppliers!

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I have just written to the Environmental Audit Committee asking them to launch an inquiry into the Government's proposals for a renewabl...
Friday, 29 July 2011

'Green' Investment Bank to fund nuclear power?

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The Government has refused to rule out funding nuclear power through the 'Green Investment Bank' (GIB). In a response to the Environ...
Friday, 22 July 2011

Nuclear power is less mature than renewables - says UK Government!

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The UK Government's pro-nuclear mask has slipped. It has admitted, in the cold print of its latest formal Energy Policy statement, that ...