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Monday, 30 June 2014

Boost renewable energy by giving more energy powers to Scotland

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As can be seen in the story and letter in the Sunday Herald, myself and others are calling for energy powers to be devolved in Scotland eve...
Thursday, 26 June 2014

Ed Davey gets Scottish 'subsidies' argument wrong on BBC

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Talking on this morning's BBC Radio Ed Davey commented: 'the problem that the SNP have is that the amount of these subsidies are g...
Monday, 23 June 2014

UK on track to miss EU Renewables target by large margin

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The UK Government is on course to undershoot the EU Renewables target by a large margin. The Government is committed to achieving product...
Monday, 16 June 2014

One cheer for the Government's community energy strategy

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The Government has launched a discussion document aimed at ensuring that local people have the opportunity to gain shares or income from ren...
Saturday, 17 May 2014

Could English electricity prices increase if Scotland becomes independent?

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As part of a general tactic of promoting fear and uncertainty in Scotland the UK Government has implied that Scottish electricity consumers ...
Tuesday, 13 May 2014

Thorium and fast breeder fantasies - back to the past?

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It is incredible for nuclear-sceptical analysts who grew up in the 1970s to see thorium and fast breeder reactors positioned today as 'n...
Tuesday, 29 April 2014

DECC survey reveals massive support for onshore wind compared to nuclear and fracking

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The so-called 'wave 9' survey of public attitudes to energy technologies published today by the Department of Energy and Climate Ch...
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Dr David Toke is Reader in Energy Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations in the University of Aberdeen. You can see his profile at https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/david.toke?count=10 He has been campaigning on energy issues for about 35 years, and in 1990 his book ‘Green Energy’ was an influential argument in the UK for a non-nuclear approach to dealing with global warming. He was a key player in the campaign to establish feed-in tariffs for small renewable projects in the UK, achieved in 2008. He has consistently argued that the UK's proposed nuclear power programme is not only uneconomic compared to renewable energy, but that it is undeliverable short of one or more governments signing what amounts to a 'blank cheque' to pay for the nuclear power plant. His latest book, published by Routledge is called 'Low Carbon Politics'. He has published many papers in leading political science journals on environmental, especially energy (and renewable energy) issues and he is also a frequent and well cited contributor to the journal 'Energy Policy' published by Elsevier. His twitter address is @DaveToke
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