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Friday, 20 April 2018

Problems with French nuclear plant could spell final end of Hinkley C project

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This week's story about problems with pipe welding at the French nuclear plant being built at Flamanville could spell the end for the H...
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Friday, 13 April 2018

How the memory of the first world war is driving us to the third world war

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A truly toxic combination of militant nationalism and liberal opposition to chemical weapons is driving the world seemingly inexorably towar...
Wednesday, 11 April 2018

National Grid finally comes clean on missing renewable energy generation numbers

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National Grid (NG) has finally released figures of 'distributed' renewable energy - that is solar and wind power connected at the di...
Monday, 9 April 2018

New report implies that the proposed Scottish Government Energy Company will NOT boost renewable energy

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A report from Ernst and Young on the proposals to launch an Energy Company owned by the Scottish Government gives little hope that the Comp...
Sunday, 1 April 2018

Why Britain's distorted electricity market means that 'subsidy free' renewable energy is a myth

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The media is awash with stories of the imminent emergence of 'subsidy free' wind and solar power in the UK, but the reality is that ...
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Wednesday, 14 March 2018

How Labour can really put the wind up the Tories

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Labour is well placed to embarrass the Tories by attacking the Government’s war on the onshore wind industry in the UK. Despite onshore ...
Tuesday, 16 January 2018

Future of Energy Conference at University of Aberdeen

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Some of the conference presentations and also recordings of contributions can be seen at: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/energy/events/the-future-of...
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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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