According to a leaked document the EU has agreed to render multi billion pound state support for new UK nuclear plant construction as legal. Whilst that news has been met with celebration for some, suggesting the first new nuclear plant to be built in 20 years at a time when the balance of supply is […]
ENERGY UK Angela Knight to Step Down
Announcement for Year End In a surprise announcement at a critical time for the energy industry and with the suppliers she represents under unprecedented political and social pressure, Energy UK have announced that Chief Executive Angela Knight will step down at the end of 2014. Knight has led Energy UK since May 2012 having […]
DECC Launches CfD Exemption Consultation
Contracts for Difference have already proved controversial. Whether it was the awarding of the first round of funding under the scheme to offshore rather than onshore wind, the legal battle between DECC and Drax Energy to secure subsidy or the failure for energy suppliers to agree a uniform application of the levy on their energy […]
Fracking Remains Light Years Away for the UK
With the news still resonating that DECC have moved to secure an amendment to the Infrastructure Bill absolving fracking companies from seeking permission from landowners to drill below their land, British householders can only look on with envy and no little trepidation when seeing America’s recent shale experience. The US has seen and delivered a […]
DECC Stops Trespass Protection to Allow Fracking
It’s difficult to know where to start on the list of controversies associated with shale gas and the process of fracking. Perhaps the most emotive issue since the appearance of nuclear warheads at Greenham Common in the 1980s, fracking has prompted a groundswell of activism and concern. But David Cameron in his speech to the […]
The Future of Coal – David Cameron Tweets
We’ve said no to new coal w/o Carbon Capture & Storage and plan to phase out existing coal over next 10-15 years. PM Cameron #Climate2014 Twitter and tweeting brings with itself a present danger of the misguided, off-guard, ill-considered missive in 140 characters that soon provides cause for regret. Whilst David Cameron probably didn’t suffer […]
The Nuclear Clean-Up Cost Conundrum
As Japan prepares to announce a reconnection of their nuclear plants to the country’s grid network the cost of post operation cleaning of the UK’s nuclear generation fleet has increased by £6bn from a £63.8bn estimate in 2011-12 to £69.8bn in 2012-13, with future increases expected to arise. The cost for decommissioning covers activities to […]
Wind generation falls as Lord Stern’s delivers his latest warning
Stern vs. Apathy vs. Nature = Climate Change Hiatus “Reducing emissions is not only compatible with economic growth and development – if done well it can actually generate better growth than the old high-carbon model,” Lord Stern Those are the latest findings from Lord Stern the author of the eponymous 2006 Stern review into the […]
Human tragedy – energy debt leads to shopkeeper suicide
In an appalling sequence of events The Daily Telegraph has reported a story that will shock all those who read it. A shopkeeper, faced with a large payment demand from his energy supplier and limited time and resources to pay it, resorted to taking his own life as workers prepared to cut off his supply. […]
BIG 6 Commits to Balance Refunds
Fresh from their Ovo Energy interest payment debacle Ofgem have claimed victory in the long running saga of customer balance-gate. The Big 6 energy companies, with the spectre of the CMA investigation into the energy market hanging over them like the sword of Damocles have committed to refunding their former customers for balances remaining on […]