The mighty triumvirate has received royal assent: the climate change bill (excellent), the energy bill (excellent), and the planning bill (frightening) have now become acts. So now the UK is legally bound to reduce emissions by 80% by 2050 with interim targets along the way. Within a year we’ll see feed in tariffs for distributed [...]
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climate change and energy bills pass – now what?
Posted in climate change, energy, feed in tariff, renewable energy, sustainability, utilities, tagged climate change bill, DECC, Energy Bill, planning bill on November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
private wire NOT illegal
Posted in private wire, tagged Citiworks, ECJ on November 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Some people have got the wrong end of the stick on the Citiworks ruling. But some companies appear to be deliberately spreading misinformation to further their own ends. Just to be clear the ECJ ruling doesn’t make private wire illegal. It does require that private wire networks allow third party access. In other words, if [...]
wood chip curiosities
Posted in biofuel, biomass, energy, renewable energy, tagged wood chip on November 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Til recently, I’d only dealt with the very end of the wood chip supply chain, the part where the chips arrive in a lorry, ready to be tipped into the chip store and burned in the boiler. But in connection with a number of new projects, I’ll be more closely involved in the whole woodchip [...]
sad truth in the IEA numbers
Posted in climate change, energy, renewable energy, sustainability, tagged IEA report on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over on the Sustainability Blog, Michael pointed out that, according to the IEA report, the cost of decarbonising the world’s energy supply would be less than has been spent recently in shoring up the world’s economies. For me a slightly more disturbing number is hidden deeper in the IEA report. $3.6 trillion – the cost [...]
more feed-in-tariff changes to Energy Bill
Posted in energy, feed in tariff, micro chp, other stuff, renewable energy, uncategorized, utilities, tagged Energy Bill, FiT on November 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There have been further amendments to the Energy Bill in the Lords in connection with feed-in-tariffs. The one year implementation deadline is back in. Excellent news as the detail of how FiTs are implemented will almost inevitably be bogged down in long discussions between government and power suppliers – a one year limit should focus [...]
good to be home
Posted in uncategorized on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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