Good article in todays Daily Telegraph by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard titled: US has won battle on oil and, as we go electric, is poised to win the war. Read in full at the Telegraph – Highlights below: Over the last week the International Energy Agency and Opec have both capitulated on US shale, acknowledging that the US will achieve unparalleled […]
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As the Geneva Auto opens today to the public, back in Coventry Jaguar Land Rover, the UK’s largest car manufacturer, has sealed an agreement with EDF Energy to buy all its electricity from renewables. Jaguar Land Rover’s electricity supply is backed by Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO), meaning a proportion of EDF Energy’s renewable energy
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The changing face of UK energy as coal power station converts to a big, very big battery. The old 120MW Britich Gas Roosecote power station in Barrow began producing electricity from coal over 60 years ago. Decades later the plant was replaced with a gas-fired version in the Nineties. Soon Roosecote’s latest incarnation will mark
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The wide spread introduction of so called Smart Meters across the UK is set to cost consumers £11bn. We say for no or little benefit. As we have said before these devices are not smart, not easy to use and are linked to a single supplier. How could they be more stupid? More studies show
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The government’s energy efficiency loan scheme had an “abysmal” take-up rate because it had not been tested with consumers, MPs have said. The “Green Deal” ended last year after providing just £50m in 14,000 loans to households to boost energy efficiency. That was far less than the £1.1bn predicted by the government, with each loan
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Good news for UK entrepreneurs! £10 million share for businesses that can create innovation in energy Gregory Barker, the minister of Energy and Climate, announced that British entrepreneurs who are into the development of innovative technology can benefit from a £10 million share. Big-time power companies like British Gas and engineering firms like Unaoil-associate Severn
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