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Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Treasury poised to axe renewables programme

Posted by Sohail Azad On 02:02

Largely because of the very success of the renewables deployment programme and the insistence by the Treasury of a cap on levies on electricity bills needed to pay for renewable energy, the UK's renewable energy programme is likely to be brought to an effective end by 2018, if not sooner.Calculations suggest that the budget within the Treasury's 'Levy Control Framework' (LCF) set by the Treasury will soon be spent as onshore wind and solar pv farms are installed faster than expected. Indeed Nigel...

Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Pressure grows for blank cheque for nuclear power

Posted by Sohail Azad On 02:05

Now that it is plain that nuclear power has failed miserably to compete with renewable energy even on the somewhat skewed playing field represented by the (proposed) Hinkley C deal, nuclear supporters are trying to engineer a 'blank cheque' to be given to  nuclear developers. That would be the outcome of the call, made in a report issued by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR).The IPPR favour developing nuclear power as a publicly owned development, on the same basis as projects...

Friday, 12 June 2015

Heat Pumps and district heating systems are essential for Scotland's low carbon heating plan

Posted by Sohail Azad On 04:01

The Scottish Government is being proactive in publishing plans for decarbonising heat in pursuit of a target of substantial reductions from this sector by 2030. There is much talk of district heating systems. If the district heating systems are to be supplied by renewable energy then perhaps the most practical way of doing this is through the heat networks being supplied by industrial scale heat pumps.Renewable energy production from wind, solar, tidal etc needs to be expanded beyond the current...

Thursday, 11 June 2015

How onshore wind is now quite cheap through the Renewables Obligation

Posted by Sohail Azad On 16:54

Despite all the furore about alleged large subsidies being earned by onshore wind through the Renewables Obligation, the facts speak otherwise. We have heard how, under the new Electricity Market Reform 'contracts for differences',  onshore wind contracts were won in the February auction organised by the Government for a �80 per MWh for just a 15 year contract. Of course this is much less than Hinkley C is being offered for a 35 year contract.What is less known is that even under the Renewables...

Thursday, 4 June 2015

Wind incentive cut is against the wishes of almost all Scottish MPs - Govt faces legal challenge

Posted by Sohail Azad On 03:00

RenewableUK's threat to take the Government to court if they cut off incentives for onshore wind early evokes memories of the 'indyref' debate about what would happen to financing of Scottish windfarms after independence. The rumoured threats also goes against the opinions of almost every Scottish MP - bar one - a Conservative!It has been rumoured that Amber Rudd will bring forward the cut-off date for the planned closure of the Renewables Obligation to new projects from March 2017 to  March...

Monday, 1 June 2015

Urgent! Write now to your MP to urge them to stop the Government's windfarm massacre!

Posted by Sohail Azad On 23:32

As you have no doubt seen in the press, the Government has announced that it is pressing ahead with plans to stop incentives being paid to onshore wind. The cutting edge of the current threat is to 'close' the Renewables Obligation (RO) to new windfarms from April 2016. Currently many windfarms are planned to be installed in the final year of incentives being available for wind power (2016-2017), so this action will waste a lot of cheap low carbon energy. RenewableUK, the trade body representing...

Why the oil companies' call for carbon pricing may not be what it seems

Posted by Sohail Azad On 14:54

It may seem quite a breakthrough to get a bunch of oil companies to sign up to climate action, but I would definitely  look this gift horse in the mouth. This is for the simple reason that the policy instrument to which they give so much prominence (carbon pricing) is one that will act more in their interests rather than the interest of implementing energy efficiency and renewable energy. Examine the key phrase in the document, issued by the Climate group, namely:'If governments act to price...