Guardian: “Jeremy Leggett among 100 signatories to letter opposing oil firm’s likely influence over university’s climate change studies.”
Solarcentury
The company I founded in 1998 to design and supply solar energy solutions for the built environment. Solarcentury
Solar Aid
The charity I founded in 2006, with a 5% contribution of Solarcentury profits, to help deliver solar lighting to Africa. Solar Aid
Citi predicts end of oil demand growth this decade.
Seth Kleinman, head of the Global Energy Strategy at Citi, in the FT: “….the consensus is wrong. This is due to the substitution of natural gas – often obtained through the hydraulic fracturing of shale rock, or fracking – for oil, and fuel-efficiency mandates in many key countries. The prospect of oil demand hitting a plateau this decade is much more feasible than the market seems to think.” Read more
UK PM: “We can make Britain a global showcase for green innovation.”
February 4, 2013 Clean Energy
David Cameron, launching the Green Deal: “Make no mistake we are in a global race and the countries that succeed in that race, the economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient.” Read more
UK Green Deal gives no guarantee of saving participants money.
January 28, 2013 Clean Energy
Guardian: “The government’s flagship “green deal” home insulation programme provides no guarantee of saving money for cash-strapped households, and is unlikely to rescue many from fuel poverty, experts warned ahead of its formal launch on Monday.” Read more
‘Independent’ Green Deal regulator is owned by the Big 6 energy firms.
ClickGreen: “The so-called independent regulator of the Green Deal programme is actually controlled and owned by the ‘Big 6′ energy companies, ClickGreen can reveal. Gemserv is being paid £5.8 million of taxpayers’ money to administer the registration scheme, which will help households increase energy efficiency and cut down on their utility bills. But a clear conflict of interest has become apparent after it was found the largest shareholders in Gemserv are actually the energy companies themselves – British Gas, Scottish & Southern, ScottishPower, nPower, E.ON and EDF.” Read more
Green New Deal Company to launch in UK in 2011, consortium of backers agrees.
October 3, 2011 Clean Energy
The companies involved in the green deal financing consortium are: British Gas, Carillion, Clifford Chance, E.ON, EDF Energy, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Insta Group, Kingfisher, Linklaters, Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, Mark Group, npower, PwC, RBC Capital Markets and Scottish and Southern Energy.
Willingness of Japan’s citizens to ration energy reduces prospect of blackouts.
July 28, 2011 Clean Energy
Regions under conservation mandates appear to be meeting reduction targets and even exceeding them. In the Tokyo area, for example, the government is pushing to cut electricity use by 15 percent between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. on weekdays in order to prevent blackouts. The Japanese are bringing to the conservation drive, according to the NYT, “a characteristic combination of national fervor, endurance, sloganeering, technology and social coercion.”
700,000 more families fell into fuel poverty in 2009.
July 14, 2011 Clean Energy
Now one in five, 5.5 m homes, pay more than 10% of income on energy bills. And four of the Big 6 have yet to announce their price rises.
Microsoft and Google both give up on home energy monitoring.
July 1, 2011 Clean Energy
The challenge of making people interested in energy efficiency – or at least meters that cost $300 – has proven too much, greentechgrid reports.
Force energy companies to insulate houses, says UK Committee on Climate Change.
June 30, 2011 Clean Energy, Climate
The CCC wants the government to require energy companies to insulate every loft and fill every cavity wall within four years. The number of such installations fell by 30% from 2009 to 2010.