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UK Carbon Budget 2010: Winners and Losers
Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
You win some and you lose some, especially in a recession, but is your company one of 2010’s Carbon Budget winners or losers?
The Winners
The biggest winner was offshore wind power. Seen as the ultimate anti-nimby renewable energy source due to being located out to sea (getting around local planning obstacles and community protests), wind [...]
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What The UK Carbon Budget 2010 Means For Small & Medium Businesses
Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
Did Alistair Darling leave anything sweet for your business in 2010’s Carbon Budget? Probably not.
There was plenty for small and medium businesses to digest in this year’s traditional budget, especially regarding the new National Investment Corporation, doubling the annual investment allowance and the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme, but there were little in the Carbon Budget [...]
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UK Needs To Build Two New Nuclear Power Stations Every Year… Forever!
Posted on 19. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
In order to meet its carbon reduction targets, the UK must build two new nuclear or CCS-equipped coal power stations every year, starting right now and continuing indefinitely - and do a whole lot more besides.
UK energy policy is failing by not facing up to the realities that its aim of an 80% reduction in [...]
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Let Battle Commence: Green ‘Buy America’ Will Kick-Start Carbon Trade Wars
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
After the collapse of the Copenhagen conference, there was one prediction which Energy-Saving News felt was easy to make: that a new era of green carbon tariffs in developed countries on dirty imports from developing nations was at hand. After recent comments from UK politicians suggesting a direction towards such steps, the battle in the [...]
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UK Energy Efficiency Home Loans Take A Lesson From The Carbon Trust
Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Ross.
Smart, forward-thinking businesses have been doing it for years. An interest-free Carbon Trust loan of up to
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UK and India Proves That Not All Of Copenhagen Was All Talk And No Action
Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Ross.
Copenhagen was full of hot air, right? Commitments by developed and developing nations fell short of the mark then and have since been further scaled back, correct? There’s no hope for further progress on the international response to climate change, is there?
Some countries have other ideas.
The Copenhagen agreement was a complicated beast, and although most [...]
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The Low Carbon Economic Area Car Crash
Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by Ross.
The UK government concept of Low Carbon Economic Areas is now looking like the ultimate in Whitehall greenwashing, and whilst the first blunder looked like the government had fallen asleep at the wheel, the latest news would suggest that they don’t know how to drive the car at all.
The concept of Low Carbon Economic Areas [...]
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UK Regulator Says Free Market Has Failed And The Lights Will Go Out
Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Ross.
UK energy market regulator Ofgem, once the strongest proponent of applying free market economics to energy companies, has waved a white flag and acknowledged that the system is failing the country, and that UK energy prices will go up by 20%.
In an amazing about-turn, Ofgem is now recommending a new part-nationalisation of the energy markets [...]
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Street Lighting Escapes From CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Ross.
Stargazers hopeful that the drive for cost-cutting and energy saving at council level would result in the removal of street lighting, or its upgrading to more energy efficient and directional lighting technologies, were dealt a blow today as the final draft of the UK Government’s flagship cap-and-trade scheme landed in Parliament.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, [...]
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CBI Misses Point: Energy Efficiency = Competitive Advantage
Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by Ross.
The UK is only on track to meet its self-imposed carbon reduction targets because of the current recession, leading the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) to issue a stark and misguided choice in the aftermath of the failed Copenhagen conference: maintain competitive advantages or chase carbon targets.
The UK economy has suffered its longest recession on [...]
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Secret: There’s No Such Thing As Green Business
Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by Ross.
Green your business by using less energy. Be a more environmentally-friendly company by greening your supply chain. Become a shining green beacon of economic enlightenment by making more from less recycling what you have left over and encouraging your consumers to recycle your product once its finish being useful to them too. Your business must [...]
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