BHESCo Communications and Communities Director, Ollie Pendered, has been appointed to lead the Customer Services sub-group of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), working group on community energy grid connections. Ollie’s role is to represent community groups that work with the distribution network operators (DNO) in setting up Read more…
The long awaited announcement came from the Department of Energy and Climate Change today. The renewable heat incentive (RHI) for domestic properties has come into effect on 9 April 2014. This subsidy makes solar thermal and biomass (wood pellet) burners financially attractive alternatives to fossil fuels for home heating. The Read more…
Brace yourself, there’s another £17 billion in national spending cuts predicted for this year. Half of the cuts will be to benefits, like the National Health Service. This government has been relentless in pursuing its agenda of protecting their ideology at the cost of poor and vulnerable people, especially the Read more…
The autumn statement was released with grand plans for reducing our energy bills by transferring the energy company’s obligation (ECO) to the taxpayer. Energy companies have succeeded in lowering their liability to finance the cost of providing insulation, new boilers and draught-proofing for struggling families and vulnerable people in communities Read more…
This week, the Government announced that the taxpayer would be subsidising the construction of a £16 billion, 3.3GW new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. The deal was stuck with EDF, the French state owned utility. In the wake of the disaster at Fukishima, with dangerous levels of Read more…