It’s time to accept that our experience of nuclear power has faded our romance and that our eye has wandered towards a more beautiful object for our affections: renewable power generated from wind turbines, solar panels, tides and waves. Most forward-thinking leaders in the energy industry are making plans to Read more…
As part of our work providing energy advice we often meet residents who have electric storage heaters installed their homes. Regrettably, it is less often that we meet anyone who is happy with this system. Storage heaters are notorious for releasing heat when its not needed, and then having no Read more…
29 September 2016 was a landmark day for the British people. Greg Clark, the newly appointed head of the newly formed department of Business, Energy and Industrial strategy, signed an agreement with EDF, a company owned by the French government and with the Chinese government as a 33% investor, to Read more…
The Age of the Atom was to herald a new dawn in humanity’s quest for energy. Euphoric reports at the time declared that this revolutionary new energy source was so abundant it would be “too cheap to meter“. Our energy worries, we were assured, were over forever… History of course, Read more…
The Conservative budget announcement in July was not good news for the renewables industry, nor for members of the public who are concerned about climate change, rising energy prices and the impact that extreme methods of extracting oil and gas will have on our air, water and soil (1,2). Support Read more…