Self-production from users of sustainable sources of heat and power within energy efficient buildings has made striking progress over the last decade. We have moved from a simple range of promising technologies and ideas – taken up by a small…
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New Power: FEBRUARY ISSUE
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DATA: INTERCONNECTORS
INTERVIEW: Professor Steve Thomas
EDF “wouldn’t be unhappy if it didn’t have to build Hinkley. Because of the debt, because of the risk, because it doesn’t like EPRs…
“ I can’t believe the EC will complete the review in six months because it’s such a big precedent. You have 11 other countries all saying they want the British model for their programmes, so the Commission can’t just wave it through.”
ANALYSIS: Janet Wood looks at the prospects for new interconnectors
“Developers must balance the high reports from the Carbon Floor with regulatory risk, as the CPF could be removed for political reasons or eroded “
“the development of interconnector projects is being slowed by a lack of clarity regarding how these would be regulated “
REPORT: ‘Known unknowns’ hike DCC costs by 15% over three years
FEATURE: Demand side response – what works in North America
This and much more in this month’s New Power.
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The wind skills base needs both offshore and onshore development to thrive
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The government has signalled it understands the need for more funding to help the UK develop its offshore wind industry, but with onshore wind an established, secure source of power, it needs to consider fully the ramifications of cutting subsidies.…
What trilemma?
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The government has said for many years that it has three aims for energy policy: security of supply, affordability, and decarbonisation. It has been neatly summed up in recent years as the energy “trilemma”, which makes clear the inherent tensions…
Fracking: the water industry clarifies its position
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The UK water industry’s position on shale gas fracking – that there are risks but they can be mitigated – has led to both dismay and delight on each side of the debate. In the pro-shale gas extraction camp, there…
Big Six price rises and falls
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Company Increase, (electricity/gas), % Date Reduction, % Date British Gas 10.4/8.4 23 Nov 3.2 1 Jan EDF Energy 3.9 3 Jan E.On 3.7/4.6 18 Jan Npower 9.3/11.1 1 Dec 2.6 28 Feb SSE 8.20 15 Nov 3.5 24 Mar…
NEW POWER: January issue
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DATA: POWER PROJECT MONITOR INTERVIEW: RACHEL CARY, GREEN ALLIANCE “What’s causing the NGO community concern is that the [European Commission’s impact assessment for a new target] is only looking at 35, 40 or 45% [greenhouse gas] reduction – they are…
We must consider the total cost of infrastructure spending and its consumer impact
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Last month the National Audit Office (NAO) suggested that government needs to look more closely at how its policies on investing in the UK’s infrastructure affect customers’ pockets. The key points of the NAO’s report[1] were that the cost of…
Environment Committee ‘disingenuous and misleading’ on fossil subsidies, says Oil & Gas UK
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Gas and oil companies have accused Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) of being “disingenuous and misleading” in suggesting that the industry receives a subsidy. Industry body Oil and Gas UK said in a letter to the committee that it had…
Fuel poverty is bigger than the energy companies: government must share responsibility
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In September New Power interviewed Derek Lickorish, chair of the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group. He said: “If we are not careful we are seduced into the notion that this is all about the energy companies. That is very dangerous and…