From New Power in September 2019: This week The Advertising Standards Authority took a good look at claims that smart meters have environmental benefits. In response to complaints, it considered whether Smart Energy GB could stand up claims thata smart…
Editor’s blog
It’s time to talk to your neighbours about heating
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If you are a domestic gas customer, are you interested in using hydrogen or a heat pump instead? Will your neighbours give you the choice? You may have noticed that the debate over how to replace carbon emissions has reached…
Review: The Green Start-Up
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Juliet Davenport compares launching a company with jumping off a cliff, in ‘The Green Start-Up’, her new book for green entrepreneurs. She has drawn on her experience launching Good Energy in 1999 and working with other companies since then, in…
Come clean on gas boilers
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At around 1.6 million units annually, the UK’s boiler replacement market is huge. It was ‘world beating’ until 2017 (um, yay us?), when it was finally overtaken by China and North Korea. It was easily bigger than the next-largest markets…
Industry welcomes ‘Go To’ renewables plan – but warns the name undermines it
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The renewable energy industry has to ramp up installation rates to three or four times their current level for wind and solar to meet the EU’s renewable energy goals, delegates at Eurelectric’s annual meeting heard last week. The ambition is…
FROM THE ARCHIVE: When Bulb was a start-up
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In July 2016 New Power interviewed the founders of ‘challenger’ supplier Bulb. Download the full interview Bulb interview 2016
How inflexible fossil plant drives up energy costs – and how consumers can help
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An investigation now under way into how costs in the Balancing Market for electricity have been spiking reveals how inflexible fossil fuel plants help to drive up costs. The Balancing Market applies after the gate closes on trades between electricity…
Instead of fracking, get the nation behind renewables and networks
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The national desire to cut down the use of gas, especially Russian gas (although it represents just a small part of UK imports) have led some to suggest that fracking for gas in the UK may be the answer. Well,…
Measures to cut out SF6 in distribution networks ‘wholly inadequate’; planning loophole allows for use at high voltage
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Is the UK doing enough to reduce the use of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)? The characteristics of this gas make it highly effective for use in electrical switchgear – but it one of the most potent greenhouse gases, with an effect…
SMR reactors tend towards ‘business as usual’ for UK nuclear
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As Rolls Royce’s so-called ‘small modular reactor’ (SMR) technology takes steps towards being qualified and deployed in the UK it is beginning to look more like traditional nuclear generation. The company’s SMR reactor is among the leading UK SMR technologies,…