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Three months after the Fukashima nuclear reactor caught fire, Germany decided to phase out nuclear power. The decision stunned Europe’s energy policy community. Nuclear presently provides a quarter of Germany’s electricity – how would it plug the gap?
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Last night (Thursday, 21 July 2011), Prashant Vaze and I held a launch event for our book.
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This is a summary and analysis of UK’s white paper on Electricity Market Reform and Renewables Roadmap, published this week.
read more »This is a commentary on the UK government’s new microgeneration strategy. It is good that it recognises the need to address non-financial barriers, but lack of strong regulatory framework will not deliver microgeneration or climate protection.
read more »The USA installed 1.1Gw of new wind power capacity in the first quarter of 2011. A further 5.6Gw is under construction and construction of the first US offshore wind farm will begin this autumn. Meanwhile, Washington State now has a law saying that it will phase out coal power by 2025.
read more »The French government has called for tenders for 3Gw of offshore wind off France, and has given a grant to GDF Suez for a district heating network in Paris, which will use renewable heat.
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This is a paper that the three authors of the Repowering Communities book discussed with UK government officials and other experts at a seminar on 1 November 2010. It covers examples of which local governments are doing best on energy efficiency and renewables, and makes some recommendations.
read more »This week, I was taken on a tour of properties owned by Islington Council. Islington is an area of London with many council home. The borough council was run by the Liberal Democrats until May 2010. However, in the local elections, it reverted to Labour control – it has been run by Labour for most of the last few decades. The Liberal Democrat leader, Terry Stacy, was personally very committed to action on climate and fuel poverty, and the new Labour leader, Catherine West, appears to be the same.
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UK district heating schemes is an idea whose time has come. Those in Sheffield and Aberdeen are discussed in this article.
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