2013
UK Nuclear: Forefront to Backfoot
20th December 2013 | Peter Rolton: Chairman, Rolton Group
Jim Ratcliffe is a very wealthy man. This fact was evinced by his swift closure of the Grangemouth plant following strike action from UNITE back in October; the union rallied against planned changes to salaries and pensions, and by shutting the site down rather than enter into any sort of bargain he made it perfectly clear that financial security does not rank on his list of concerns.
Posts from 2013
UK Nuclear: Forefront to Backfoot
20th December 2013 | Peter Rolton
Jim Ratcliffe is a very wealthy man. This fact was evinced by his swift closure of the Grangemouth plant following strike action from UNITE back in October; the union rallied against planned changes to salaries and pensions, and by shutting the site down rather than enter into any sort of bargain he made it perfectly clear that financial security does not rank on his list of concerns.
Stoking the Fuel Poverty Fire
13th December 2013 | Peter Rolton
It’s been on the back burner for over a year now, but in the last week the heat has been turned up on proposals to redefine fuel poverty.
Power to the People
29th November 2013 | Peter Rolton
Between the end of WWII and the 1980s, the UK’s energy ran through a nationalised infrastructure, sharing a state-owned commonality with the majority of other British services and utilities.
Taking another look at ECO
15th November 2013 | Peter Rolton
The spotlight has been beaming down on green levies over the past few weeks; critics want them removed from consumer energy bills immediately to cut costs, whilst advocates argue that they are vital in the creation of a low carbon energy market.
Bemused observations on energy policy debate
11th November 2013 | Gearóid Lane
This week I am pleased to introduce a guest article written by Gearóid Lane, whose expertise on the subject of energy I can personally attest to. Formerly a member of the British Gas Executive Committee and member of the government’s Renewables Advisory Board, he is now Chief Executive Officer of AgilityEco, a company that harnesses the knowledge of its founders in the provision of services surrounding energy efficiency and facilitates eco projects that tackle systemic issues such as fuel poverty - Peter Rolton
The Rise of the Big 60,000
31st October 2013 | Peter Rolton
When debating issues surrounding the Big Six, it’s almost impossible not to refer to competition and the damaging absence of it within the UK energy sector.