2014
Peter Rolton, Interview with BBC Radio Northampton
14th November 2014 | Peter Rolton: Chairman, Rolton Group
News broke this week of a report from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) in which the potential for shale gas exploitation in the UK was put under extreme scrutiny; in particular, the level of emphasis that has been placed on fracking as some sort of silver bullet for energy issues has been fiercely criticised.
Posts from 2014
Peter Rolton, Interview with BBC Radio Northampton
14th November 2014 | Peter Rolton
News broke this week of a report from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) in which the potential for shale gas exploitation in the UK was put under extreme scrutiny; in particular, the level of emphasis that has been placed on fracking as some sort of silver bullet for energy issues has been fiercely criticised.
Does The Apprentice Need to Learn Some New Skills?
10th October 2014 | Peter Rolton
Next Tuesday, the ominous tones of Prokofiev’s 'Dance of the Knights' will flood out into living rooms across the UK, and this can mean only one thing: Lord Sugar is back to cast judgement over the most recent crop of Apprentice hopefuls.
Engendering Equality in Engineering
26th September 2014 | Peter Rolton
British engineering is facing a serious skills shortage. Yesterday, the thinktank IPPR published a report claiming that ‘an additional 87,000 graduate level engineers will be needed in the UK each year between now and 2020’ in order to meet growing demand, but that ‘the higher education system is only producing 46,000 engineering graduates annually’. Well as a starter for ten, that maths doesn’t look good.
UK Housing: Making the Long Journey Home
5th September 2014 | Peter Rolton
When the recession hit, it wiped out livelihoods and decimated entire markets. In the face of a global slump, Britain’s housing sector was no exception; buyers couldn’t afford to buy and builders couldn’t afford to build.
Tesla Motors and the EV Revolution
29th August 2014 | Tom Warwick
Thanks to Rolton Group’s activity in the energy, renewables and automotive sectors, people outside the industry always ask the same three questions when I explain what I do for a living: Do wind turbines work? Should I put PV on my house? and; Is China doing all this “green stuff” too?
Getting With the Times: The Implications of 21st Century Technology
15th August 2014 | Peter Rolton
Spurred on by my recent 2am meeting with colleagues in South Korea, which I was able to attend via video conference call from our office in Northamptonshire, I have recently been considering the opportunity that modern technology affords business to improve efficiency and cut costs.