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Community Energy: Re-energizing the Local Power Scene
5th January 2015 | Peter Rolton: Chairman, Rolton Group
I’ve been writing about the need for a reconfiguration of British energy for a long time. On the infrastructural side things are a mess, and they don’t look any better from the spare capacity perspective, nor from the fuel poverty angle.
Separating the Woodchip from the Trees
10th May 2013 | Peter Rolton
Biomass developments get a relatively high level of coverage in the field of sustainable technologies; some laud it as a major player in the move to a cleaner environment, while at the other end of the spectrum some brand it ‘Dirtier than Coal’.
Bursting the Carbon Bubble
22nd April 2013 | Peter Rolton
Fresh predictions of a worldwide economic collapse are beginning to gather pace, with warnings voiced that up to $6trn could be tied up in stranded carbon assets if the globe sticks to the 2050 carbon budget it has set of 886 GtC02, designated to the years between 2000 and 2050.
An Industry Powered by Scottish Spirit
19th April 2013 | Kate Roche
The Scotch whisky industry has been using its by-products for several years to save money and reduce the carbon emissions of its world-famous distilleries, capturing CO2 and converting it into animal feed.
Case Study: Straw Biomass
28th March 2013 | David Williams
This week we proudly present another guest blog, written by Chief Executive of Eco2 and Chair of the Welsh Government’s Energy and Environment Advisory Panel, David Williams.
The Contributions of Chris Huhne
15th March 2013 | Peter Rolton
If you type the name of Britain’s former Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne, into Google, you will have to trawl through several pages before finding any result which is unrelated to the penalty points scandal he has been embroiled in for more than two years.
Davey Falters in the Forum
22nd February 2013 | Kate Roche
When Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey opened the floor to questions about the Green Deal from the online forum Mumsnet, he worked hard to get users on-side, greeting everyone to whom he was responding personally and sprinkling his answers generously with friendly exclamation marks.