Hard on the heels of a record Olympics for the Brits…….:)

I’m off to Oz in a few days to join the Greenbird team and attempt to take the world land speed record – powered only by the wind.

Greenbird,  the awesome looking craft in the picture above, we named as a nod to Donald Campbell and his historic Bluebird.  We reckon the world is at a watershed, the age of fossil fuels is passing and we’re moving (back) to the age of renewable energy  – Greenbird  symbolises this perhaps better then anything else.

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OFGEM recently released an outline of their proposed new green electricity accreditation scheme … but…

…OFGEM’s idea for regulating green electricity tariffs is to ban them!

Their new rules will ensure customers can’t get real green tariffs in the UK - all they’ll be able to get will be ‘green’ tariffs where trees get planted or carbon gets offset - cuddly, stupid, and quite pointless ‘green’ tariffs.

This is how OFGEM think they’re going to straighten out consumer confusion – by redefining green tariffs as being about anything but investment in new sources of green electricity.
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