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	<description>Life post oil and post carbon</description>
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		<title>We are not British Gas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Six months of behind the scenes work came to fruition two weekends ago when our gas systems (for customer registration and billing and so on) went live.
Our first &#8216;Green Gas&#8217; customers are with us now.  Me included I&#8217;m pleased to say.
While we shake things down we&#8217;re limiting the sign up rate to a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2010/02/02/we-are-not-british-gas/</link>
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		<title>Olympic sized Pork Pies anyone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week EDF (that big Olympic sponsor, and green flag waver&#8230;&#8230;.   ) announced (it appears), through the Evening Standard, that they&#8217;ve decided to walk away from a Wind turbine project to power the Olympic games in 2012.
To most people that may have been interesting but not such a big deal.  To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2010/01/29/olympic-sized-pork-pies-anyone/</link>
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		<title>Dale on Guardian &#8216;You ask, they answer&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiya all,
Just a quick heads-up &#8211; Dale is just about to take part in this week&#8217;s Guardian Environment &#8216;You ask, they answer&#8217; Q&#038;A session &#8211; could be interesting&#8230; If any of you fancy chipping in your 2 penneth, dive on in &#8211; the water&#8217;s lovely!  
EDITED TO ADD: The Q&#038;A session is now closed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/11/23/dale-on-guardian-you-ask-they-answer/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Green Gas&#8217; is here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;how green is it to supply gas&#8217; debate kicked off here last week, in response to some questions we asked of our customers.  Actually we had over 1400 responses and overwhelming support in principle.  And a lively debate followed, it even had our friends at Treehugger joining in&#8230;
I couldn&#8217;t say much last week except [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/11/21/green-gas-is-here/</link>
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		<title>Nobody in their right minds would think EDF is Green or British &#8211; according to the ASA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard in the news (In the Guardian,  Business Green, Campaign, Brand Republic) that the ASA have recently decided not to uphold the 149 complaints against EDF and their Green Britain campaign.
The ASA said:
 &#8221; ..we considered that consumers were unlikely to infer from the ads that EDF was a &#8216;green&#8217; company, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/10/28/nobody-in-their-right-minds-would-think-edf-is-green-or-british-according-to-the-asa/</link>
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		<title>Copenhagen here we come (well not me)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent some time in the last few weeks thinking about Copenhagen, should I go?  What could I do there?  Drive the Nemesis there maybe….
There&#8217;s lots of campaigns focussed on it right now, lots of people trying to show  politicians that this is what we all want.   And I hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/10/15/copenhagen-here-we-come-well-not-me/</link>
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		<title>Festival of Innovation and 500Kites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiya Folks, 
Paul here (back off my hols).
A couple of event announcements for our UK based readers. Firstly &#8211; I thought you might like to know about a public appearance of the Nemesis Wind Powered Car happening on the 12th/13th September at the Science Museum in Wroughton, Near Swindon in Wiltshire. It will be part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/09/04/festival-of-innovation-and-500kites/</link>
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		<title>Greenwash Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to declare today to be National Greenwash Day&#8230;

&#8230;to celebrate that relatively modern phenomenon of companies trying to sell themselves as being rather greener and more ethical than they really are. Today would be an apt day, it is after all – Green Britain Day.  Where&#8217;s the Greenwash in that?  Oh where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/07/10/greenwash-day/</link>
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		<title>The Green Union Hi Jack</title>
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Vive la différence
The most amazing thing has happened.
Our Green Union Jack – the one that Ecotricity&#8217;s been using for the last three years or so, has been &#8216;borrowed&#8217; by another energy company.
We&#8217;re used to the Big Six energy companies behaving badly, but this is something else.
One of them decided that they liked the idea of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/07/02/the-green-union-hi-jack/</link>
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		<title>Good (Energy) Lies – part two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The inconvenient facts&#8230;
I took some flack last week for my first post on this subject.  I expected to of course.  It&#8217;s not like I wasn&#8217;t advised against it.  My view is that something wrong has been going on and the whistle needed blowing on it – for the greater good.  Better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/05/21/good-energy-lies-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Good (Energy) Lies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something very strange/funny/quite awful has come to light in the last few weeks.
It starts with this:
For the last five years Good Energy (a small UK based green electricity supplier) has been claiming to retire 5% more ROCs than they are legally obliged to do.  Supposedly to encourage other people to build new green generators.
It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/05/12/good-energy-lies/</link>
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		<title>Woke up Sunday morning&#8230; with a price on my head!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[£85 Million to be precise.  Went to bed the night before feeling pretty normal and woke up in the Sunday Times Rich List.  What&#8217;s that all about?
I&#8217;m not flagging this here to promote it, or brag about it – it&#8217;s just that it&#8217;s out there and I think I should say something about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/04/29/woke-up-sunday-morning-with-a-price-on-my-head/</link>
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		<title>Top of the League again</title>
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Every year we publish what we think is a compelling statistic – the amount of money each electricity company in the UK spends building new sources of green electricity.  We express this number as £ per customer because we think that has most relevance for people.  In effect it tells you how much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/03/02/top-of-the-league-again/</link>
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		<title>It wasn&#8217;t ET &#8216;wat done it&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The slur on the driving/flying skills of all extra terrestrials was lifted today – first findings from the forensic examination of the damaged windmill bits are that it definitely wasn&#8217;t a collision of any kind. That lets the MOD off the hook too.
We&#8217;ve just had the interim report from ENERCON, the manufacturer of our wind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/02/10/it-wasnt-et-wat-done-it/</link>
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		<title>ROCs, REGOs and wind-powering GB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guys, just catching up on stuff, looks like a good time to jump in and try provide some answers to the questions on the &#8216;Why green electricity prices go up when brown prices do part 2&#8216; post. It was too big for a comment reply really  
Where to start&#8230; OK &#8211; ROCs and REGOs. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/02/03/rocs-regos-and-wind-powering-gb/</link>
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		<title>Dam Fuel Poverty &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dam Fuel Poverty Petition now live
There have been so many responses on this issue I hope you all won’t mind if I try respond &#8216;globally&#8217; in one new post.
Much of the debate taking place here seems to be over the potential environmental impact of the proposed Barrage and its technical feasibility.  I’m not even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/01/19/dam-fuel-poverty-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Mulder and Scully when you need them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crazy week last week.
It started on Sunday with the kind of phone call I never wanted to have, telling me that one of our turbines had lost a blade.  I use the word lost advisedly.
Our people were on site the same day, the manufacturers the next, and we set about looking for the cause. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/01/14/wheres-mulder-and-scully-when-you-need-them/</link>
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		<title>The truth is out there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
As you may have heard &#8211; we have been all over the news today!
The Sun got there first with a front page this morning.
Dale really wants to blog about this &#8211; but as you can imagine he has been inundated with media calls. He is drafting a post and as soon as he has finished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2009/01/08/the-truth-is-out-there/</link>
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		<title>Dam Fuel Poverty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Severn Barrage will cost about £15 Billion to build, will last 100 years and generate enough electricity to power over 4% of the UK &#8211; that’s enough for roughly 5 Million homes.
It’s got a lot going for it in that respect.
There are big questions over its impact on the ecology of the Severn Estuary, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/12/15/build-the-severn-barrage-and-end-fuel-poverty/</link>
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		<title>Watchdog interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Did an interview with BBC&#8217;s Watchdog the other day, they came to visit us here in Stroud. They&#8217;ve been on a bit of a crusade against the Big 6 by all accounts &#8211; and now they&#8217;ve decided to take a look at us Indies &#8211; to see if we offer an alternative!
They asked the &#8216;Green/Brown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/11/21/watchdog-interviewed-me-this-week/</link>
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		<title>Crazy guys jumping off our turbines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wind turbines &#8211; love ‘em or hate ‘em, would you jump off the top of one?
A bunch of crazy guys have been doing just that this weekend, from our turbine at Ecotech Swaffham, the world&#8217;s first ever legal base jump off a windmill apparently.   In fact this is the final round of UK [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/09/29/crazy-guys-base-jumping-off-our-turbines/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Offsetting just went mad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The subject of Carbon Offsetting seems to have come up recently as a result of the Greenbird record attempt, and the trip to Oz I didn’t make.  I’ve never been a fan of it (offsetting) that’s for sure. 
But I read something last week in the Guardian which I thought worth a mention.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/09/18/carbon-offsetting-just-went-mad/</link>
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		<title>Why green electricity prices go up when brown prices do &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A better explanation of our recent price rise
You may remember a post I wrote entitled &#8220;Why green electricity prices go up when brown prices do&#8221; in which I first attempted to explain this seemingly counter-intuitive situation.
I also recently wrote to all of our customers explaining that we needed to follow the recent price rises (of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/09/16/why-green-electricity-prices-go-up-when-brown-prices-do-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Can the Grid take it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted a couple of visions of garages of the future recently.
The first vision was of an internet café style ‘park and surf while you charge’ kind of thing.  Looked cool, not a bad first stab, but on further examination &#8211; it wasn’t it.
The second vision is an abandoned, moss grown relic.  The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/09/05/can-the-grid-take-it/</link>
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		<title>OFGEM plan to outlaw green electricity tariffs.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t get real green tariffs in the UK &#8211; all they’ll be able to get will be &#8216;green&#8217; tariffs where trees get planted or carbon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/08/19/ofgem-plan-to-outlaw-green-electricity-tariffs/</link>
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		<title>Micro Generation – The Emperor’s New Clothes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those things nobody ever speaks out against.  But does micro generation have real potential to help us diversify our energy supplies and fight climate change, or is it more like the Emperors new clothes, and nobody wants to be the first to admit it&#8217;s a hoax?
The answer is in the numbers, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/07/21/micro-generation-the-emperor-new-clothes/</link>
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		<title>Hysterical nonsense from Christopher Booker in the Daily Mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We published this on the Ecotricity website today, but in light of the fact that the Daily Mail didn’t publish my response to this collection of misinformation by Christopher Booker in a timely fashion &#8211; I thought I would reconstruct my comments here, where the editorial policy is slightly more balanced. Note to Christopher &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/06/26/hysterical-nonsense-from-christopher-booker-in-the-daily-mail/</link>
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		<title>A week in the life of&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been an interesting week in the world of renewable. As mentioned yesterday, the G published leaked details of the Government ‘Renewable Energy Strategy:
“Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution”
So &#8211; we may actually be entering into a second industrial revolution if the government gets stuck in with that £100 billion. They’re making all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/06/26/a-week-in-the-life-of/</link>
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		<title>Renewable Energy Strategy &#8211; actions speak louder than words!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government’s ‘Renewable Energy Strategy’ comes out tomorrow. Some details leaked in the G this weekend. “Revealed: UK’s blueprint for a green revolution”
The UK have had big plans before, though not this big &#8211; what we’ve always been missing is the guts to make them happen, to drive the change needed. That’s why we’ve missed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/06/25/renewable-energy-strategy-actions-speak-louder-than-words/</link>
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		<title>Part two of Feed In Tariffs – Do they work at Home?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-on post from my &#8216;What&#8217;s Wrong With Feed-in Tariffs&#8217; posting earlier.
It’s not un-common to hear people say ‘We need Feed in Tariffs in the UK, like they have in Germany – they’ve got umpteen Gigawatts of renewables from it’.  And fair enough they do.  It’s important not to confuse large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zerocarbonista.com/2008/05/21/part-two-of-feed-in-tariffs-do-they-work-at-home/</link>
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