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Renewable Energy Strategy - actions speak louder than words!

June 25, 2008 by dale

Filed under: Energy

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 - what we’ve always been missing is the guts to make them happen, to drive the change needed. That’s why we’ve missed targets before and why we’ll miss them again. Talk is one thing (and we’ve had plenty of it, low carbon economy this, climate change biggest threat that……. and so on) what we need is action. Continue reading “Renewable Energy Strategy - actions speak louder than words!”

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Part two of Feed In Tariffs – Do they work at Home?

May 21, 2008 by dale

Filed under: Energy

This is a follow-on post from my ‘What’s Wrong With Feed-in Tariffs’ 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 scale FITs with micro though.

The problem for onshore wind (large scale) in the UK is planning not financial and therefore FITs just can’t help. We need German planning laws to emulate German success, in large scale wind.

But what about micro generation; Are feed in tariffs the answer to better deliver this? Continue reading “Part two of Feed In Tariffs – Do they work at Home?”

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Onshore wind: Planning or Building, which one is the real problem?

May 12, 2008 by dale

Filed under: Energy

This was inspired by some stats that Stuart put in a comment on my blog post about Shell pulling out of offshore. Stuart, on the question of what the real problem for onshore wind is – you threw me for a day or so with your statistics from the BWEA, good source, hard to argue with. But on closer examination I think you’ve perhaps not read them quite right. Continue reading “Onshore wind: Planning or Building, which one is the real problem?”

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Hoodie Hugger meets Tree Hugger

April 14, 2008 by dale

Filed under: Energy

David Cameron meets Dale at GreenPark, ReadingI met the man himself last week, in Reading at our Green Park wind turbine – David Cameron was in the ‘hood’ doing local political stuff and asked to have a closer look at our mill - so I showed him round. I’m glad I did.

We talked about the 1,000 homes the turbine can power every year and other bits and pieces Continue reading “Hoodie Hugger meets Tree Hugger”

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Zero Carbonista

Dale Vince This blog is about answers to the big questions - how will we keep the lights on, what kind of cars will we drive (will we drive?) and how will we feed ourselves - in a post oil world, and a world where we can't afford to keep burning things and throwing things away. Energy, Transport and Food are the three big issues.

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