Mr Darling’s support for the environment

When Alistair Darling was in charge of the Department of Trade & Industry he, together with Peter Truscott and the Department’s civil servants conceived a programme to incentivise the use of micro generated renewable energy which did, in my judgement as someone who runs one of the United Kingdom’s few microgeneration industries, did more harm [...]

Is Ed Miliband Christopher Booker in disguise?

I’ll get to the headline eventually but to do so I must first explain something.

Energy and Emissions Policy of the Conservative Party – the missing bits

If the Conservative Party form the next government of the United Kingdom what will be their specific environmental and climate change policies? So far the Conservatives have not published a cohesive strategy, neither have they provided details on their likely energy policy, and energy policy will be an essential part of their climate protection ideas. [...]

Professor’s MacKay’s nuclear vision

It is difficult for a nation to plan its energy requirements for the future and that difficulty is made harder when that nation cannot decide upon a settled energy policy. In the United Kingdom there are so many conflicting policy proposals that I despair of the United Kingdom ever establishing an energy policy which secures [...]

Fuel bills and bankers bonuses

If you live in the United Kingdom and do not have any form of microgeneration, such as solar panels, you are now paying more for your household energy than ever before. Since we founded Genersys in 2000 household energy bills have risen by 88%. Gas bill have risen by 120% and electricity bills by 48% [...]

Electric cars – part of the solution

In China there are plans to launch a new electric car which can hold five passengers and travel 250 miles on a single charge. It also might be fully charged in an hour. If the claims are justified the E6 will transform the automotive market and the technology I am sure will be adopted by [...]

Rising energy bills and the scramble for energy

When I first started to write about the forthcoming energy crisis, many years ago, it was because it was something that I had studied and analysed; it was my reason for founding Genersys, a renewable energy company; in this case the analysis created the decision, rather than the decision to found Genersys creating my views [...]

No coal burning at Kingsnorth yet; a sliver of good news

A small sliver of nearly good news (well, actually not bad news) has just been reported. E.on, the multinational energy firm and one of the big six United Kingdom energy suppliers, has decided to defer its plans to build a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth. It is not more than a sliver of [...]

Port Talbot Biomass Power Station gets its permit

I have always thought that biomass power stations, like that one that is proposed in Port Talbot, are a mistake; they start from the premise that biomass is renewable and sustainable and that biomass power stations will ensure that the trees used are replaced with new planting. I do not think that it is as [...]

How typhoons are made and flooding

The Philippines has been hit by a second typhoon. On 23rd September typhoon Ketsana started in the ocean known as the Philippine Sea to the east of Manila. It past over Manila depositing huge and unprecedented amounts of rainfall (I have already described the causes and effects on this you can read my blog), and [...]