Posted on December 10, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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 [...]
Filed under: Alistair Darling, climate change, electricity, global warming, microgeneration, renewables | Tagged: peter truscott, pre budget statement 2009 | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 5, 2009 by robertkyriakides
I’ll get to the headline eventually but to do so I must first explain something.
Filed under: PV, climate change, electricity, grants, nuclear energy, solar, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: christopher booker, Ed Miliband, flat earth brigade, microgeneration grants UK | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 9, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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. [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, heat, microgeneration, pollution, renewables | Tagged: conservative party energy, genersys, policy | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 27, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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 [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, genersys, microgeneration, renewables | Tagged: clean renewables, COP of heat pumps, heat pumps, nuclear power stations, nuclear waste, professor david mackay | 7 Comments »
Posted on October 22, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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% [...]
Filed under: carbon dioxide, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, fuel poverty, gas, microgeneration, oil | Tagged: bankers bonuses, energy price increases, fuel bills | 6 Comments »
Posted on October 21, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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 [...]
Filed under: PV, carbon emissions, cars, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, pollution, wind turbines | Tagged: air quality, climate protection, electric cars, thermal inversion | 5 Comments »
Posted on October 10, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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 [...]
Filed under: Coal, climate change, electricity, energy, fuel, gas, microgeneration, power, renewables, solar, solar energy, wind turbines | Tagged: Chile, China, japan, ofgem, project discovery, scramble for energy, uranium | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 9, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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 [...]
Filed under: Coal, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, microgeneration, natural gas | Tagged: clean coal technology, cliamte change protests, coal burning power stations, e.on, Greenpeace, Kingsnorth, sliver of good news | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 6, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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 [...]
Filed under: Climate Change and health, PV, biomass, carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, climate change, electricity, energy, microgeneration, solar energy, solar panels, wind turbines | Tagged: benzoa pyrenes, employment at port talbot power plant, Port Talbot, port talbot power plant, port talbot power station, Prenergy | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 5, 2009 by robertkyriakides
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 [...]
Filed under: climate change, electricity, energy, global warming, weather | Tagged: flood safety tips, hurricanes, Ketsana, Manila, Parma, thunderstorms, typhons | 6 Comments »
