Signing up to targets at Copenhagen will be meaningless

As the world’s nations prepare to negotiate at Copenhagen in December the specific negotiators will be concentrating on targets. Each major nation will have a different idea about which target is right for it, and each small nation will have more ambitious targets than each large nation.I expect that at the end of the negotiations [...]

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% [...]

National Energy Action’s plan for insulating the homes of the United Kingdom

Today in Brighton the National Energy Action Charity, a charity concerned with fuel poverty, launch their annual conference and if you are in Brighton and pop into their exhibition you will see some Genersys panels on display with some helpful Genersys staff you can answer your questions. Genersys does not make any sales through their [...]

Utility Disconnections

Times are hard and when times are hard things that we took for granted when times were good become precious desirable luxuries that we can no longer enjoy when times are hard.

The Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes

There is a United Kingdom organisation that in its quiet way does a great deal of good work in the field of emission savings by way of educating and allowing a place where information and ideas and proposals about energy and its efficiency can be exchanged between businesses concerned with energy in some way and [...]

What an annual £5000 energy bill means and what we can do about it

Yesterday I wrote about the spectre of £5,000 per annum energy bills for the average UK household. The figure was put out by an internet price comparison site, uSwitch with figures from Ernst & Young. It did not come as a surprise to me as my own analysis of the energy market has consistently come [...]

Annual £5,000 energy bill for households in ten years time

The average household in the United Kingdom in 2004 was paying £580 a year for its household energy bills, usually its gas and electricity bills. Today that figure has slightly more than doubled with the average household paying £1,243 a year. Recent calculations by Ernst & Young, one of the world’s top accounting firms, indicate [...]

Why such a long wait for smart meters?

I remember watching Joanne Carr of the charity National Energy Action explain (it must be more than eight or nine years ago) the benefits of smart meters to a group of the National Energy Action’s business supporters. I should explain that national Energy Action is one of those curious British institutions – a charity supported [...]

The Minister for Energy and Climate Changes speaks

Unfortunately there is little sign that the rich nations have any interest in reducing their emissions of green house gases

British Gas reduce their prices by 10% for gas but for the poor it will make no difference

Gas prices have risen and risen and risen again, and in the past few months the natural gas whole price has fallen and the United Kingdom’s six energy suppliers (I know there are a few more than six but six have 98% of the market) have come under pressure to reduce consumer gas prices. British [...]