Posted on February 16, 2008 by robertkyriakides
Governments are notoriously reluctant to change. Some months ago I was talking to a Treasury official about the best ways to incentivise microgeneration and solar thermal in particular. I explained that I thought that a simple income tax allowance of the amount spent on a thermal solar system would be a good idea.
This is [...]
Filed under: Nicholas Stern, carbon emissions, climate change, energy, global warming, gordon brown, grants, microgeneration, solar, solar energy, solar panels, tax | Tagged: clear skies, incentives, income tax, low carbon building programme, PAYE, revenue, Stern Report, treasury | No Comments »
Posted on December 29, 2007 by robertkyriakides
Unfortunately in their search for the Holy Grail politicians have in turn adopted various environmentally produced energy technologies. The first to be adopted and then discarded were photovoltaic cells.
It is hard to explain photovoltaics in layman’s terms and can be quite hard to understand so if you don’t want to read the technical stuff, [...]
Filed under: Tony Blair, carbon emissions, electricity, grants, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: Becquerel, Co-Operative, Einstein, electrons, energy, grants, photons, photovoltaics, Planck, PV solar panels, Willoughby-Smith | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 20, 2007 by robertkyriakides
Gordon Brown has finally admitted it. He has not ruled out nationalising the Northern Rock. When you walk down a path putting one foot in front of another you should know where the path leads. When he and his chum Alistair Darling decided to rescue the bank, rather than the money of depositors of the [...]
Filed under: Alistair Darling, Northern Rock, gordon brown, grants, microgeneration, solar energy, solar panels | Tagged: Alistair Darling, gordon brown, Lord Truscott, low carbon building programme, microgeneration, Northern Rock | No Comments »
