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Things are not as they seem (3): The Levy Cap, Now with Added Geek Warning
Yesterday, we finally received all the details on the Energy Bill, both inclusions and omissions. The Bill, its explanatory notes, all the accompanying documents will, I’m sure, make for some heavy...
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That Levieson Report (levies on Demand Side Reduction finance, that is)
By way of a postscript on my blog piece on renewables and the levy control mechanism, the consultative document on Energy Demand Reduction comes tumbling out. That there is a consultative document ,...
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When is tax and spend not tax and spend? When it’s pro gas
One thing sitting with your nose pressed very close to a book of legislative clauses for three weeks is get you thinking about some of the more arcane bits of what is in front of you. There are...
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Indexing: the cuckoo pushes another fledgling out of the nest…
The news that the UK Government has apparently agreed yet another wheelbarrow-full of money in underwriting to get the one remaining near-term nuclear power plant prospect off the ground (here) might...
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The knowns, the unknowns and that fabulous nuclear contract (with apologies...
We know both are Donald… How can we characterise the much trumpeted ‘deal’ on Hinkley C now that it has (unlike poor Tian Tian’s baby) actually emerged? Well it’s not much of a deal I guess, more a...
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On Wind, Cameron and Machiavelli
Learning from the greats? So from 2015 onwards, if the Conservatives run the country, there will be no more onshore wind turbines. Or there might be, if developers of onshore farms, or even single...
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Why field solar might need Michael Gove
I know, it’s rooftop solar, but it is Michael Gove… The solar trade world is rightly up in arms about the latest lurch in solar PV funding policy from DECC. This time it is set to tip field solar...
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No Michelin stars for the fat dud
The Financial Times ran a piece yesterday, regrettably behind a paywall, that featured the findings of Aurora Energy Research. As the FT quaintly put it, ‘the pot of money ministers have set aside to...
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Renewable energy targets: how Goldilocks got eaten by a bear
Goldilocks The bear So how are we doing with that all important target of 15% of final energy use to be provided by renewables by 2020? It is a target agreed with our EU partners and I suppose some...
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