The Government released their annual energy statement last week, right in the midst of a furore created by the opposing political parties trading blows over energy policy and the ‘Big Six’ beginning to detail their Autumn energy price increases. In the following blog I am going to look at the headline facts contained within the […]

2012 Positives in the UK The year just passed showed some encouraging signs for renewables in the UK; Installed capacity was up almost 25% from 2010 to 2011 topping 12,000MW. In September, early figures for 2012 showed this figure exceeding 14,000MW. Mainstays of the UK renewables mix continued to see considerable upticks in capacity, but microgeneration has […]

1. Fairer prices & more power to consumers OFGEM, which is the regulator for gas and electricity, is set to get sweeping powers to protect consumers from unfair increases in energy prices. It will be able to impose stricter fines and force energy companies to pay compensation to customers if they are ruled to have been […]

On Tuesday 22nd May, Edward Davey, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change published the first draft of the Energy Bill that could define the electricity production market place for many years to come. In the following post we have provided an overview of the bill, however it can be found in full […]

We’ve had a few days now to digest last week’s Budget announcement, and we’ve been thinking about what – if anything- was promised with regards to green energy and the environment. The government is under more pressure than ever to deliver environmental policies that give us any chance of meeting the UK’s climate change targets in […]

Perovskite is a photovoltaic crystalline material used in solar PV panels. Its crystals are thinner, more flexible and easier to manufacture than silicon crystals. It is already revolutionising solar technology and is one of the most promising developments in the whole of the renewables industry. What is perovskite? Perovskite is a unique combination formed of a number of […]

Merry Christmas everyone! The office will be closed from 4pm 23rd December, when the mince pie bingeing will commence. We have limited opening hours on the 28th, 29th and 30th and then we’ll be back on the 4th January ready to answer your calls and get some blogs ready for the coming year. 2016 at […]

The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), previously headed up by new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd, has been scrapped by incoming PM Theresa May. In a massive reshuffle, May has announced a new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), headed by Greg Clark MP, in a merger […]

Soon, gas won’t be the only form of energy produced in the North Sea. Scotland is to be home to the largest floating wind farm in the world – Hywind – featuring five 6 megawatt turbines. Developers have been granted a seabed lease for the site, 15 miles off the East coast. The turbines should […]

Hinkley C – Our first Nuclear Power plant in a Generation! The UK has utilised nuclear power to meet its energy requirements since 1956. Nowadays, the UK has 16 operational nuclear reactors situated across 9 power plants and these contribute about 19% of the electricity in our energy mix. Today, the Government announced that it […]