Welsh Government Invests £34m to cut carbon emissions

In line with the Scottish Goverment’s recent announcement that it was investing in a Scottish and Southern Energy and University of Strathclyde project Centre for Renewable Energy Excellence (CEERE) in Glasgow – the Welsh Government has come out and backed a similar scheme. The Low Carbon Research Institute (LCRI). This is a Welsh university research [...]

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Invaluable Advice from the Energy Retail Association (ERA)

If truth be told there are a number of these consumer representative organisations out there – all undertaking extremely worthy work and research in order to keep the energy firms on their toes and save us a bit of cash on our cheaper gas and electrcity bills. However, by far the most comprehensive and sensible [...]

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Energy Bills Warning As Fixed Rates Deal Ends

As you have probably read in your newspaper today, OFGEM is warning UK consumers that they should be seriously considering switching energy suppliers in the next few months. This is because the popular fixed price energy tariffs offered by some of the biggest energy suppliers are coming to an end in August. Many people signed [...]

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Tendering for Energy

Major companies are finding Tendering for energy contracts a little more daunting than usual this weather due to a number of reasons, firstly the recession has hit all major businesses along with all the small ones. In fact no business is immune to this and the energy sector is different. Another reason (well this is [...]

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UK Consumers: Who owns your energy?

Understandably, as consumers we are very much focused on getting the cheapest gas and electricity bills that we can. There are very few of us that actually give any thought to the ‘bigger picture’ of who we are actually paying to supply our energy. This is a particular issue in these difficult economic times – [...]

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Follow the Green Energy Sector on Twitter

‘Micro blogging’ website Twitter has exploded in popularity over the past year. The energy sector is well represented, principally with green thinkers all sharing ideas and opinions. It seems however, that many major energy companies are still trying to grasp how to deal with this phenomenon – only a few are represented.
We thought that it [...]

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Smart Metering in all UK homes by 2020

The UK government announced yesterday that they have passed the necessary legislation for the use of ’smart meters’ in every UK home by 2020. What is so revolutionary about this move is that it will allow consumers to take control of their own energy usage, and put an end to estimated bills.
This has been a [...]

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Green Policies Central to Upcoming UK Budget

Green Policies in UK Budget
In an echo of President Obama’s initiatives of a few months ago, the upcoming April 22nd UK budget, to be delivered by Chancellor Alistair Darling, is set to incorporate green initiatives as a central axis of a program to boost the UK economy.
According to an interview in The Independent, the government [...]

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Did plans to provide poor with cheap electricity work?

Did you benifit from cheap electricity?
In 1997 it was stated that an independent company was going to provide the poor with cheap electricity by cutting their bills by 10% and wipe out any existing debts, the nonprofit making company would plan to provide over 1 million homes – that would allow them to undercut the [...]

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UK Wind Turbines

The gails and winds that sweep across the United Kingdom every day can be harnessed by wind turbines to provide huge amounts of electricity. Wind turbines situated in suitable area’s already provide a small, but growing percentage of the UK’s energy, and are used successfully [...]

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