David Cameron – Mythmonger
Energy
David Cameron’s remarks yesterday to the liaison committee of MPs about renewable energy might just play a big part in his downfall at the general election.
His comments were contradictory at best, they laid bare once again the monumental lie that was his promise to lead the greenest government ever, and – perhaps more importantly – ignored a growing tide of feeling in Britain that we need to properly tackle climate change and embrace renewable energy.
Cameron is really out of step with the country on green issues.
This is the year in which membership of the Green Party has doubled; the year in which the IPCC made it clearer than ever that we have to completely give up fossil fuels by 2050 or face catastrophic climate consequences; the year in which climate change made itself more than evident as temperatures in Europe hit their highest since the 1500s. (more…)
ecobonds are back
Energy
About this time last year, we launched our first ecobond – a fairly radical idea at the time.
We had three principle aims:
- To give our customers the chance to share in the financial benefits of our work and the green energy revolution generally, without having to put things on their roof tops (which doesn’t work for everyone).
- To cut out the middlemen bankers who generally charge much more to borrowers than they pay to savers.
- And to raise new sources of finance to speed up the rate at which we can build new sources of green energy. Bridging our ‘funding gap’.
And when we launched it this time last year we were both excited and a little anxious, as to how it might be received. (more…)
It wasn’t ET wot dunnit (sorry to say)…
Energy
Hi All, you may remember back in January 09 we had a blade incident at one of our wind parks, one fell off and one got bent. One was reportedly missing from the scene and then ‘returned’ – but that was just the long grass hiding it.
Without an obvious reason, like lightning for example, we were stumped for a few weeks and into that vacuum stepped a number of ideas as to probable cause. And the story grew from there, and flew round the world.
We promised we’d publish the final Health & Safety report as soon as we got it, and this has taken quite an incredible length of time to get – we got it last week. So here it is.
Where’s Mulder and Scully when you need them?
Energy
Crazy week last week.
It started on Sunday with the kind of phone call I never wanted to have, telling me that one of our turbines had lost a blade. I use the word lost advisedly.
Our people were on site the same day, the manufacturers the next, and we set about looking for the cause. BTW, what we found, just to clear that up… 🙂 , was one blade at the foot of the tower (whole), one badly mangled but still attached and one apparently unharmed and still attached.
Next thing we knew reports of UFOs in the area (at the right time) started to appear in the local press and on the web, and grew in number. (more…)
The truth is out there
Energy
As you may have heard – we have been all over the news today!
The Sun got there first with a front page this morning.
Dale really wants to blog about this – but as you can imagine he has been inundated with media calls. He is drafting a post and as soon as he has finished it will go up here.
If you want to ask any questions or want to speculate or provide any information in the meantime – please feel free to post your comments here.
Be sure to check the ‘UFO’ damage mystery round-up over on the main Ecotricity site.
UPDATE: Dale has now written a post about this – “Where’s Mulder and Scully when you need them?”
Paul
Onshore wind: Planning or Building, which one is the real problem?
EnergyThis was inspired by some stats that Stuart put in a comment on my blog post about Shell pulling out of offshore. Stuart, on the question of what the real problem for onshore wind is – you threw me for a day or so with your statistics from the BWEA, good source, hard to argue with. But on closer examination I think you’ve perhaps not read them quite right. (more…)
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