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The Energy Summit- the Full Outside Story
‘Someone’s got to be summonsed, and that was decided upon’, declared Stanley Holloway in his recitation ‘Albert and the Lion’. In his case, young Albert had been eaten by the lion: at the energy summit...
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Night of the Evil Price Rises…
An energy company gives a customer a helping hand Last week in Parliament we debated energy prices… for a whole afternoon. I had the mixed pleasure of sitting through most of the debate and said my...
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When the Levy Breaks
For those over 45 Not much blogging going on over the last three weeks, I am afraid. This was primarily due to sitting on the balcony in our holiday apartment, watching the precise manoeuvres of the...
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Price Rises and a World Beyond Levies
Another day, another price rise…well two of them, to be exact. And as I indicated in a recent post, they both follow SSE in placing an identified proportion of the ‘reason’ for the price rise on green...
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That #combishambles: what the tea-leaves say
Seems like an age ago doesn’t it? But it was, actually, only two weeks ago that I sat in the Commons Chamber to hear David Cameron tell us in response to a fairly random PM’s Question that ‘we will...
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The mysterious cloth that obscures backsides (tariffgate related)
Some interesting spin on the fall-out from ‘tariffgate’ appeared in the ‘Times’ on Friday. According to the piece (here £) , ‘David Cameron and Nick Clegg are poised to agree a mechanism that would...
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Not so smug please
David Cameron: you crowed about your ‘involvement’ with getting customers cheapest energy prices at PMQs this afternoon. Here’s the reality. Leaving aside for a moment the fact that what you proposed...
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Come on down, the price remains high…
Well, too many announcements on one day from DECC and the Treasury to easily contemplate. Even seasoned energy-geeks like Rich Hall (worth following his energy tweets on @richonlyinname are feeling...
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Needed: Smarter Thinking on Smart Meters
In case you missed it because you were quite reasonably sitting on a beach, you should know that , as of the middle of August, a “great leap forward” occurred towards the roll out of Britain’s £12bn...
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Freezes, geeks and voltage optimization.
I’m back from several days at the Labour Party conference, spent largely, I must admit, at some of the less obviously crowd-pulling fringe meetings and roundtables that conference always features,...
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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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Latest News: green levies not to be in green levy review!
More I-made-it-up-on-the-way-in energy policy from David Cameron: this time, the commitment in last week’s PMQs to review green levies. This policy seems to have been made following a pincer movement...
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They think it’s all over, but it isn’t!
It’s all getting a bit complicated. Energy policy which needs, one way or another, long-term vision and a reasonable level of security seems to be going short-term and getting bumpy. Not so much as a...
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A word on behalf of ECO – we may be sorry when it’s gone
I should think that, by the time you read this, we will be about to hear or will have heard the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (now effectively a second budget). I have no idea what will be in it,...
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Why ECO should become ECO
By way of a cheery goodbye to 2013, Damian Carrington reported in the Guardian on December 30th that (according to a compilation of Parliamentary answers and latest DECC official statistics) loft...
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Finally – energy efficiency regulations emerge un-pickled
Finally, stumbling over the line six weeks or so before pre-election purdah puts everything into mothballs, the regulations requiring landlords, by 2018, to ensure their rented properties exceed a...
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Finally – energy efficiency regulations emerge un-pickled
Finally, stumbling over the line six weeks or so before pre-election purdah puts everything into mothballs, the regulations requiring landlords, by 2018, to ensure their rented properties exceed a...
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Finally – energy efficiency regulations emerge un-pickled
Finally, stumbling over the line six weeks or so before pre-election purdah puts everything into mothballs, the regulations requiring landlords, by 2018, to ensure their rented properties exceed a...
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