Blog posts with the tag: "Energy"
Wednesday 27 February 2013
The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) recently published another excellent report (they are very prolific!). This one, “Calculating the Nation’s Annual Energy Efficiency Investments” by Skip Laitner undertook the ambitious task of documenting the annual investment in energy efficiency in the USA and the benefits. It found that in 2010 the USA…
Tuesday 19 February 2013
OFGEM (the energy regulator) is getting a lot of press today as once again it has highlighted the impending power crunch as the ‘supply margin’, the excess of available electricity supply over peak demand, continues to fall as large coal fired power plants come off-line due to the EU Large Combustion Plant Directive and older…
Monday 18 February 2013
We know that buildings use about (40)% of all energy use and we also know that the energy efficiency of buildings can be greatly improved, often just by better monitoring and controls with low capex and fast paybacks. Savings of 20% or more can often be achieved by better control strategies and recommissioning. New design…
Tuesday 5 February 2013
So the truth is out on nuclear decommissioning. The bill for cleaning up Sellafield alone (so that excludes the actual power stations themselves) is likely to hit £70 billion and every project is late so who knows what the final bill will be. And that is only Sellafield, it does not cover the cost of decommissioning the nuclear stations…
Monday 4 February 2013
Global new investment in renewable energy has risen from $22 billion in 2004 to $211 billion in 2010[1] driven almost entirely by subsidies. Subsidies have been justified by the perceived need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to combat global warming and the need to support renewable generation technologies until they are cost-effective. Now the on-going…
Dr Steven Fawkes
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