In the recent confected announcement from the Government supporting the growth of gas-fired power stations, we have once again seen energy used as an avatar for the Tory obsession with winding up the ‘woke’ brigade rather than making a serious contribution to solving the conundrum of keeping the lights on whilst lowering carbon emissions en-route […]
Author Archives: Sam Burch
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Feb
Feb
2023 heralded a record year for small-scale green energy and heat installations like rooftop solar and heat pumps, with more than 220,000 installations registered overall. It seems that there is a groundswell of interest in making our homes cleaner and greener amongst the general public, and indeed it would appear amongst our MPs that it is also […]
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Jan
Jan
We have entered 2024 with yet another increase to the #Ofgem energy price cap which will plunge more struggling families into debt this winter. It’s an all-too-familiar occurrence and the impact it will have on millions of people cannot be overstated – it’s why we reintroduced our Keeping Warm This Winter scheme across Wiltshire. To […]
So the famous five Tory leadership candidates are gradually being whittled down in a cross between the political equivalent of the Hunger Games and Love Island. One will emerge as our new Prime Minister and what do we know of their views on Climate change and the environment? So far, as we all bake in […]
It is a startling truism that one of the biggest blocks to the UK reaching its obligations to achieve net zero carbon status by 2050, is the fact that almost all the UK’s 29 million homes will need to be retrofitted in order to meet it, according to a Committee on Climate Change report. Of […]
Key take-aways: The government said it would look to increase the UK’s current 14GW of solar capacity, which it said held the potential to grow five-fold by 2035. This was a little vague for my liking, it did not specify a precise target. if you can’t measure it…you can’t manage it. ‘Has the potential’ to […]
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Aug
Aug
The current government’s policy to build, build, build in a bid to reduce the housing shortage may be misplaced, so says a new report from leading think tank the ‘UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence’. The report’s authors, a consortium of 14 institutions which includes the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, claim that efforts to […]
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Jul
Jul
By the time you have read this sentence around 18,000 tweets will have been sent worldwide. In fact, on average, around 6,000 tweets are posted every second which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year. Staggering, eh? Everyone is at it. When […]
