Lord Ravensdale: ‘The next government must move quickly to provide certainty for UK solar’
As a chartered engineer with over a decade of experience working in the energy sector, I know how important it is for investors to have certainty to deliver infrastructure at the scale needed to supply the power that the grid will need for the future, fight climate change and deliver energy security for the UK. […]
The transition to renewable energy should be managed carefully
Nothing is truly predictable in electoral politics, but the chances of Labour overcoming a record-breaking electoral deficit to win the next general election look much higher than they did three and a half years ago, when Boris Johnson won his Brexit majority. Sir Keir Starmer, then, is preparing for government by rolling out, little by […]
Comment: The Tories are paying the Chinese billions to avoid democratising the energy industry
As democratised solar energy takes off in California, Germany and Spain, the government has signed us up to decades of expensive, top-down nuclear power
Comment: Time to rekindle the coal industry
Coal has traditionally been criticised as a fuel source – but new clean coal technologies could be better for the UK than wind or solar power.
MPs: Clumsy ministers have undermined solar investment
Tim Yeo, chair of the environmental audit committee, gives his judgement on the government’s cuts to solar energy tariffs:
Labour: More measured solar proposals needed from ministers
Shadow energy and climate change secretary Caroline Flint responds to the high court’s ruling that cuts to solar tariff payments are legally flawed:
Friends of the Earth: Damaging solar changes should be stopped
Friends of the Earth executive director Andy Atkins comments after the government’s high court defeat on solar feed-in tariffs:
Govt shamed over solar incentives after high court defeat
MPs have poured scorn on the government’s “clumsy” handling of their incentives for solar energy installations, one day after the high court ruled ministers’ approach unlawful.
Opposition mounts over government’s solar energy ‘betrayal’
Ministers are facing mounting opposition to quicker-than-expected cuts to solar energy subsidies.
Comment: Government is killing solar industry
The government has left the solar industry in complete chaos. Its green credentials are in tatters.
