‘One in, one out’ – bonfire of the vanities or Pandora’s box?
The coalition government made great play of the need to cut red tape and costs from new regulation, both before and after the general election. It believes legislation should be periodically reviewed...
View ArticleSimplify the CRC but don’t drop the cap!
The air has been thick ahead of the summer parliamentary recess with talk of a fundamental review of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme. Some are even calling for it to be...
View ArticleBritain’s energy challenge
Energy policy in the UK is at a crossroads, and the decisions made now will reverberate for decades. At least 43 gigawatts of new electrical generation capacity, equivalent to half of Britain’s current...
View ArticleCRC RIP?
On Friday, the Committee on Climate Change was supposed to advise the government on how tightly it should cap carbon emissions under the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme when...
View ArticleTrading away the future
2010 has been a bad year for the climate. Not just for climate treaty negotiations – few expect a deal in Cancún in Mexico this December after the failure in Copenhagen last December. But also for the...
View ArticleTalk is cheap – but so is energy efficiency
The last time energy efficiency was a high profile issue was during the notorious oil shocks of the 1970s and the three-day week. But here we are again. This time round, the ‘trinity’ of rising energy...
View ArticleDECC is chasing its own tail on CRC simplification
I think the energy and climate department (DECC) is wasting its time trying to simplify the CRC. There’s no doubt the scheme is extremely complicated, and I’ve every sympathy with energy managers...
View ArticleClimate change agreements revisited
Latest thinking by the energy and climate department (DECC) over climate change agreements (CCAs) smacks of blue-sky thinking. It has floated ideas not only to reform but even potentially to scrap the...
View ArticleConflicting objectives
Conventional wisdom among climate policymakers holds to the idea that greenhouse gas mitigation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy targets will combine to deliver the EU’s 20% emissions reduction...
View ArticleCRC: Dead man walking?
Industry lobby groups are calling on the government to kill off the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme. The recent consultation by the energy and climate department (DECC) on...
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