Friday, 15 July 2016
by Jon Swain
Electricity can be more expensive than petrol on the motorway!
For several years, Ecotricity has been providing ‘free to use’ charging points at motorway service stations, amongst other locations, for electric vehicle owners. Wednesday, 13 July 2016
by Jon Swain
Miscanthus developments - burn it? sleep in it? live in it?
The rain finally stopped, and the sunshine made a welcome appearance, just in time for a guided walk around an experimental fields trial site of miscanthus at Hackthorn in Lincolnshire. Wednesday, 06 July 2016
by Andrew Kneeshaw
Make savings to offset higher energy prices
Electricity prices took off last week and at this rate, we’ll soon be looking at them returning to levels seen 12 months ago. If you are going to cut costs, you’re going to have to look closely at something other than cheaper tariffs. Tuesday, 05 July 2016
Thursday, 23 June 2016
by Elisa Evans
All about ROCs
Recently Oli and I took a trip to London to see Ofgem for a Fuelling and Sustainability workshop. The workshop was all about the Renewable Obligations Certificate (ROC) Scheme, of which my knowledge has so far been limited to solar technology. Friday, 03 June 2016
by Elisa Evans
Another blow to UK's clean energy industry
Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) recently released a consultation that announces an end to Feed-in Tariff (FiT) schemes for new large anaerobic digestion (AD) sites, and a greater reduction to small and medium scale plants. Here are the main points from the consultation: Thursday, 02 June 2016
by Elisa Evans
Two years on and I'm still here
I was pleased to celebrate my second anniversary at FEC recently. Having changed from the domestic to the commercial energy world, I have learnt a great deal. From the traditional import of electricity and gas, to the more exotic export of electricity and now, gas-to-grid - when I joined FEC, I Tuesday, 31 May 2016
by Thomas Wilkins
The latest degression announcement from DECC
DECC have just announced the tariffs for the Non Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive scheme, which will be effective from 1st July 2016. Small biomass, continuing to be hit by the degressions, will be decreasing by 10%. Wednesday, 25 May 2016
by Ed Hardy
LEDs in space
Water cooled LED lights have made their way into space! Safe food production is an ongoing issue for the EDEN Institute of Space Systems project. Heliospectra AB, working as part of this project, has designed high intensity LED grow lights to be used for this purpose on both the Internation Space Thursday, 12 May 2016
by Anonymous
