01 June 2008

Microgeneration And Feed-In Tariffs

- 100,000 British homes now have microgeneration, mainly solar thermal panels that heat water, and we have no feed-in tariff. In Germany, more than a million households have microgeneration, and they, and 14 other European countries have a feed-in tariff. It's pretty clear what we need to do, so why is Labour framing a feed-in tariff as a regulatory nightmare?

- Should we have edible urban landscapes?

- Jacqui Smith, first female Home Secretary, sidelined over 42-day detention compromise negotiations. Senior female correspondants sidelined by BBC on 10 O'Clock News bulletins.

- David Strahan, The Telegraph

All the signs are that we have reached the foothills of global oil peak – the moment production flattens and then goes into terminal decline. The facts are stark: the amount discovered has been falling for 40 years; for every barrel we find each year, we now guzzle three; output is already falling in over 60 of the world's 98 oil producing countries; and global production has been essentially flat, at just under 86 million barrels a day, since early 2005; serious analysts now forecast $200 per barrel. What is it that Gordon Brown doesn't get?

1 comment:

Hempshill Residents said...

Are FITs such a good idea? The German system may have stimulated the PV industry (and we all know how desperate BP is for tax hand outs), but is it a wise use of finite resources? You chuck taxpayers money at some basket case technology (and PV is some basket case) and no sooner done than the nuclear guys come along and want the same treatment. It is a self-defeating waste of money and effort-much better to invest in sensible stuff like large scale wind...but then you might upset the RAF/bats/penguins/green welly NIMBYs! Is Climate Change serious or just a middle class game?