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Will 2009 see a reduction in UK energy bills?

Well, obviously for all our sakes we hope the answer to the above is a resounding Yes! but who knows.
Energy Secretary Ed Milliband has re-iterated his call for the recent drop in wholesale gas and electricity prices to be passed onto consumers. At least one Electricity Supplier has hinted as possible price cuts early in [...]

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UK Electricity Suppliers Targeted

The sheer stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze us. I came across this story on the BBC website last week – apparently a couple of bright sparks decided to steal part of the base of an electricity transmitter in Middlesbrough. The truly amazing thing is that this is not a one-off occurrence:
……….. in [...]

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The Green Team – Environmental Activism

Some more light relief from Will Ferrell and his Green Team (John C. Reilly, Adam Mckay). A pretty funny slant on the extreme nature of some of our fellow green energy evangelists.

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Green Energy Evangelist – Paris Hilton

We are aware that we are behind the curve on this but the recent Paris Hilton spoof response video had us in stitches. The notorious hotel heiress seems more clued up in Green Energy that most of the world’s major policy makers!
See some of the highlights here:

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Biofuels – The Ulitmate Clean and Green Energy?

Biofuel has long been claimed as the answer to rising oil and gas prices, the ultimate in ‘clean and green energy’. As if to emphasise this further, a group of enthusiasts are currently en route to the cradle of Western Civilisation using only waste oil and cooking fat obtained from Chip Shops along the way. [...]

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New EU energy plan = greater energy security for the EU

Energy security in numbers
Energy flow
At the being of 2006 Europe’s weakness in the energy field was exposed during the Ukriane-Russian gas dispute, this highlighted the problems of having individual policies for each state when dealing with external energy suppliers.
It is disputes like the Ukraine-Russian1 dispute that can lead to instability in energy market and in [...]

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