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Huhne details energy market reforms

At this week’s CBI conference on climate change, Chris Huhne has promised substantial reform to energy market regulation, set to begin this year. Feed-in Tariffs have been marked for consultation with the possibility of rolling them out to nuclear power stations and coal fired plants with carbon capture and storage facilities. This comes after the government stated that nuclear power would not be subsidised, although the reconsidered Feed-in Tariff is said to range across all low carbon industries. Huhne has also pledged a simplified version of the CRC (previously the carbon reduction commitment) which has been welcomed by the CBI.

Read Chris Huhne's full speech.

Feed-in Tariff leads to surge in installations

Ofgem has confirmed that in the first six months of the Feed-in Tariff scheme more than 11,000 generators have registered for Feed-in Tariff. This amounts to nearly 44MW of added renewable capacity since April.

Good Energy believes that distributed energy generation has a key role to play in Britain’s energy security as well as in cutting carbon emissions, so it’s great that the Feed-in Tariff has been so successful at stimulating investment in new microgeneration.

For more information on Feed-in Tariffs visit the Good Energy website

2020 renewable goal will be supported by the National Grid

Recent policy reforms have allowed for an agreement to be established to connect up to 32GW of renewable electricity to the National Grid by 2020. This positive news has come with a stark warning from Executive Director of the National Grid, Nick Winser, urging the renewable industry and government to follow through on proposed renewable projects to make sure the 2020 targets become a reality.
 
Rolling out renewable energy across Europe

The European Commission has outlined plans for new and improved transmission infrastructure which will allow renewable energy generated in Europe’s peripheral regions to enter the main power grid. These developments are hoped to lead to the go ahead of a number of projects deemed of ‘European Interest’ by 2012.

Good Energy believes that we can meet all Britain’s renewable energy needs with home grown energy but welcomes measures that facilitate the delivery of renewable energy across Europe.
 
UK’s first Climate Week confirmed for next year

The UK’s first Climate Week is to be launched from 21-27 March 2011 to further publicise the need to combat climate change. The week long awareness campaign will play host to all manner of cultural, social and professional events demonstrating ways of mitigating the effects climate change. It has already had public backing from the likes of David Cameron, Kofi Annan, Sir Paul McCartney and Michael Palin to name but a few.

We can’t wait to get involved.