Posts Tagged energy
July 28, 2009 at 8:47 am
· Filed under Tendering, UK electricity, UK energy, UK gas, energy ·Tagged electricity, energy, Energy-Tendering, gas, Tendering, Tenders
UK Tender Negotiating Issues
Energy Tendering Process
Over the last couple of years the dramatic inflation of wholesale UK energy prices is making businesses re-evaluate their latest procurement arrangements. With the uncertainty in the global market and economy the energy companies are taking a step into the unknown in regards to gauging future gas and electricity tendering energy procurement contracts.
The market:
It has been widely reported that more than halve of all energy companies are paying over the odds for their utilities due to many reasons, One of the major scenarios of this is because there is no certainty about costs, contracts and price formatting from major suppliers. Another reason as to why various businesses are paying over the odds is due to the confusion of supply contracts being terminated. This results in companies having to pay excessive charges.
Once again companies will have to rely on the government to clarify what’s what when it comes to negotiating energy supplies into the UK from foreign countries.
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June 11, 2009 at 3:10 pm
· Filed under Green Energy, Green electricity, UK electricity, UK energy, energy ·Tagged electricity, energy, Green electricity, Green Energy, green power, renewable energy, UK energy
Ecotricity Award
Europe’s largest ever green electricity business “Ecotricity” has won a well deserved environmental achievement award. The company set up in 1996 in Gloucestershire founded the green electricity market. Firstly set up to provide market places with environmental friendly electricity by Dale Vince.
Later on in 2009 Ecotricity will be rolled out to domestic customers who can join in on the environmentally friendly energy with some such company’s such as Thames Water, The Millennium Dome and The co-Operative bank.
In the last four years Ecotricity has went from a turnover of around £13000 to £50,000,000, most people are led to believe that many green electricity products and services are more costly and in many cases they are, but here at Ecotricity we succeed in challenging this issue.
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April 14, 2009 at 10:43 am
· Filed under Energy Offers, Global Warming, Green Energy, UK energy, energy ·Tagged china, energy, Green Energy, obama, pentagon, renewable energy, shell
We can’t quite believe it but it is actually mid-April. Therefore, with one-quarter of the year gone we thought that it would be interesting to compile our top 5 green energy related stories of 2009 so far. It has definitely been an eventful start to the year, the majority of energy news is understanably resonating from the new US administration and the continuing global economic situation. These combined events have seen some of the biggest institutions in the world begin to adapt their policies and practice in order to fall in line with the green revolution. Anyway, here are five of our top green stories of Q1 2009.
- The Pentagon turns green! – Not exactly renowned for making either cost or energy efficiciency savings, the news that the US Defence HQ was installing 4,200 LED lights in Wedge 5 of the labyrinthyne building is a strong indication of the level of green agenda penetration. The new lights use 22 percent less power than the fluorescent bulbs replace, which will pay back their extra expense in 4 years.
Green Pentagon
- Oil giant Shell drops green investments – You know that an economy is in trouble when giants such as Shell stop investing in anything – sadly, in this case it is their green energy initiatives which have bourne the brunt of cost-saving.
President Obama - early green initiatives
- China orders Governments to focus on Green Energy – The importance of China grabbing the green initiative shouldn’t be underestimated. The country which houses 20% of the world’s population can have a huge impact on the environment of planet earth.
China - going green
- We have saved the Ozone Layer – is this right!? – For years the central message of the CO2 emission reductiuon policies has been to ’save the Ozone Layer’ – well, according to the latest research we have actually managed to do it. Is this right, it all seems a bit improbable.
Thats our five top green stories of 2009 so far – what would be your choices?
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March 17, 2009 at 9:44 am
· Filed under Green Energy, Green electricity, UK electricity, UK energy ·Tagged clean electricity, clean energy, energy, Green electricity, Green Energy, greener energy, renewable energy
With the alternative energy industry now reaching an annual turnover over of $9.2 billion pounds it is pretty easy to understand why the modern day investers are filling up their portfolios with energy stock investments. The long term growth of these investments is pretty good looking as we sail in to the 21 century.
It is true to say that if you where to invest in a new start-up green electricity company you could be investing in the Apple Mac or Google of our generation in terms of return in investment, people are getting fed up with rising fuel costs and by investing in these new alternative energy sources you would be acting as a market maker for the people who want to be receiving more green electricity and paying less on their energy bills.
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December 4, 2008 at 2:58 pm
· Filed under Green Energy, UK energy, energy ·Tagged chris goodall, energy, energy myths, Green electricity, Green Energy, UK electricity, UK energy
‘Ten Technologies to Save the Planet‘ author Chris Goodall posted an excellent article in his Guardian Blog last week. Titled ‘The 10 big energy myths‘, Goodall tackles each ‘myth’ with his usual degree of insight and provides compelling reasons to debunk each. The ten myths that he focussed on are:
- Solar power is too expensive to be of much use
- Wind power is too unreliable
- Marine energy is a dead-end
- Nuclear power is cheaper than other low-carbon sources of electricity
- Electric cars are slow and ugly
- Biofuels are always destructive to the environment
- Climate change means we need more organic agriculture
- Zero carbon homes are the best way of dealing with greenhouse gas emissions from buildings
- The most efficient power stations are big
- All proposed solutions to climate change need to be hi-tech
The article is a very refreshing read. It is great to have someone as eloquent as Goodall fighting for the green energy cause. Enjoy.
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October 3, 2008 at 4:14 pm
· Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged cabinet-reshuffle, climate change, energy, gordon-brown
A desperate bid to win green votes or a pioneering move to tackle climate change?
In the latest Cabinet Reshuffle Gordon Brown has created a new Energy and Climate Change Department, to be headed up by Ed Milliband. This has to be seen as a positive move, as the previous line of climate change responsilbility was always rather conveniently blurred between DEFRA and BEER. Now there can be no doubt as to where blame will be apportioned if the green energy message doesn’t begin to make a significant impression. At the very least we can look forward to a slew of new energy initiatives and announcements over the coming weeks. We will be watching with interest.
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June 26, 2008 at 2:44 pm
· Filed under Green Energy, UK electricity, UK energy, UK gas, energy ·Tagged cheap, cheap electricity, cheap energy, electricity, energy, gas, government, power, renewable, renewable energy, uk, wind power
The UK government have finally announced the details of their commitment to renewable energy. Whether or not these targets are attainable is another matter. However, from our point of view, any focus at all on this issue is to be welcomed. If this can be the start of the green energy revolution then hopefully in the future we will power our homes with cheap electricity and gas from clean sources.
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February 1, 2008 at 4:50 pm
· Filed under Energy Offers, Green Energy, Green electricity, UK electricity, UK energy, UK gas, energy ·Tagged electricity, energy, EU energy, green gases, greener energy, power provider
Waitrose supermarket in Rickmansworth are using tomatoes to generate power for their store.
I will just direct you to the article itself but I thought this was amazing!
It will help reduce the amount of hydro and wind power stations if it can be managed on a large scale!
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January 31, 2008 at 9:50 am
· Filed under Energy Offers, Green Energy, Green electricity, UK electricity, UK energy, UK gas, energy ·Tagged energy, Green electricity, hydro, UK electricity, uk electricity price, UK energy, UK gas, uk gas prices
Renewable electricity is not just a fashion trend it’s here to stay. Business are encouraged to go green by government.
Governments across the world have been urging businesses to lead the way in the green revolution, so far the larger companies particularly ASDA, Tesco, Sainsbury etc., have been slightly more proactive in this step than smaller business this is because it is perceived that ‘going green’ means costing money. Experts are starting to show this is not true and that is can actually be cost effective to go green.
Dr Martin Gibson, director of Envirowise states that companies “who take action for the first time can identify savings of up to £250 per employee in office-based companies – or as much as £1,000 per employee for manufacturers.”(BBC, 2007). This makes renewable energy and green electricity an affordable and cost effective way to run a business.
There are a few energy companies that offer green electricity scottishpower.co.uk being one; however Scottish Southern Electric offering a fix rate tariff on green electricity. In the current market conditions this is another great example of how a business can cost effectively stay green, by using green electricity.
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January 28, 2008 at 12:30 pm
· Filed under Green Energy, Green electricity, UK electricity, UK energy, energy ·Tagged electricity, energy, EU energy, green gases, greener energy, scottish green energy, wind power, wind turbine
Local people pressure executive to say no
Today BBC1 news announced that the Scottish Executive2 plan to block the Isle of
Lewis wind farm proposal.
The Scottish Executive bowed to mounting pressure from the local people of Lewis and will block the planning application for the wind turbines. Residents of Lewis complained that the turbines would affect tourism and damage the wild life of Lewis, Lewis is home to Scotland’s largest population of birds.
The future of renewable energy in Scotland
What does this mean for the future of green energy in Scotland? It will become more difficult for energy companies to set up renewable energy sources in Scotland, future coastal wind farms can be blocked on the grounds of that it is an eyesore. Wind farms are not the best looking thing to have dotted across your coast however it is a trade off with cleaner full. I am sure most, when looking at the bigger picture, would agree that it is fair sacrifice to lose untainted coast lines in order to help preserve the environment as a whole; it is that or lose the coastlines altogether.
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