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Five ways to rescue the draft energy bill
Today the Energy and Climate Change Committee (ECC) publishes its report on its pre-legislative scrutiny of the Draft Energy Bill. Here are the top five things we like about the committee’s report: 1....
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Why the UK should introduce payments for electricity ‘negawatts’
British energy efficiency policy to date has mainly focused on domestic insulation, and rightly so: we have a particularly leaky housing stock and heating costs form the bulk of most household energy...
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Why a carbon price alone won’t shift the UK to renewable energy
Putting a price on carbon is widely championed as an economically efficient way of cutting carbon emissions. Some even argue that pricing tools such as carbon taxes or cap and trade schemes should be...
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Everything you need to know about an electricity efficiency feed-in tariff
After calling for more government action to help people reduce electricity use for nearly two years, we’re delighted that the government is finally taking it seriously. Our recent report with WWF...
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How to switch the UK on to heat pumps
Heat is responsible for a third of carbon emissions and around half of the energy we use in the UK. Whilst there is a range of views about how to achieve the deep cuts needed in carbon emissions from...
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Why we shouldn’t wait for a magic pill to cure our climate woes
Last week, on Radio 4’s Today programme, I was asked to critique the well known and controversial environmental commentator, Bjørn Lomborg. According to his theory, we should all do as Japan has...
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