Sunday, 26 April 2009 “All targets and no trousers” seemed to be the gist of the reaction from environmentalists to last week’s Budget. Greens welcomed the introduction of new, legally binding, carbon-reduction goals but attacked the lack of a clear road map showing how they could be achieved. Some applauded policies such as the extra […]
Read MoreBWEA Wave & Tidal 09
BWEA’s sixth annual, and the world’s largest, event dedicated to wave and tidal stream energy, will take place on 30th April 2009 in Bath, sponsored by the South West RDA. Over 400 government and industry professionals will attend and over 30 companies will be on display at the accompanying exhibition, which has been extended due […]
Read MoreIntermittent energy source – From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Latest version – feel free to comment or edit – strangely, has a large number of refrences from the claverton site. Jump to: navigation, search Erie Shores Wind Farm monthly output over a two year period An intermittent energy source is a source of electric power generation that may be uncontrollably variable or more intermittent than […]
Read MoreCorrespondence received from CSP / Trec regarding " Proposed presentation of benefits and costs of European Supergrid by Dr Gregor Czisch"
Proposed presentation of benefits and costs of European Supergrid by Dr Gregor Czisch Dear Dave, Thanks very much for sending this correspondence. A couple of points about CSP and wind power: Wind power has been supported for much longer than CSP and is much further down its cost-reduction curve than CSP. The TRANS-CSP report from […]
Read MoreDay One -20th May – of the forthcoming All Energy conference in Aberdeen
www.all-energy.co.uk re the Grid, the second one being the one I’ve put together re the Legal and Financial Infrastructure. I have Aily Armour-Biggs (a Clavertonite) chairing it, plus a Scottish Government speaker, Mike McElhinney, and a lawyer from Talisman Energy, Jacquelynn Craw, who is very familiar with the North Sea MasterDeed legal infrastructure
Read MoreIs Wind Power Reliable? Capacity Credit of Wind Energy
Is Wind Power Reliable The following is a commentary on David Milborrow’s article in “New Power UK/Issue 1/February 2009”. As David says, you would not design a thermal power generating system which did not have built in reserve. He has answered his comment about those letter writers being unconcerned (or unaware) that there […]
Read MoreNuclear and Wind are Officially Stated to be Incompatible
This statement , from E.ON and EDF was in the financial pages of the Guardian on 16th March 2009. Fred Starr and Dave Andrews put in a briefing note to this effect in the Inst of Civil Engineers Journal ” Energy” last year. But we also pointed out that nuclear cannot exist without back up from fossil, and because […]
Read MoreUK Windless Days – Fact or Fiction
offshore wind Conference £60 for the registration fee?at the University of Birmingham on August 28th
Dear Claverton People, Do you want to know more about offshore wind but would like to go to a Conference where you don’t have to pay £1000 for the registration fee? Well come along to the University of Birmingham on August 28th which has a registration fee of just £60 and also a range of […]
Read MoreDepressing but probably true comment on rate of growth of renewable energies in Wikipedia
From wikiepedia article on wind power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wind_power Fastest growing energy source The statement that wind power is the world’s fastest growing energy source needs to be qualified. It may be correct in terms of greatest added capacity, if China has stopped building a new coal power plant a week, or two, but it is not […]
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