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 More'Tax the privileged and reduce the deadweight costs' – from Chris Cook, Claverton, letter in Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2b060736-2a1e-11de-9d01-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1 Published: April 16 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 16 2009 03:00 From Mr Chris Cook. Sir, I am sure British correspondents will also be pointing out that it is not just the US tax code that is broken (“Mending America’s broken tax code”, Editorial, April 14), but this misses a deeper point. The […]
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 […]
Read MoreENERGY MARKETS OUTLOOK:IDENTIFYING RISKS AND DRIVERS STAKEHOLDER EVENT THURSDAY 7 MAY 2009
AT THE BERR CONFERENCE CENTRE, 1 VICTORIA ST, LONDON SW1 Following the publication of the second Energy Markets Outlook report in December, the Department of Energy and Climate Change is holding an event on Thursday 7 May from 09:30 to 14:00 to focus on the risks and drivers affecting energy markets. The event will […]
Read MoreArticle in IET queries role of wind power and balancing costs in the UK
David Millborrow is a Claverton participant…. Thanks to Hugh Sharman for forwarding this piece. This article from David Millborrow seems to pretty much demolish this article.. .. http://tx1.fcomet.com/~claverto/cms/download/316/ …………………………………. Quote ” Today, the UK is committed to European Union targets to deliver 35 per cent of electricity from renewables by 2020. Starting from a base of […]
Read MoreThat financial crisis in full – G20 triumph – latest
The banks lost all their money, put pressure on the politicians who in London, agreed to give them all the money back, by taking our money and giving it to them for the next 20 years. The also agreed to leave the tax havens pretty much as they are – well the ones that people […]
Read MoreRenewables and the Grid Conference – May 13-14, 2009 | Almas Temple Club, Washington, DC
Part Two of an Interconnected Conference with: National Energy Policy Transmission holds the key to meeting renewable energy goals nationwide. It is projected that nearly all easily accessible wind sites will be exhausted within two to four years, and both utility-scale solar and geothermal are likewise transmission constrained. Hundreds of billions of dollars of […]
Read MoreHOUSE OF COMMONS SEMINAR ON LAND VALUE TAXATION
Organised by The Coalition for Economic Justice Hosted by Vince Cable MP Panel of Speakers: Sir Sam Brittan, Financial Times Fred Harrison*, Land Research Trust Prof Iain McLean, Professor of Politics– Oxford University Ashley Seager, The Guardian Molly Scott Cato, Green Party Economics speaker David Triggs, Henry George Foundation * Author of Boom […]
Read More"Lazy NPower can't be bothered to lay a heat main to re-gas the LNG at Milford Haven" – our correspondent
FOE Cymru were gutted by the recent consent given to the 2GWe CCGT Npower application at Pembroke power station site. Its on the south side of the Haven and will dump 9 TWh/y into the waterway (capturing 6 TWh/ would have been enough to heat 330,000 homes rising to 500,000 if insulation programmes reduced annual […]
Read Morethe finance industry has effectively captured our government says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund
But you heard it here first – we pointed this blindingly obvous fact out a few months ago after the last Claverton Conference……… The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance […]
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