by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Apr 11, 2011 | Blog |
I’ve been thinking about the idea of resilience quite a lot recently. On the ‘macro’ scale, initiating a community-owned renewable energy project is inspired by the need for us to become more resilient in the face of climate change and peak oil. Clearly installing...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Mar 24, 2011 | Blog |
While the FIT review is targeted at large scale installations, the reclassification of solar projects over 50kW as ‘large scale’ threatens community schemes too. The question for government, therefore, is at what scale can community energy projects succeed? This post...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Mar 23, 2011 | Blog |
Whilst the Feed In Tariff (FIT) review has prompted huge disappointment across the solar industry in the UK, FIT regimes across the continent have been unstable for a couple of years. So what causes governments to wobble on FITs? Too many projects Fundamentally, the...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Mar 8, 2011 | Blog |
Hi Everyone, Last month I mentioned we’d have some big news and here it is: Jeremy Leggett has joined the advisory board of Brighton Energy Co-op. This is a major step forward for us – Jeremy is probably the biggest figure in British solar. As well as...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Mar 7, 2011 | Blog |
Twitter is ablaze with talk of the protests planned by some Saudi citizens next Friday. Saudi troops are already being deployed around the Kingdom. Before there was any sense that contagion might spread even to Saudi Arabia, some analysts were warning of $220 oil...
by Will Cottrell, Chairman, Brighton Energy Coop | Mar 3, 2011 | Blog |
DECC launched a clever little simulation today that lets you decide how to move to a low carbon economy, how it looks – and whether it works or not. See the website here (http://my2050.decc.gov.uk/)
