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United Kingdom: Grudgingly, UKIP has a point on saving our shale gas wealth
Posted by Energy Live: None Given on May 26th, 2014
Energy Live: It’s probably the only UKIP policy I can ever agree with.
And it was presented in an otherwise mud-slinging speech by MEP Roger Helmer -- the party’s energy lead who re-elected in last week`s EU elections -- at UKIP’s annual conference last year.
It goes something like this: if Britain plunges on with a shale gas bonanza, why don’t we put the proceeds into a Norwegian-style savings pot for future generations?
Actually UKIP’s showstopper idea could have been borrowed from the Lib Dems – they...
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United Kingdom: Fracking protest village forms renewable energy company
Posted by Energy Live: None Given on March 28th, 2014
Energy Live: Residents of the village that was the centre of anti-fracking protests have formed their own renewable energy company.
Called REPOWERBalcombe, the new co-operative plans to install around £300,000 worth of solar panels on the rooftops of local buildings in Balcombe – hoping to meet around 7.5% of the electricity demand of the village.
It also hopes to provide all of the village’s electricity need with locally-generated renewable energy in the long term.
The co-operative launched its first...