Energy supply

• The Energy Supply Company Administration (Scotland) Rules 2013

• Renewables Alone Will Not Give Scots a Reliable Energy Supply

The assumption that renewable electricity generation, primarily wind farms, displaces fossil generation so saving CO2 emissions is repeated again without evidence by Dr Evan L Lloyd, (Letters, October 22). Logically, a reliable, controllable electricity generator cannot be replaced by one with neither of these characteristics without destabilising the electricity supply. Indeed Scottish Power Renewables has said that Britain will need to build almost an equivalent capacity of back-up generation to support windfarms and Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, has said that reserve plants are needed to provide a safety cushion for "electricity from intermittent sources". The European Wind Integration Study said that "windpower must be balanced almost completely with other back-up generating capacit...

• The Herald
• October 24, 2011

• Energy Supply Pushed Into the Red Zone

when it seemed that there was good news about the spiralling energy costs being endured by the consumer in the UK, along came timely reminders that ou...

• The Scotsman
• March 27, 2013

• Solar or Wind Will Never Supply Energy On National Scale ; in My Opinion

Well, at last, the news that anyone with half a brain cell actually saw coming a long time ago is now in the public domain. That news is that the energy supply in the UK is in a right royal mess. After reading an article in Wednesday's Western Morning News I was gobsmacked at some people's suggestions of how to sort it out. I know Merlin Hyman would like to think that the world shares his spurious obsession with renewable energy, but he should be upfront and honest enough to actually point out that solar, tidal or wind will never supply energy on a national scale. To try and pretend otherwise for any reason is irresponsible. Any GCSE physics student could tell you that these systems will never meet the requirements of modern life. Just because you are obsessed with carbon, and make mone...

• Western Morning News, The
• February 27, 2013

• Frontier Offers Consumers 100% Green Energy Supply

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• M2 EquityBites
• December 19, 2012

• Wind Energy Supply Event ; Inbrief

ENERGY: A conference focusing on the supply chain for offshore wind energy has been put back to next year. The event, run by the Renewables Network and Footprint Renewables to provide information about what the developers, turbine manufacturers and wind farm operators look for from potential suppliers was due to take place on Thursday, December 8, but will now happen on Thursday, February 16.

• Hull Daily Mail
• November 30, 2011

• Fracking Changes the Landscape - Both Literally and Politically ; Giles Chichestersays Unconventional Gas Production Can Be the Future of Our Energy Supply

I would like to comment on the F word - in energy policy, that is. F is for fracking, or the industrial process whereby previously inaccessible supplies of natural gas can be released from geological structures and extracted for commercial energy supply. Before I try to explain in detail what this process involves, I need to set the scene so as to put this development in context...

• Western Morning News, The
• April 24, 2012

• Playing an Essential Role in Supply Chain ; James Bryce, Newly-Appointed Partner in the Corporate Commercial Team at Square One Law, Specialising in the Energy Sector, Considers the North East's Role in the Energy Supply Chainsquare One Law

AS the energy industry evolves at pace in order to meet global energy needs and carbon reduction targets, the role of the supply chain has never been more essential in providing competitive solutions to emerging technologies and markets. It is well known that the North East has many advantages when it comes to attracting significant companies in the energy sector and it is imperative that businesses are given every reason necessary in order to stimulate greater investment in our region.

• The Journal
• March 27, 2013

• Stop Sparks Flying Over My Energy Supply [Scot Region]

WE MOVED to Australia in January 2010 and let our house for eight months. At the beginning of this year, I returned to the UK and was able to move back into our old home, as it was unoccupied. On examining the mail, I found two electricity bills from a company called Spark Energy, of whom I am totally unaware. Prior to leaving Britain, my gas and electricity supplier was Swalec and remained so during the period of letting.

• Daily Mail
• April 27, 2011

• Energy From the Sea: The Next Wave? Potential to Supply Our Future Energy Needs. Three Proposed Schemes

For an island nation the United Kingdom has arguably been slow to develop the potential of its silver seas to provide it with energy. There has of course been North Sea oil and gas, but they lie deep under the seabed. They are not a characteristic of the seas themselves, as the waves and the tides are.

• Western Mail
• May 11, 2011