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EDF Energy's Green Britain initiative this year cauight the eye - and 149 complaints that the company was a: not a green energy company and b: not a British energy company. I am not sure why either of those things are preconditions to... ...more »
is how I would describe the Guardian's story on the energy networks. I wouldn't say that was how the networks were built and it looks like plenty of other people are ready to put the Guardian straight. Too right: we are going... ...more »
On the day that Obama is expected to announce a roll out of smart metering to between a quarter and a third of all US homes, Greentech Media has a cautionary story about a smart meter backlash in Fresno. From the article: "People... ...more »
The Telegraph has a great story about Sweden using its exploding rabbit population to generate power. Note how the comments split: just how much energy is there in a rabbit? What's the most efficient way to burn it? and should... ...more »
The BBC's Panorama falls foul of the real carbon dioxide dilemma: how to illustrate stories about a colourless gas. ... ...more »
"So which of us REALLY does pose the biggest threat to the environment?" says Hildon Natural Mineral Water - squaring up for a Top Trumps style show down in its new leaflet about mineral water vs tap water. First round:... ...more »
The Gadget Show tests an energy monitor, and blogs on the experience... ...more »
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) today chaired the first meeting of the Domestic Heating and Hot Water taskforce. This group is looking to make domestic heating and hot water more efficient and less carbon hungry. Good stuff.... ...more »
A story in the North West Evening Mail over the weekend demonstrates the difficulty private sewers pose for water companies. In short, a private sewer draining a new development from 2005 is leaking sewage onto the railway line. (There is... ...more »
Eon has set up a website to discuss the balance in energy supply and is asking for comments and videos. Low carbon, low price or security of supply? The "trilemma" coinage should have been trademarked.... ...more »
"TAP water across Britain has FAILED strict tests for toxic chemicals and deadly bacteria, the News of the World can reveal." - Wow, that sounds serious! Let's have a look at exactly what the News of the World is revealing.... ...more »
The Daily Mail has some great pictures of supposedly remote houses, each of which turns out to have a large power station or refinery looming immediately behind it. But check out the comments - one respondent suggests the Mail has also indulged... ...more »
Interesting straw polls at this lunchtime's nuclear dialogue group fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference in a rainy Manchester. Chairperson Fiona Harvey from the Financial Times asked for a show of hands from those who supported, first, a new-build nuclear... ...more »
When party conferences break for lunch, fringe frenzy kicks-in. Sometimes you waste your time at sessions which yield nothing - or very little. Other times it is paydirt. Today was the latter. I wandered into a session about what green... ...more »
Monday morning: I wake up in unfamiliar surroundings. From my hotel room window I watch a tram trundle over the River Irwell. Ah yes, I must be at another party conference. Yup, it's the Tories turn to strut the political... ...more »
Meet Mr Numptee. He's Yorkshire Water's new mascot to try and get people to stop putting the wrong things down the sewers. Mr Numptee hasn't quite got the message yet, so he puts all sorts of things down... ...more »
Watchdog yesterday took Big Six energy customers on a trip around the country to complain about high energy prices. Full details of the programme here. Just one brave soul from the energy industry has joined the comment list to point... ...more »
To co-incide with the beginning of October, the day households tend to turn on their central heating, the BBC has an interesting article aboat how central heating has changed society since the 1970s, including the interesting assertion: "So you could... ...more »
Utility Week now has a fan page on Facebook - this is your space where you can tell us what you'd like to see in the magazine and on the website, discuss utility matters and meet other people from the... ...more »