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Vote for what you don't believe

09 March 2010

It is only to be expected in the run-up to the election, but polls are proliferating like there's no tomorrow.... ...more »

Tags: electricity, Energy, environment

Lines of worry for National Grid

05 March 2010

It is all going rather pear-shaped in Somerset, where National Grid is having a devil of a time over plans... ...more »

Tags: electricity transmission, National Grid

Waste not, want not

19 February 2010

A colleagues of Disconnector's was at a meeting about peak oil and energy security. One of the speakers was Brian... ...more »

Tags: electricity generation

Electrocution is too good for 'em

18 February 2010

Disconnector has highlighted the madness of certain individuals who risk life and serious blackouts in bids to thieve recyclable material... ...more »

Tags: electricity distribution

A tariff by any other name...

17 February 2010

The gestation period was long and the accreditation scheme was a couple of seasons late (it had been promised for... ...more »

Tags: Energy

It's the way you tell 'em...

08 February 2010

Here's a brand new Disconnector award, for the most laboured joke of the week (number 1 in an occasional series).... ...more »

Tags: nuclear, politics

Hold the front page

15 January 2010

A few eyebrows were raised last week when the Crown Estate announced the location of its press conference about the... ...more »

Tags: electricity generation, politics, renewables, wind

You gotta really want it

01 December 2009

And finally, Disconnector's quote of the week. As those close to the action know, the ­government is having a spot... ...more »

Tags: energy efficiency, politics

The wisdom of ages

27 November 2009

Disconnector is intrigued to see the verbal sparring prompted by a Utility Week web story about a poll for EDF... ...more »

Tags: EDF Energy, nuclear

National Grid pins its hopes on Boris

26 November 2009

Will bike-riding, Latin-spouting and tousled-haired mayor of London Boris Johnson ride to the rescue of National Grid? The great man... ...more »

Tags: electricity, electricity transmission, National Grid

In honour of Olympic rings... some ringers!

23 November 2009

To celebrate 1,000 days to go until London 2012, EDF Energy, the sponsor of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic... ...more »

Tags: EDF Energy

The Lady ain't for playing it safe

20 November 2009

Serial director Lady Barbara Thomas Judge (around 30 and counting) was embroiled in a bit of a stand-off recently when... ...more »

Tags: electricity generation, nuclear

Methinks you protest too much

18 November 2009

You win some, you lose some. The great man muses thus after learning that the Advertising Standards Authority has been... ...more »

Tags: protest, renewables, wind

There's no smoke without ire...

11 November 2009

Understandably, most of the media coverage of this week's publication of National Policy Statements has concen­trated on the naming of... ...more »

Tags: Centrica

Electrician sparks Scottish and Southern Energy 'fantasy'

06 November 2009

Red faces should be the order of the day at Scottish and Southern Energy. Last month, the company failed in... ...more »

Tags: Scottish and Southern Energy

Shocking truth behind the headlines

30 October 2009

Normally the fact that a patient is recovering in hospital would not make the headlines. Last week, though, was a... ...more »

Tags: electricity distribution

Stirring up trouble

08 October 2009

Judge James Spencer is getting a bit annoyed. He presided over the trial of 29 people who took over a... ...more »

Tags: drainage, protest

Everyone's a winner... er, hold on a minute

02 October 2009

City traders enjoyed themselves last week by taking a position on both Eon and RWE on the grounds that their... ...more »

Tags: Eon, RWE

The good old days of class war

02 October 2009

Labour Party Conference sessions are not what they were. By and large the conference is carefully choreographed and stage-managed, so... ...more »

Tags: National Grid, politics

The lights are on, but no-one's at home

22 September 2009

Now here's an intriguing tale. A Glastonbury estate agent called Jules Bending has grabbed the headlines by, so he claims,... ...more »

Tags: electricity

Digging deep for charity:

18 September 2009

RWE Npower recently donated 80 tonnes of pulverised fuel ash from its Didcot A power station to the local canal... ...more »

Tags: charity, electricity generation, RWE Npower

If it don't smell right, it don't smell right

18 September 2009

Dumfries Sheriff Court has been hearing how ScottishPower staff were intrigued by a surge in power use at an industrial... ...more »

Tags: electricity, ScottishPower

Everything comes to he who waits

10 September 2009

Here's a turn-up for the books. US-owned Western Power Distribution (WPD) may, after all, be on the brink of winning... ...more »

Tags: electricity distribution

Wouldn't it be nice to get on with the neighbours?

10 September 2009

It has not been the best of times for Eon UK. Last year the generator's Kingsnorth power station was targeted... ...more »

Tags: electricity generation, Eon

Crime doesn't pay. In fact, it could cost you

07 August 2009

Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. The great man muses thus after learning about the former National... ...more »

Tags: electricity transmission, National Grid

Knickers to power lines!

07 August 2009

Readers of a prudish disposition may wish to look away at this point. It has emerged that a power cut... ...more »

Tags: electricity distribution, electricity transmission

Red faces over green logos

17 July 2009

Well, dear readers, Disconnector thinks you know the answer to this one, but here we go: is Dale Vince, Ecotricity's... ...more »

Tags: British Gas, Ecotricity, EDF Energy, renewables

And you think our DNOs have problems...

17 July 2009

We are constantly being told how much investment is needed in the UK's power distribution networks to bring them up... ...more »

Tags: electricity distribution

Energy prices really are getting ridiculous...

12 June 2009

Hull resident Mark Neadley got a slightly worrying text message recently from British Gas. It informed him that he owed... ...more »

Tags: electricity, gas, pan-utility

Generating bad headlines

12 June 2009

Bet this will look good on the insurance claim.A man returned home recently to find that a nine-tonne generator had... ...more »

Tags: electricity

Fanning the flames against nuclear power

05 June 2009

It's a tough life being a nuclear regulator. Consider the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, busy grappling with an ageing staff, a... ...more »

Tags: nuclear

Can you smell gas?

05 June 2009

Those indefatigable Germans have stolen another march on us. Initially it was being first with towels on the recliners around... ...more »

Tags: gas, renewables

MP's expenses prove illuminating

22 May 2009

They never miss a trick (number 353 in an occasional series). Recently, readers will recall, David Willetts MP, the shadow... ...more »

Tags: policy

Suffolk's bobbies show how it should be done

08 May 2009

Shock horror. Now here's a turn up for the books. Disconnector has learnt that a demonstration outside a major power... ...more »

Tags: EDF Energy, nuclear

Spokes-men (geddit?)

01 May 2009

RWE Npower's Mike Bourne and Mick Furby are gearing up to cycle between the energy company's Didcot and Fawley power... ...more »

Tags: Npower, RWE

If at first you don't succeed... it might be better to forget all about it

01 May 2009

Disconnector was intrigued to learn that Western Power Distribution has drawn yet another blank in its long drawn out battle... ...more »

Tags: distribution

There are times when you can't please some of the people any of the time

01 May 2009

In a confusing and ever-changing world, it is good to know that some things stay the same. Disconnector muses thus... ...more »

Tags: electricity, Emissions

Spooks and ghosts in the machine?

24 April 2009

Earlier this month there were widespread but unsubstantiated reports across the pond that the country's power grid had succumbed to... ...more »

Tags:

Who turned the lights out?

24 April 2009

Oodles of comment and speculation has been swirling around in the media after the arrest last week of 114 people... ...more »

Tags: Eon, Kingsnorth

Generating much sound and fury

20 March 2009

Last week, there was a flurry of media attention about last year's Climate Camp action targeting Kingsnorth power station and... ...more »

Tags: Eon, Kingsnorth, protest

The nasty odour of a new tax

13 March 2009

Squeamish readers and those of a nervous disposition may wish to look away at this point. Animal flatulence is back... ...more »

Tags: emissions, renewables

A juicy fight about branding

27 February 2009

What's in a name? Well, if you are the retail end of RWE Npower, with an established green tariff known... ...more »

Tags: Npower, renewables

Isn't it high time we started thinking smart?

27 February 2009

Well done The Sun. The great man applauds a recent exclusive in the red top which was headlined "The high... ...more »

Tags: EDF Energy

It's a chill wind...

18 February 2009

Scots of Antarctica. A wind turbine manufacturer from north of the border has supplied eight turbines to help power the... ...more »

Tags: wind

Just hanging around...

04 February 2009

This pic shows a crack team from vegetation management specialists BTS Group. They are celebrating the fact that the company... ...more »

Tags:

Longer-lastiing debates about light bulbs

04 February 2009

In the Palace of Westminster their Lordships have been getting ever so slightly heated about the phasing out of traditional... ...more »

Tags: energy efficiency

A picture paints a thousand lies

04 February 2009

Labour peer Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe has been getting a tad tetchy in the Upper House. Recently he complained that... ...more »

Tags: renewables, wind

Incandescent about light bulbs

28 January 2009

Spare a thought for EDF Energy. Apparently it is not best pleased about moves to end its energy services company... ...more »

Tags: EDF Energy

Nuts on the loose

28 January 2009

It may or may not be getting a tad hairy in the south of Scotland. Disconnector muses thus on learning... ...more »

Tags: wind

Not such sterling work on the ETS, after all

21 January 2009

You may be sick of items about the credit crunch, but the following might make you smile. Wryly. As The... ...more »

Tags: Emissions