en-gb The latest from the journalists of Utility Week http://www.utilityweek.co.uk Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:47:34 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194340 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194340 by Disconnector - Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:47:00 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194339 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194339 by Disconnector - Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:46:20 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194338 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194338 by Disconnector - Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:43:37 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194337 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194337 by Roger Milne - Turbine refusniks are fighting on two fronts The MPs currently taking a pop at the Coalition's energy policy re onshore wind farms are not just miffed at modern day windmills. They are also deeply unhappy at how the administration's Localism agenda is playing out on the ground. Yup, planning is in their sights too. Wed, 8 Feb 2012 09:01:04 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194336 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194336 by Roger Milne - The sudden appearance of a piece of water legislation yesterday should intrigue Westminster watchers. The first reading of the Water Industry (Financial Assistance) Bill was distinctly low-key. No fanfare from its sponsoring ministry the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. No press notice. Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:58:41 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194335 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194335 by Roger Milne - Essex Police are now close to deciding whether or not to prosecute Chris Huhne over claims that he asked his former wife to take penalty points over speeding. The mood music in Westminster is clear. If he's charged he will lose his Cabinet post. So who might replace him? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:09:12 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194334 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194334 by Janet Wood - Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:36:46 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194333 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194333 by Roger Milne - Chris Heaton-Harris, the Tory MP for Daventry in Northamptonshire has called a meeting of fellow members to see how much support there would be for a group of MPs to lobby hard against what he perceives as ill-conceived Government support for wind power. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:52:42 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194332 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194332 by Disconnector - Message in a bottle: Eon’s collaborations with Birmingham City University to develop green technologies are turning up truly green products. Eon’s head of business development David Morgan, along with Mel Lees, dean of the faculty of technology, engineering and environment at Birmingham City University, are seen here peering through flasks of stuff produced from algae. The green stuff is part of a project studying how the microscopic beasties might be used as an alternative to fossil fuels. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:53:08 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194331 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194331 by Disconnector - It’s been a while since EDF Energy’s chief, Vincent de Rivaz, stopped vowing that UK customers would be able to cook their Christmas dinners in 2017 using electricity supplied from a new nuclear power station at Somerset’s Hinkley Point. The company has avoided giving startup dates recently. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:50:16 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194330 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194330 by Disconnector - Readers of a regional newspaper in the North East are being urged to dream up zany ways to utilise a couple of wind turbines that are standing idle near the local town of Alnwick. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:47:10 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194329 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194329 by Disconnector - So desperately in need of good news to dispense, and almost as universally despised as journalists, energy suppliers get tetchy if they miss out on the few scraps of happiness that fall their way. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:46:06 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194328 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194328 by Disconnector - It’s a long-standing jape among energy folk that the governing maxim at energy regulator Ofgem is: “It might well work in practice, but does it work in theory?” Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:44:59 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194327 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194327 by Roger Milne - Today might just see the start of a significant backbench movement dedicated to undermining the Coalition's current wind farm policy aspirations. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:46:33 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194326 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194326 by - Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:43:30 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194325 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194325 by Disconnector - Vegetarian option: there were warnings over Christmas from the unflinching sewermen of east London that were less than appetising about the effects of putting turkey fat down the drain. Thames Water’s redoubtable sewer flushers describe – in song – the horrors they confront after fat from festive dinner tables is washed away to cool and form “hideous fatbergs” in the sewers beneath the streets of the capital. To the melody of Deck the Halls they trill in a video: “Swilling fat is sewer sinning.” Second helpings anyone? Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:07:11 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194324 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194324 by Disconnector - Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:05:20 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194323 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194323 by Disconnector - Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:04:37 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194322 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194322 by Disconnector - Tory MP Chris Heaton-Harris is not the biggest fan of onshore windfarms, particularly if they are proposed for part of his Northamptonshire constituency. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:03:51 GMT http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194321 http://www.utilityweek.co.uk/blog/view_entry.asp?id=194321 by Disconnector - Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:02:02 GMT