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Is Carlos Tevez a green god?

Posted by Cathy Debenham on 21st September 2009 at 9:36 am

Is Carlos Tevez a green god?

Manchester City's Carlos Tevez has "signed for the greens", according to the Daily Star following his move into "the country's most environmentally friendly superhome". A claim in the article that this makes him "probably the greenest footballer in the country" overlooks  David James' long-s…

Posted in: General, Energy efficiency


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How to buy renewable electricity

Posted by Cathy Debenham on 8th April 2010 at 10:18 am

How to buy renewable electricity

Until recently the electricity market was flooded with 'green' tariffs, usually for a premium price, with no clear indication of what made them 'green'. Were they just packaging up the renewable energy that they are obliged  to produce under the government’s Renewables Obligation and selling…

Posted in: General, Green Electricity


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Four major reasons to join in the mass lobby of Parliament on changes to the Feed-in Tariff

Posted by Howard Johns on 17th November 2011 at 9:08 pm

Four major reasons to join in the mass lobby of Parliament on changes to the Feed-in Tariff

Now we have all got over the shock of the announcement of potential changes to the feed-in tariff (FIT) some people in the industry are saying we should just get on and make the 21p work. In many ways if that was what the plan really was I would agree, but having sat in the Ministerial Roundta…

Posted in: Solar electricity


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