Articles by
Gary Hartley
2018: A community energy fightback?
By
Gary Hartley
In recent years, community energy seems to have been teetering on the brink of a breakthrough into the UK energy mainstream. But despite a large number of local renewables schemes getting off the ground, progress has been affected by factors such as the cuts to the rates of Feed-in Tariff (FiT) payments.
Engineers back energy saving as UK priority
By
Gary Hartley
The response also backs the idea of an Energy Saving Incentive scheme – where there is financial reward for making efforts to reduce energy use. This is along the lines of an energy efficiency version of the Feed-in Tariff (FiTs) for energy generated by renewable technologies. Despite some complications in constructing such a scheme, it’s certainly worth exploring.
