The Impact of UK Privitisation of Electricity

The Impact of UK Privitisation of Electricity

Whats more, the amount of eco friendly gifts california they have is not due to any principled stand.

When Britains state-owned electricity was broken up and privatised, SSE

happened to buy up a load of dams, around 75% of the UKs hydro capacity. SSE

categorise this as renewable, and despite some new-build including the massive

Shetland wind farm and some investment in microgeneration, its these old dams

that have formed the basis of their claims to being green friendly gifts.

The Renewables Obligation was designed to encourage new-build renewables. By

imposing a penalty on brown energy supply and awarding Renewables Obligation

Certificates for the supply of renewables, it should stimulate growth in the

latter.

Popularity: unranked [?]

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Netvouz
  • DZone
  • ThisNext
  • MisterWong
  • Wists

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 at 6:20 pm and is filed under Community, Environment, Green, Non-Profit. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.