Environment & Energy News
Sep
2010
Friday 3rd September, 2010
Will the government scale back sustainability schemes?
Inside Housing references recommendations by Policy Exchange report Greener, Cheaper that Feed In Tariffs be scrapped and the Renewable Heat Incentive be scaled back.
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Thursday 2nd September, 2010
Energy secretary Chris Huhne warned not to cut subsidies for green electricity
The Guardian refers to Policy Exchange report Greener, Cheaper, which criticises the Feed In Tariff and Renewable Heat Incentive in their article on subsides for green electricity.
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2010
Wednesday 25th August, 2010
Cuts conundrum: investigating likely feed-in tariff changes worldwide
pv-tech.org references findings by Policy Exchange report Greener, Cheaper on the importance of the UK's feed-in-tariff at promoting renewable growth in the UK.
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Wednesday 18th August, 2010
Think Tank warns that green energy policies will be a "4p tax" by 2020
Head of the Environment & Energy Unit Simon Less is quoted in an article on the Utility Week website on how green taxes are set to increase over the next decade.
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Wednesday 18th August, 2010
Fuel Poverty and the Winter Fuel Allowance
Energy & Environment Unit Research Fellow Robert McIlveen writes for the Spectator's Coffee House Blog on fuel poverty and the winter fuel allowance, referencing the Policy Exchange report Cold Comfort.
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Tuesday 17th August, 2010
Green taxes could treble by 2020, costing taxpayers more than £16billion a year
Head of the Environment & Energy Unit Simon Less tells the Daily Mail of Policy Exchange findings in latest report Green Bills that green taxes could treble by 2020.
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Tuesday 17th August, 2010
Green taxes to triple, costing you £50 a year
Simon Less, Head of the Environment & Energy Unit, is quoted by the Daily Telegraph on how taxes on household energy bills are set to treble over the next decade, following the release of the latest Policy Exchange report Green Bills.
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Tuesday 17th August, 2010
Green taxes to treble by 2020, warns Policy Exchange
Policy Exchange's Head of the Environment & Energy Unit Simon Less is quoted on ConservativeHome article on findings from Green Bills of the impact of green taxes and levies on household energy bills.
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Tuesday 17th August, 2010
Green levies on power bills are set to triple over next decade
New research from think tank Policy Exchange reveal how the total levy in energy – effectively tax to pay for climate and renewable energy policies - is set to soar by 2020. The figures reveal that by 2020, the cost of policies like the Renewables Obligation and Feed-in Tariffs – which pay householders to produce power uneconomically through technologies like solar – will hit over £16 billion a year.
That is a tripling in less than a decade, and equivalent to 4p on the current basic rate of income tax, or 2 per cent of total forecast tax revenues in 2020.
Sunday 15th August, 2010
Taxpayers subsidising the new cash crop
Power-gen Worldwide quotes Environment and Energy Research Fellow Robert McIlveen on findings from Policy Exchange report Greener, Cheaper that small-scale micro-generation subsidies are not cost-effective and should be scrapped.
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