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How innovation can help us keep lights on for future generations



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Published Date: 04 July 2008
By DUNCAN SEDGWICK
Chief executive, Energy Retail Association
NOBODY likes the fact life is getting more expensive. Wholesale energy prices are rocketing because of massive growth in demand for oil, gas and coal from countries such as China and India.
The simple fact is that global energy demand growth last year was above average for the fifth year in a row, and we are feeling the impact here in Britain just as other countries are around the world.

Energy suppliers are increasingly being expose...



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  • Last Updated: 03 July 2008 9:14 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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gus1940,

Edinburgh 04/07/2008 08:44:58
If North Sea Gas is running out and if The UK is now a net importer of natural gas what now is the point of the Mossmoran Gas Facility?

I may be wrong but I have always been led to believe that the plant is there to liquify gas from our North Sea fields so that it can be exported in tankers.

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Neil,

Glasgow 04/07/2008 13:10:49
There is no possible dispute that it is very possible to get as much power as we want at 1.3p a unit.

Anybody claiming that it is inevitable, rather than merely a political decision, that power prices go up is wholly & completely dishonest.

We do not need the "renewables" the eco-fascist leches want to burden us with.

 

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