Author: David Elliott

Bigger is often better

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Big renewables are more cost efficient

Small is allegedly beautiful, and there are certainly are social benefits from being able to control your own energy supply and achieve a degree of independence from the grid. But nearly all the projects being supported under the Zero Carbon Homes programme, and, by definition, all the projects getting Feed

Grid defection

by David Elliott - 3125

With cheap PV and batteries, do we need grids?    With around half of green energy generation in Germany now being in the hands of consumers and local energy co-ops, and the cost of PV falling, some look to a future in which power grids and big utility companies are less important