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Slowly it seems that microgeneration time may be coming....

Feed-in tariffs by April 2010 - if the tariffs are generous enough, and designed to step-change the UK microgeneration market - may make the difference. 

But capital up front remains a problem, particularly with an owner staying at his address for an average of less than 10 years. Low cost loans - possibly linked to the house not the owner - or ways to confirm the added value that microgeneration equipment may make to your property, will still be needed.

Just saw this from the Metro in London - microgeneration going mainstream ?

From: FIONA MACDONALD

'Make every building a power station.' That was the demand issued by a group of environmental and economics experts a fortnight ago when they came out with their Green New Deal.

It doesn't mean installing a steam turbine in your living room; microgeneration, or making your own energy, for decades the realm of long-haired families with glazed expressions, is stepping out of the fringes.

A few of the Ourpower team got to test drive a new electric car earlier this week in London. The NICE Car Company very kindly picked us up at Kings Cross station and we drove around North London a bit before heading back down to Euston where we then caught our train up north... 

We were very impressed - 50 mph top speed with a range of around 50 miles. 2p/mile to charge - 1.5 hours to charge 25% - 8 hours full charge. Clean, quite and efficient - what more do you want?

I can see electric cars taking off in a very big way - we think we'll wait will December when they are launching a 5 seater family electric car with longer range and a higher top speed.

Microgeneration could rival nuclear power, report shows

Today is E-Day, E-Daywhen we should all be turning off as many electricity-hungry appliances as possible. Its a great idea - lets see what a difference it would make if we all tried for a day.

Do we believe in Green IT?old car

Can IT management buy low energy IT resources and make a difference? Or is this just hype?

Wattson - diykyotoThere has been a further announcement regarding the Government sanctioned trial of various types of smart meters. You can read the latest here.

CO2 Calculator
Slowly does it.Yesterday, David Milliband launched the government's new personal CO2 footprint calculator.

A friend of Ourpower's - David Strahan - recently published his latest book - 'The Last Oil Shock'. Check out his website at www.davidstrahan.com

"In the US, 61% of the housing stock is detached. If the owners of just 10% of these 70 million houses installed a single kilowatt of energy generation capacity, up to 7 Gigawatts of energy demand would be removed from the grid