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Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme becomes “Stealth Tax”
21 Oct 2010 | Filed under: Compliance, CRC, Efficiency savings, Industry CommentMy thanks to fellow Auditel consultant Dr Simon Hooper ( http://auditelconsultants.co.uk/simonhooper/ ) whose recent blog I unashamedly copy here: The BBC has reported that the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment) has been changed in yesterday’s government spending review. According to the BBC report the government is being accused imposing a [...]
Npower to refund customers £63 million
11 Oct 2010 | Filed under: Industry CommentUtility Week report that Consumer Focus has welcomed npower’s decision to refund gas customers to the tune of £63 million plus VAT and interest. The payment, which will see around 1.8 million households receive £35 on average, brings closure to the long running dispute between the supplier and its customers. Npower changed the way it charged for [...]
Flushed with success – heating your home from human waste.
06 Oct 2010 | Filed under: Industry Comment, Sustainability, TechnologyHouseholders in Didcot have become the first in the UK to use gas made from their own human waste and supplied via the national grid to heat their homes, reports BBC News. Up to 200 Oxfordshire homes will be using biomethane made from sewage they had flushed away three weeks earlier. British Gas, Thames Water [...]
Blackberry launches rival to iPad
28 Sep 2010 | Filed under: Industry Comment, TechnologyBlackberry has announced its answer to Apple’s iPad with a device called the Playbook. BBC News reports that the company unveiled its tablet computer to much anticipation at its developer conference, Devcon, in San Francisco. It is one of the first business-centric devices in the tablet market. Analysts said that the release was a clever [...]
It’s a fact – pigeon post is quicker than broadband if you live in the country
17 Sep 2010 | Filed under: Industry Comment, TechnologyBroadband is the most modern of communication means, while carrier pigeons date back to Roman times. But on Thursday, a race between the two highlighted the low speeds of rural broadband in the UK; the pigeon won. Ten USB key-laden pigeons were released from a Yorkshire farm at the same time a five-minute video upload [...]
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