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Archives - 2008 press releases
Severn Barrage could end fuel poverty in UK
Dale Vince outlines his plan to eradicate fuel poverty permanently.
15 December 2008
Watchdog gets its teeth into the independent sector
Dissatisfaction with energy companies is at an all time high...this week they turned their attention to us independents...
24 November 2008
South Gloucestershire's first wind turbines are on their way!
Our plan to build three windmills near Alveston has been approved.
13 November 2008
Construction begins at Worksop
After a record amount of time in planning, building work starts at the B&Q site in Worksop.
29 October 2008
Ofgem guilty of 'benign neglect'
OFGEM is not doing enough to encourage competition in the energy sector according to green energy company Ecotricity.
05 October 2008
Champion Crowned After World's First ‘legal’ Wind Turbine Base Jump
The first ever British Open Base Jumping Championship concluded this weekend with spectacular jumps from an Ecotricity Turbine.
28 September 2008
Ecotricity report UK's biggest growth in renewables
Ecotricity's own green energy supply increases by a record 13%
28 September 2008
Public Exhibition Announced for Coke Site
The country's biggest soft drinks factory could soon be running on wind power.
19 September 2008
Galsworthy given go-ahead!
Torridge District Council have granted planning permission for our Galsworthy Wind Park.
10 September 2008
Ofgem plan to outlaw green electricity tariffs
Ofgem recently released an outline of their proposed new green electricity accreditation scheme... But it seems their idea for regulating green electricity tariffs is to ban them!
09 September 2008
Wind powered record attempt thwarted by climate change
Uncharacteristic rain fall flooded Lake Lefroy leaving hopes of a world record dashed. The team are a little down hearted but are now focused on the ice record attempt next year.
04 September 2008
Whales and Windmills - a lot in common
Marine conservation society Sea Shepherd – took time out of a busy schedule touring Europe to visit us at our HQ in Stroud.
01 September 2008
British team harness wind power in world speed challenge
This week two groundbreaking Brits will start their attempt to break a new speed record in the most advanced wind powered vehicle ever produced.
20 August 2008
Ofgem imposes Greenwash scheme
Ecotricity, founders of the green electricity movement, have slammed Ofgem's new scheme to regulate green tariffs
29 July 2008
Wind Powered cars are on the way!
Ecotricity's plans to build three wind turbines for Lotus are approved.
23 July 2008
Open day a great success at our latest wind park
We were overwhelmed by the response at Shooters Bottom, Somerset.
18 July 2008
Hysterical nonsense - Ecotricity boss responds to Christopher Booker
Dale Vince discusses a Daily Mail article regarding our newly constructed Shooters Bottom wind park.
26 June 2008
Why the planning process is failing to deliver government renewable energy generation targets
In 1999 the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities identified that the planning process is a "grave hindrance to achieving the necessary growth in renewables". Nearly ten years on and nothing has changed
12 June 2008
Wind - the new North Sea oil?
Brown should look closer to home for the solution to his oil problem.
28 May 2008
Dale Vince has joined the wonderful world of the blogsphere!
His blog is about life post-oil and post-carbon and how we get there.
10 April 2008
Ecotricity to build a third turbine for Ford
The two Ecotricity turbines at Ford's Dagenham plant have been major London landmarks since they were built in 2004. They will soon be joined by a third.
03 April 2008
More fudging of renewable energy targets
Allowing renewable projects built abroad to count towards UK targets makes a mockery of any attempts to address climate change. If it were possible to build projects anywhere in the world where planning is lax, nothing would be done in the UK - April 2008
01 April 2008
British Gas - Zero carbon?
British Gas were slammed today for misleading consumers in adverts for their so-called Zero Carbon tariff.
30 January 2008
Watchdog slams anti-wind group
RUNGA, the anti-wind group led by Alan Bensttead who opposed turbines at the Lotus headquarters in Hethel, were publicly shamed today by an adjudication from the ASA, a body that exists to ensure truth and accuracy in publications
23 January 2008
The nuclear industry is a failed experiment we can't afford to repeat
The current nuclear fleet cost £50 billion to build, it produced 20% of our power in the UK - for the same sum of money we could power the whole of Europe with wind energy.
03 January 2008
Archives 2008 - What the papers say
Dale discusses the ASA's adjudication against anti-wind group RUNGA
BBC Radio Norfolk
23 January 2008
Dale debates attitudes towards Fen Farm - our biggest wind park to date
BBC Radio Lincolnshire
15 January 2008
