E.ON chief: Preserve coal plants to keep lights on | Business | The Guardian

Ageing coal-fired power stations should be exempted from environmental regulations and kept open to stop the lights from going out, the chief executive of E.ON UK has urged the government.

Paul Golby told the Guardian that some of the coal and oil-fired plants due to close this decade because of European pollution regulations should remain operational and ready to come online during periods of peak demand such as those experienced in recent weeks.

The Migrant Mind: How energy use warms the earth

The interesting thing is that GISS and NOAA make all sorts of corrections for the errors in the temperature measurments, but none of them correct for the energy use density expected from the high energy lifestyle of modern cities.

Remembering When Enron Saved the U.S. Wind Industry (January 1997) — MasterResource

January 7, 1997, some 13 years ago, was one of the worst in my 16-year career at Enron. Enron had already entered into the solar business (1994) in partnership with Amoco (Solarex), and the U.S. wind industry was on its back. Zond Corporation was struggling, and rival Kenetech had recently suspended its dividend and was on the way to bankruptcy. Enron bought Zond on this day and renamed it Enron Wind Company.

Enron Wind would never turn a profit, and it would be sold in May 2002 by the bankrupt parent to GE. (GE and Enron would have other ominous parallels.)

Enron came in at just the right time for a troubled, undeserving industry...

Climate change doubts threaten to undermine David Cameron's pledges - Telegraph

Ten Conservative election candidates have been sent on a green "re-education" day by Steve Hilton, the party's head of strategy to "bring them on board".