As energy bills continue to rise, renewable energy becomes a high priority

As a result of the rises in energy prices, which continue to impact household utilities bills, the government announces plans to move away from fossil fuels towards ‘green’ energy including wind, water and solar.
The Business Secretary, John Hutton recently unveiled the proposed investment of £100bn to revolutionise the energy production systems in the UK.  This could however bring an additional cost to the consumer through further increases in gas and electricity bills from around 2015 – 2020.  An alarming concept, as utilities bills have already risen 15% this year and are expected to continue.

It is anticipated that householders will be encouraged to fit solar panels on their roofs with financial incentives to boost usage from the 90,000 in use today to 7 million by 2010.  Ground source and air source heat pumps are another heat provider which will be targeted by the government to encourage more households to adopt this method of harnessing power to drive a 90% increase on current levels.  Biofuels have not featured strongly in the initiative.

The use of biomass energy has faced some scrutiny, because of the knock on effect to the environment and households.  Some consider that the growing crops could lead to the encouragement of global deforestation and intensive farming, and for households this means higher costs for foods, such as wheat and maize, especially as competition for land increases.  Biomass energy is currently viewed to be carbon neutral because the CO2 it releases on burning is absorbed when the plant grew.

Government strategies and environmental research all point to the same message: that we will all have to reconsider how we live and what energy we use, to make sure that we are positively contributing to the preservation of our environment, in any way we can.

Renewable energy technologies are an efficient way to heat and power your home and, long term, will save money on fuel bills.  Additional renewable energy technologies also lower carbon footprints and help to reduce climate change.

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