Talk:Energy in the United Kingdom

Differentiation and overlap with Energy policy of the United Kingdom

Due to areas of overlap in these 2 articles I did consider putting a merger tag on them. However, on reflection, there seems to be scope for them to develop in different directions if contributors focus on their titles (government policy -v- the real world). If they don't then they do seem to run the risk of becoming duplicates. 80.42.37.198 01:17, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

See discussion at Talk:Energy policy of the United Kingdom Gralo 11:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Power output?

What is the total power output of britain?????? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.8.98 (talk • contribs) 16:32, 27 November 2006

What do you mean by "power"? Do you mean electrical power? And do you mean annual average power, peak power, power generated or consumed? See:

• World energy resources and consumption
• List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions
• List of countries by energy intensity
• List of countries by electricity consumption
• List of countries by energy consumption per capita
• List of countries by electricity production
• List of countries by renewable electricity production

--Teratornis (talk) 18:58, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Electricity Sources I Removed this:

Electricity production by source. Source: the EIA.

Because it is completely wrong, Britain does not have massive thermal energy production, Coal nuclear and gas are the main providers, with Scotland doing well in hydro and wind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.240.66.20 (talk) 12:42, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

Those that you list are thermal. -Theanphibian ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:39, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Conservation in the United Kingdom

Maybe this article should be merged with Conservation in the United Kingdom? Clerks 17:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Carbon emissions

The table of carbon emissions given does not agree with the Defra figures here. On first glance it looks like the figures we have are for CO₂ only. sbandrews 22:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Updated with the figures published in Jan2007, including all greenhouse gasses.

Further, is it true, as stated, that under Kyoto, the UK has an individual commitment to cut emissions? I was under the impression that the EU signed up as a single entity, and that Europe as a whole will 'take the rap' if we miss the target. sbandrews 22:14, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Negotiated jointly, but individually signed and ratified, so it seems.[1] Gralo 20:43, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

...and signed by the EU too - see here Gralo 20:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Environmental Tax idiocy

Why don't we wake up to the fact that our government and parties are totally fooling the British public with their reasons for environmental taxes, these are stealth taxes designed to make more for the treasury to subsidize other areas of the economy, do not get ploughed back into public transport or anti pollution policies and do little to reduce UK, let alone, world carbon emission targets. Wake up people you are being duped. This comment was added 10:26, 6 April 2007 by User:203.78.162.75

See External cost and Tragedy of the Commons. The point of taxing pollution is to prevent market failure by making sure polluters see the full costs of generating pollution. --Teratornis (talk) 19:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Energy Efficiency Commitment 2 (2005-08) and Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (2008-08)=

The article states that little work is being carried out to upgrade existing housing stock. Through EEC2, millions of homes have been insulated, and with the target set to double in this period; insulation activity will carry on rising. This article needs to refer to both EEC2 and CERT to give a true reflection of Energy Efficiency activity in the UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bmpeers (talk • contribs) 21:51, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

You're right - now fixed.Finereach (talk) 13:08, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Targets??

In the 'Past Performance' section, there are bracketed labels reading '(Domestic target)' and '(Kyoto target)' but these do not seem to be in the tables... Are they meant to be?82.44.252.198 (talk) 18:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)