Solar subsidy

Solar subsidy changes could deal 'fatal blow' to industry

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Planned government changes to subsidies on solar power may deal the industry a "fatal blow", two parliamentary committees are warning.

The Environmental Audit Committee and Energy and Climate Change Committee say ministers are right to make changes, but are doing so "clumsily".

Government plans include restricting access to solar subsidies to houses meeting energy efficiency standards.

Thousands of solar industry jobs could be at risk, the committees warn.

On Thursday, a group of companies and environmental groups won a legal judgement against one of the changes.

Central to their campaign was the Department of Energy and Climate Change's (Decc) plan to halve abruptly the level of feed-in tariff (FiT) that small-scale solar installations attract, from 43p per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to 21p.

The FiTs are paid by energy companies to householders and communities to subsidise solar electricity generation.

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This will have a devastating effect on hundreds of solar companies and small building firms installing these panels across the country”

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It had been expected that the new tariff would come into effect from 1 April; but in October, the government said it would apply to anyone installing their solar panels after 12 December.

The High Court ruled that changing the tariffs before the end of an official consultation period was "legally flawed".

The two committees said ministers were right to cut the tariffs - but not in the way they did.

"There is no question that solar subsidies needed to be urgently reduced, but the government has handled this clumsily," said Tim Yeo, chairman of the Environmental Audit Committee.

"Ministers should have spotted the solar 'gold rush' much earlier. That way subsidy levels could have been reduced in a more orderly way without delivering such a shock to the industry."

The MPs described the quick tariff change as "panicky", and said it "smacks of retrospective regulation, which undermines confidence in the government's management of other energy policies".

The root cause is solar panels have proved far more popular than the government suspected when it introduced the FiT in April last year.

The cost of installing them has fallen faster than anticipated, by 30% since the scheme began. And with wholesale gas prices pushing up the cost of electricity from the grid, demand for solar panels rocketed

As a result, about 90% of the funds that the government wanted to be spent during the four-year FiT programme has already been allocated.

Industry concerns

Among the government's other proposals are changing the criteria for eligibiligy for FiTs.

The consultation suggests that houses should have to meet insulation standards before they qualify - for example, insisting that it should have an Energy Performance Certificate C rating at least.

Campaigners warned the changes risked thousands of jobs - and MPs agreed

Government data suggest this would require 86% of homes to get an upgrade before becoming eligible. In most cases this would cost about £5,600, but could be much more expensive.

For a semi-detatched house with solid walls, the bill could be up to £14,000 - and with solar panel installation coming in at an average of £9,000, the committees fear a huge impact on uptake, potentially dealing the industry a "fatal blow".

"The government is right to encourage people to focus on saving energy before fitting solar panels, but these proposals will require most households to spend thousands of pounds on extra insulation before they even purchase the panels," said Joan Walley, who chairs the Energy and Climate Change Committee.

"This will stop nine out of 10 installations from going ahead, which will have a devastating effect on hundreds of solar companies and small building firms installing these panels across the country."

The Solar Trade Association, which represents more than 450 companies in the field, has surveyed industry chiefs and estimates that a third of companies could close as a result of the proposed changes.

Its chairman, Howard Johns, welcomed the committees' report.

"We are particularly pleased the committees have urged Decc to abandon the more extreme energy efficiency eligibility proposals, which could stamp out the UK solar market next year," he said.

"What is missing, however, is recognition that solar can deliver nothing less than an energy revolution at a cost to households lower than, for example, the levy imposed by wind energy."

A Decc spokesman said the report would be considered fully, but believed the changes were needed.

"We appreciate the uncertainty faced because of the changes we have proposed to the FiT scheme, but we believe solar projects will still be an attractive investment," he told BBC News.

But shadow energy and climate change secretary Caroline Flint described the report as a "damning indictment" of a government that was "out of touch".

"The government's chaotic mismanagement has put thousands of jobs and businesses in the solar industry in jeopardy, undermined confidence and investment in the whole energy sector and gives lie to the government's promise to be the 'greenest government ever'," she said.

The government sees solar playing a small role in the coming decade, certainly much smaller than wind.

But in a recent YouGov opinion survey, it emerged as the most popular energy technology, with 74% of respondents wanting the government to use more than it does at present.

The figure for wind was 56%. Only 16% wanted the use of coal to increase, while 43% preferred a reduction.

Flybe launches three new routes from Norwich Airport

The budget airline Flybe has announced plans to operate three new routes from Norwich International Airport.

The firm, along with its partner Loganair, will fly to Exeter, Manchester and Newquay from March 2012.

The move will create 15 new jobs for pilots, cabin crew and engineering staff in Norwich, a spokesman said.

Jonathan Hinkles, Loganair's chief operating officer, said: "Improved air links and the creation of new jobs in the city is great news for Norwich."

Loganair also plans to base an aircraft at the airport.

Daily services between Norwich and Exeter will start on 25 March.

A new summer service to Newquay will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 5 May and 22 September.

Three return flights to Manchester every day will start on Monday 5 March.

Supermassive black hole

Supermassive black hole will 'eat' gas cloud

Though it is known that black holes draw in everything nearby, it will be the first chance to see one consume such a cloud.

As it is torn apart, the turbulent area around the black hole will become unusually bright, giving astronomers a chance to learn more about it.

The cloud, which is described in Nature, should meet its end in 2013.

Researchers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope estimate that despite its size, the cloud has a total mass of only about three times that of Earth.

They have plotted the cloud's squashed, oval-shaped path and estimate it has doubled its speed in the last seven years - to 2,350km per second.

It should spiral in to within about 40 billion kilometres of the black hole in the middle of 2013.

Reviews of existing pictures from the VLT show the cloud speeding up in recent years

Our local supermassive black hole, dubbed Sagittarius A*, lies about 27,000 light-years away, and has a mass about four million times that of our Sun.

As the name implies, beyond a certain threshold point - the event horizon - nothing can escape its pull, not even light itself.

But outside that regime is a swirling mass of material, not unlike water circling a drain. In astronomical terms, is a relatively quiet zone about which little is known.

That looks set to change, though, as the gas cloud approaches.

Spaghetti tester

It does not comprise enough matter to hold itself together under its own gravity, as a star might, so the cloud will begin to elongate as it meets its doom.

"The idea of an astronaut close to a black hole being stretched out to resemble spaghetti is familiar from science fiction," said lead author of the study Stefan Gillessen, from Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany.

"But we can now see this happening for real to the newly discovered cloud. It is not going to survive the experience."

It is likely that about half of the cloud will be swallowed up, with the remainder flung back out into space.

But this violent process will literally shed light on the closest example we have of an enigmatic celestial object.

The acceleration of the cloud's constituent material will create a shower of X-rays that will help astronomers learn more about our local black hole.

As astronomer Mark Morris of the University of California Los Angeles put it in an accompanying article in Nature, "many telescopes are likely to be watching".

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We are announcing a world-first, low-carbon aviation fuel with half the carbon footprint of the standard, fossil-fuel alternative. The partnership represents a breakthrough in aviation fuel technology that will see waste gases from industrial steel production being captured, fermented and chemically converted for use as a jet fuel. The revolutionary fuel production process recycles waste gases that would otherwise be flared off into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide -- so is the next step forward from our previous biofuels work. We anticipate that within two to three years, Virgin Atlantic will use the new fuel on its routes from Shanghai and Delhi to London Heathrow, as LanzaTech develop facilities in China and India. We also hope that the technology will be retrofitted to UK facilities, as well as other facilities worldwide, enabling us to uplift a significant proportion of low-carbon fuel across the world.

The LanzaTech Process

The LanzaTech Process can convert carbon monoxide containing gases produced by industries such as steel manufacturing, oil refining and chemical production, as well as gases generated by gasification of forestry and agricultural residues,  municipal waste, and coal into valuable fuel and chemical products. The robust process is flexible to the hydrogen content in the input gas and tolerant of typical gas contaminants. 

The carbon monoxide containing gas enters the process at the bottom of the bioreactor, and is dispersed into the liquid medium where it is consumed by LanzaTech's proprietary microbes as the reactor contents move upward in the reactor vessel.

The net product is withdrawn and sent to the product recovery section.

The product recovery section makes use of an advanced hybrid separation system to recover the valuable products and co-products from the fermentation broth. The water is recovered and returned to the reactor system, minimizing water discharge from the process.  The products and co-products are collected for downstream use.  

In some cases, these products can be used directly as fuel or chemical products.  In many cases it is also possible to convert products from the LanzaTech process in to common chemicals or ‘drop in’ fuels that are normally derived from petroleum. 

The LanzaTech process provides a route from waste gases and solids to valuable fuel and chemical products, reusing carbon along the way to minimize environmental impact.

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wind turbines in Ardrossan

Scotland storm: Work to restore power to homes

Fire engines attended a blaze at wind turbines in Ardrossan in Ayrshire on Thursday

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The Scottish government is warning that some people may not get the electricity back on in their homes until the weekend after the worst storm in a decade.

Engineers are battling to reconnect more than 70,000 homes which were without power after the storms.

Most schools are expected to reopen after many councils and businesses closed early on Thursday.

There is still some disruption to travel services.

Storm-force winds on Thursday brought down trees, closed roads and knocked out power lines.

About 150,000 homes are thought to have lost power during the day.

The Scottish government said the storms had eased over the central belt.

However, the storms later caused disruption across the Highlands, Moray, north Aberdeenshire and Orkney.

Overnight severe winds washed away part of a causeway road on the Orkney island of Hoy.

Part of the road surface of the Ayre, which links the communities of Hoy and South Walls, broke up after 22:00 on Thursday and the road remains completely impassable.

There are fears more damage could be caused at high tide.

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There are currently 800 homes without power across the islands.

All schools on Orkney remain closed and BBC Radio Orkney is off air after the transmitter was damaged in the storm.

In Aberdeen, several families were evacuated from a tenement in the Kincorth area after the gable end of a house collapsed on to a car.

No-one was injured.

The families have been put up in emergency accommodation until the building can be made safe.

Grampian Police said there had been several early morning road crashes in which motorists had driven into trees lying on the road.

Grampian Fire and Rescue dealt with 75 storm-related call-outs on Thursday night, three times the normal amount.

Many calls were to remove trees and chimney pots and a number of trampolines which had blown away.

They also put out grass fires caused by electrical cables coming down.

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A senior fire officer told the BBC it was the most severe storm in his 20 years of service.

In the Highlands, the Skye Bridge remains closed to high-sided vehicles.

The A82 at Corran is closed due to a landslide and will remain shut until at least 10:00 when a review will take place.

All schools in Caithness and the north coast of Sutherland will be closed.

Scottish and Southern Energy/Scottish Hydro said on Friday morning there were 70,000 customers without electricity.

Scottish Hydro, which supplies most areas north of Stirling, said all parts of its region were affected.

Scottish Power, which is responsible for supply in the southern part of Scotland, said it had 2,500 homes without power at 08:00 on Friday.

It said the figure had been 45,000 at its peak on Thursday.

Guy Jefferson, operations director at Scottish Power, said the problems were across the region from Stranraer to St Andrews but the biggest remaining problems were in Ayrshire and Fife.

He said he hoped to get its customers reconnected by the end of Friday but it would be a "gigantic" task.

Engineers have been battling with fallen trees and downed power lines

A wind turbine at Ardrossan Wind Farm, near the A78 in North Ayrshire, was destroyed after it caught fire.

Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service said it had a high number of calls as the 328ft (100m) tall turbine could be seen "far and wide".

Strong winds forced the closure of every major bridge in Scotland: the Forth Road Bridge between Edinburgh and Fife; the Erskine Bridge, which connects Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire; the Skye Bridge; and Tay Road Bridge.

Glasgow was one of the worst-hit areas on Thursday, with 71mph winds recorded at lunchtime.

Across Scotland local authorities have been assessing structural damage to schools and council properties.

Many were hoping that schools and nurseries could reopen on Friday, but some were due to asses the situation in the morning.

Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has been chairing the Scottish government's resilience committee, said: "While the worst of the weather has subsided across the central belt, other areas of the country are still experiencing severe conditions.

"Contractors are working hard to resolve remaining issues on our roads and with power supplies.

"I would urge all members of the public to continue to take care and heed advice from police and travel authorities.

"The situation across the country will be monitored overnight and the resilience committee will meet again at 08:30 hours tomorrow morning to assess the position."

However, Ms Sturgeon warned that some customers may not be reconnected before the weekend.

SSE Announces Disposal of Ardrossan Wind Farm

Monday, May 24, 2010

SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy plc) has sold its 100% interest in Ardrossan Windfarm (Scotland) Ltd - which owns and operates a 30MW (megawatt) wind farm in Ayrshire. The purchaser is Infinis, a Terra Firma company.

The transaction comprises a cash consideration of £28.1m paid to SSE and outstanding project debt of £25.7m, transferred to Infinis, giving a total of £53.8m.

Ardrossan Windfarm (Scotland) Ltd was originally owned by Airtricity (acquired by SSE in 2008) and Viridis (Denmark) ApS on a 51%/49% basis. SSE acquired Viridis' interest in April 2010.

The wind farm at Ardrossan was first commissioned in 2004 and was extended in 2009. All of the electricity generated at the site is sold to a third party.

Gregor Alexander, Finance Director of SSE, said:"We own generation assets in order to provide electricity for our customers, and with electricity generated at the site going elsewhere, Ardrossan did not fit in to our portfolio. In our results statement earlier this week, we said we would use acquisitions and disposals to optimise our wind farm portfolio, and this sale is in line with that."

Senior Management Team

Guy Hands

CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER

Guy Hands is Terra Firma's Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and Founder. Guy sits on the Investment General Partners’ boards.

Guy started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Goldman Sachs’ Global Asset Structuring Group. Guy left Goldman’s in 1994 to establish the Principal Finance Group (PFG) at Nomura International plc which acquired 15 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of €20 billion. Guy led the spin out of PFG to form Terra Firma in 2002.

Guy has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Mansfield College, Oxford University. He was elected a Global Leader of Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies

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People's Republic of China PP-Pulp and Paper

Novarese Inc. Japan RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Odontoprev SA Brazil HE-Global Health & Healthcare

OJSC AK Bars Bank Russian Federation BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Option NV Belgium IT-Information Technology

Organização Jaime Câmara Brazil ME-Media, Entertainment & 

Information

OTKRITIE Financial Corporation 

JSC

Russian Federation BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Overseas Infrastructure Alliance 

(India) Pvt. Ltd (OIAPL)

India PS-Professional Services

Point Inc. Japan RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Pokeware USA IT-Information Technology

Power Dekor Group Co. Ltd People's Republic of China RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Press Corporation Limited Malawi FB-Agriculture, Food & Beverage

PT Agung Podomoro Land, TBk Indonesia IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

PT Dexa Medica Indonesia HE-Global Health & Healthcare

PT Gajah Tunggal Tbk Indonesia AU-Automotive

PT Indika Energy Tbk Indonesia EN-Energy

QI Group Malaysia RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd 

(Qihoo 360)

People's Republic of China IT-Information Technology

QInvest LLC Qatar BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Quvat Management Pte Ltd Singapore PI-Private Investors

Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals 

Ltd

India RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

ReachLocal Inc. USA ME-Media, Entertainment & 

Information

RedMed Group SpA Algeria EN-EnergyRingCentral USA TC-Telecommunications

RMZ Corp. India IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Rockcheck Steel Group Co. Ltd People's Republic of China MM-Mining & Metals

ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd Japan HE-Global Health & Healthcare

RUBENIUS United Arab Emirates EN-Energy

Sacrum Inc. USA PS-Professional Services

Saigon Investment Corporation Vietnam IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Saini Industries Limited India MM-Mining & Metals

SamCorp Peru ME-Media, Entertainment & 

Information

Sangari Brazil ME-Media, Entertainment & 

Information

Saudi Arabian Mining Company 

"Ma'aden"

Saudi Arabia MM-Mining & Metals

SBI Holdings Inc. Japan BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Schoeller Industries GmbH Germany SCT-Supply Chain & Transport

Scomi Group BhD Malaysia EN-Energy

Sekunjalo Investments Ltd South Africa HE-Global Health & Healthcare

Septeni Holdings Co. Ltd Japan ME-Media, Entertainment & 

Information

Sequedge Group Japan PS-Professional Services

Serum Institute of India Ltd India HE-Global Health & Healthcare

SGC - SGPS SA Portugal AU-Automotive

Shanghai Baromon (Group) 

Company

People's Republic of China RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Shanghai TianYi Investment 

Group Co. Ltd

People's Republic of China BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Shree Cement Ltd India IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Sinosafe General Insurance Co. 

Ltd

People's Republic of China IS-Insurance & Asset 

Management

Sintesa Group (PT 

Widjajatunggal Sejahtera)

Indonesia PI-Private Investors

SIT La Precisa SpA Italy IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Skype Communications S.à r.l Luxembourg TC-Telecommunications

Solid Technologies Inc. Republic of Korea TC-Telecommunications

SouthWest Energy (HK) Ltd Ethiopia EN-Energy

SPX Corporation USA RS-Renewable Energy Shapers

Success Factors USA IT-Information Technology

Suruga Bank Japan BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Sutherland Global Services USA PS-Professional Services

Symtech Group Inc. USA PI-Private Investors

Synergy Health Plc United Kingdom HE-Global Health & Healthcare

TAK Agro Nigeria FB-Agriculture, Food & Beverage

Tan Tao Group Vietnam IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Technogym SPA Italy RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

The Bird Group India AT- Aviation &Travel

The Kuwaiti Danish Dairy 

Company KCSC

Kuwait FB-Agriculture, Food & Beverage

The Saudi British Bank (SABB) Saudi Arabia BK-Banking & Capital Markets

The Symbio Group People's Republic of China IT-Information Technology

ThoughtWorks Inc. USA IT-Information Technology

Tianjin Automobile Industry 

(Group) Co. Ltd

People's Republic of China AU-Automotive

Tianjin Bohai Chemical Industry 

Group

People's Republic of China CH-Chemicals

Tianjin Cotton Exchange Market 

(TCEM)

People's Republic of China RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Tianjin Gas Group Co. Ltd People's Republic of China EN-Energy

Tianjin Hi-Tech Holding Group 

Co. Ltd

People's Republic of China HO-Holding, Trade, 

Import/Export

Tianjin House Construction 

Development Group Co. Ltd

People's Republic of China IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Tianjin Infrastructure  People's Republic of China IU-Infrastructure & Urban Construction & Investment 

(Group) Co. Ltd

Development

Tianjin Jinbin Development Co. 

Ltd

People's Republic of China IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Tianjin Jinneng Investment 

Company

People's Republic of China EN-Energy

Tianjin Tasly Pharmaceutical Co. 

Ltd

People's Republic of China HE-Global Health & Healthcare

Tianjin TEDA Construction Group

Ltd

People's Republic of China IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Tianjin TEDA Group Co. Ltd People's Republic of China IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Tianjin Yiqing Group People's Republic of China RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Tianjin Zhonghuan Electronics 

and Information Group Co. Ltd

People's Republic of China IT-Information Technology

Tianjin Zhongxin Pharmaceutical 

Group Corporation Ltd

People's Republic of China HE-Global Health & Healthcare

TIBCO Software Inc. USA IT-Information Technology

TisoGroup South Africa PI-Private Investors

Tong Yang Securities Inc. Republic of Korea BK-Banking & Capital Markets

TOTVS Brazil IT-Information Technology

Transport Corporation of India 

Ltd

India SCT-Supply Chain & Transport

Trend Micro Incorporated Japan IT-Information Technology

Trina Solar Ltd People's Republic of China EN-Energy

TrueCar USA AU-Automotive

Tulip Telecom Limited India TC-Telecommunications

Uch Power (Private) Limited (Uch 

I & II)

Pakistan EN-Energy

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. USA PS-Professional Services

Union Bank of India India BK-Banking & Capital Markets

United Venture Group People's Republic of China BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Valecha Engineering Limited India IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

VeriFone Systems Inc. USA TC-Telecommunications

Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and 

Rural Development (Agribank)

Vietnam BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Vietnam Construction and 

Import-Export Joint Stock Corp. 

(VINACONEX)

Vietnam IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Vietnam Industrial Investment Ltd Vietnam MM-Mining & Metals

Vietnam Posts and 

Telecommunications Group 

(VNPT)

Vietnam TC-Telecommunications

Vingroup Vietnam IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Viraj Profiles Limited India IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Wadhawan Group India IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Waha Capital United Arab Emirates PI-Private Investors

Wermuth Asset Management 

GmbH

Germany PI-Private Investors

Will Holdings Japan PS-Professional Services

WISeKey SA Switzerland IT-Information Technology

WNS Global Services India PS-Professional Services

Wuxi Suntech Power Co. Ltd People's Republic of China RS-Renewable Energy Shapers

Wyse Technology Inc. USA IT-Information Technology

XO Group Inc USA ME-Media, Entertainment & 

Information

YES BANK Limited India BK-Banking & Capital Markets

Yida Group Co. Ltd People's Republic of China IU-Infrastructure & Urban 

Development

Zensar Technologies Ltd India IT-Information Technology

Zhaikmunai LP Kazakhstan EN-Energy

Zhejiang China Commodities City 

Group Co. Ltd

People's Republic of China RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Zhejiang Huaxing Group Co. Ltd People's Republic of China EN-EnergyZhejiang Lehoo Holding Group 

Co. Ltd

People's Republic of China RC-Retail & Consumer Goods

Zhejiang Panshi Information & 

Technology Co. Ltd

People's Republic of China IT-Information Technoloin 2000 in recognition of his achievements. Guy is also the President of “Access for Excellence”, a campaign based at Mansfield College, Oxford, which promotes the broadest possible access to higher education in the U.K. He is a Bancroft Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford and a member of the University of Oxford Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors. Additionally, Guy is a Fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme.