Financial Times
June 19, 2007
Decentralised Energy
Increasingly the large-scale, centrally-planned model looks
inefficient and out of date. Climate change has become a mainstream
political issue, and energy customers are aware of the need to cut
energy use and switch to cleaner forms of electricity generation to
limit carbon emissions. This has led to arguments that large power
stations burning fossil fuels should give way to smaller, renewable
energy units sited closer (...)