A breakthrough for negawatts

The government has announced it will create a market-wide incentive for energy saving, or negawatts, for the first time, starting with a pilot in 2014. Green Alliance first proposed this idea in 2010. The government has chosen to support negawatts through the capacity market, the mechanism to ensure security of supply. While this may limit the role of electricity efficiency to reducing peak demand, the principle of paying to save energy has been established and the market can grow. 

See our infographic explaining how a market for negawatts can work.

We’d like to thank the European Climate Foundation, WWF and the Association for the Conservation of Energy for their support of this work.

Cities: the new green entrepreneurs

The latest issue of our journal Inside Track  focuses on cities as dynamic leaders of low carbon economic development. It features articles on innovative initiatives in Nottingham and Manchester and urban designer Sir Terry Farrell outlines his vision for the Thames estuary.

Inside track 32 - Cities: the new green entrepreneurs
Inside track past issues

Why we need landfill bans

Our latest infographic demonstrates that, if food, textiles, wood, and plastics were kept out of landfill, like cars and electronic goods, at least £2.5 billion worth of resources would be kept in production each year. 

Why we need landfill bans 

News release 27 March 2013: '£2.5bn of resources could be recovered each year by extending landfill bans' 

Green Roots programme

Under our Green Roots programme, we are running three specific projects until 2014 on green conservatism, green liberalism  and green social democracy, seeking to stimulate green thinking more deeply into the philosophical traditions of the three main parties. This major new programme is being jointly supported by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, The Ashden Trust and the European Climate Foundation.

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