Serious Change Blog

If you want to get a picture of what energy consumption is like in the UK at present, you can do worse than look at this Energy trends: March 2009:

http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file50354.pdf

It is quite useful to have these figures in mind when reading things like David MacKay’s Without The Hot Air. It shows you how much we will have to change to get to a low carbon energy system, like the energy plans MacKay suggests. It is detailed plans for a new energy system that will be taken seriously by DECC, so we have to understand in as much detail where we are and how we can change.