Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Special Interests in the 'Low Carbon Buildings Programme'

Shocked to find that the renewable energy grants for charities, public and non-profit sectors are being monopolised by a small groups of so-called 'Framework Suppliers':

http://www.lowcarbonbuildingsphase2.org.uk/page.jsp?id=6

Why should E.ON get the contracts for public sector renewables? Are they not funding the building of new coal power stations? And British Gas, that great bastion of increasing energy bills. How can they be trusted to effectively install microgeneration technologies that will lower their profits in the long term?

There seems to be some special interests going on here, and powerful lobbyists at E.ON have monopolised the contracts for supplying 'green' technologies to the non-profit sector.