The Green Book: New Directions for Liberals in Government (http://www.green-book.org.uk) brings together 27 leading Liberal Democrats and sympathetic experts to propose radical and innovative new directions for the Liberal Democrats.
Although the full book is not available yet, the introduction and chapters give strong clues as the direction. More "Green" taxes, hard targets for manufacturers and a reliance on community based generation and importing electricity from our European partners.
Unfortunately for businesses, this reads as higher costs. Distributed, community generation schemes are not efficient, and will require backup sources to meet the peaks of daily demand. Importing electricity just moved the pollution to another country. Great for emissions targets, but higher energy losses equal higher prices.
Energy storage is the biggest issue for Green energy, and one which hold great financial rewards, unfortunately it does seem to deserve a chapter.
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