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Welcome to The Weekly Geek: decentralised energy

This CHP plant in Denmark is 95 per cent efficient

This combined heat and power plant in Denmark is up to 95 per cent efficient

To celebrate our launch of EfficienCity, we're starting a new, weekly column for all the closet energy geeks out there. Every week, we'll take an in-depth look at one of the technologies we feature in EfficienCity - tidal power, wave power, wind energy, combined heat and power, micro-hydro power, anaerobic digestion, biomass and the rest. We'll also be looking at issues like baseload and the regulatory context for decentralised energy.

So remember to check back each Wednesday and, if you have any suggestions for energy solutions to climate change you'd like to see us cover, just post a comment at the bottom of this page and we'll try to slot it in.

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It's rip-off Britain, even when it comes to climate change

North Hoyle offshore wind farm

John Sauven, our executive director,writing in The Guardian on why Gordon Brown's reluctance to embrace the economic and environmental potential of renewable energy technology is costing us time, money and could eventually cost us the climate.

At the centre of Britain's efforts to tackle climate change are targets for renewable energy, energy efficiency and ultra-efficient combined heat and power (CHP) plants.

Yet as warnings about the impact of global warming grow more severe, every single one of those targets is projected to be missed or has already been abandoned.

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The Convenient Solution - what you can do

If you like our film, please help us to make sure that the UK gets a genuinely clean and efficient energy system.

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Link to www.greenpeace.org.uk/thesolution, send it to a friend, Hugg it, Digg it, add it to your delicious or to your StumbleUpon favourites.

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The convenient solution - case studies

Leading the way

While the government dithers over its energy policy, companies, councils and organisations are taking matters into their own hands. By generating their own clean and efficient energy, they're not only reducing their carbon emmissions but also improving their own security of supply. If your organisation is thinking of doing the same, these case studies may help show you the way. Contact details are provided at the end of each case study to find out more - and, of course, make sure you watch our films on the subject: The Convenient Solution and What Are We Waiting For?