I think we should make the effort to respond to the DTI energy review, by doing so we could hope that at least someone involved makes the effort to visit TOD UK and TOD. Perhaps you could suggest a timetable for pulling the response together. I might suggest about a week for initial suggestions and debate here, a bit less than a week to pull a draft together (possibly involving several people / groups of people if we have the numbers, perhaps working on different aspects) and a week to debate and refine that here before submitting.

I'll come up with some detailed comments once I've read the DTI stuff, within the next few days, may I encourage others here to do likewise? How about asking TOD to post a thread for comments once we've hatched our plan?

A couple of initial thoughts:

• We need to reduce gas fired electricity generation as soon as possible, gas is more beneficial as a heating / cooking fuel.
  
• I think mini and micro generation could have a significant part to play, development of this can be more rapidly and cost-effectively ramped up than large scale generation like clean coal and nuclear.
  
• UK needs an in depth fossil energy resources study, it needs it FAST!  I think it will become increasingly unwise to remain dependent on imported supplies.
  
• Nuclear has a role, certainly I would suggest we maintain or replace current nuclear electricity generation capacity, at least. It will be quite difficult to maintain our existing electricity generation capacity without nuclear.
  
• Renewables have a significant role in several forms of energy, especially at local level.
  
• Combined heat and power (CHP) should be encouraged for local schemes (industries, large businesses, hospitals, schools etc).
  
• Incentives and disincentives encouraging efficient energy use should be strengthened.