Microgeneration 'essential to energy efficiency'

The generation of energy by local communities and businesses should play a key role in helping to ensure that more homes are energy efficient, it has been suggested.

The Green Alliance has said that the current system is badly skewered in favour of centralised management, adding that significant savings could be made by taking a more localised approach.

The organisation added that microgeneration technologies would begin to become more widespread once the average householder was able to buy them in DIY stores – something that would bring costs down further.

"So much energy is wasted in the current, very centralised, energy system so moving towards one that could be produced and used locally is considerably more efficient," noted the Green Alliance's senior policy advisor Tracy Carty.

"Another dimension is bringing energy closer to people and various studies have showed that it connects people more to the energy they use … it gets them to think more when they turn on and they are more likely to be thoughtful and efficient in using it," Ms Carty added.

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