Mr. Stephen Lovegrove is the New Permanent Secretary at DECC

The Department for Energy and Climate Change building in Whitehall. 

Even if "change ain't good", to paraphrase the classics, the Department for Energy and Climate Change has appointed a brand new permanent secretary, enters Mr. Stephen Lovegrove, ladies and gentlemen.

Mr. Lovegrove served until now as the Chief Executive of the Shareholder  Executive, and now he will replaced the former DECC permanent secretary, Moria Wallace, who left the building in October 2012.

Initially, Mr. David Kennedy,   the current Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change was appointed for the job, but the Prime Minister intervened, this move created some controversy as the Prime Minister blocked the appointment of Mr. Kennedy, as the new permanent secretary at the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Mr. Kennedy's appointment as the new permanent secretary at DECC was strongly supported by senior civil servants and some of the ministers, but the Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron had other ideas in mind, he stated that the permanent secretary at DECC must be a person with serious corporate experience in his resume.

Exits Mr. Kennedy, enters Lovegrove, who was the head of the European media team of Deutsche Bank for ten years in a row (Deutsche Bank is one of the biggest players in the financial market today),  before joining the Shareholder Executive position.

He also had a position as a board member of the The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2012.

Mr. Ed Davey made the following remark about the appointment of Mr. Lovegrove as the new permanent secretary at the Department for Energy and Climate Change:

 “We need to attract billions in private sector investment to build new power stations and to upgrade the energy efficiency of the nation’s homes.  Stephen and I worked together for nearly two years when I was a Minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, not least on the reform of Royal Mail, so I know he will be a huge asset to DECC.”

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“Denying green energy is good for growth is as perverse as denying climate change” dixit Davey

I hope you all know who mr. Ed Davey is, if you don’t, well, he is the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whatever the hell this is anyway, I mean Global Warming, Climate Change, what’s next? These people should make up their mind, but that’s not the point of the article.

 In a recent stand at a party convention, he took a speech in which he vigorously defended the Liberal Democrats green ideas, more precisely, he said:

 “[Green growth] it’s much, much bigger than many realize and bigger than the skeptics want people to know about.”
Legolas continued: “Green growth is the fastest around and at the heart of rebalancing the British economy. How can the critics ignore this? Why won't they champion this British growth opportunity? How can they let ideology blind them to what is happening right before their eyes? My message to them is simple: no turning back from tackling climate change; no turning back green jobs; no turning back from green growth.
Davey concluded: “To deny our green energy revolution is good for growth, is as perverse as denying climate change”

In an interview for Observer, Davey also criticized the orcs from the Conservative party (you know, Orcs are like the opposite of elves, they are industrialist, they pollute, smell bad, burn the forest etc.) stating:
Noises off at the margins are undermining investors' confidence and that is undermining green growth, and that is undermining the central purpose of the government, which is deficit reduction.
He added: "When you hear all that noise on the right of politics that worries investors. They think, 'Well if I am going to put all this money in - it is a 30-year investment - I need to know that if the government changes we are not going to have some right-wing Tea Party tendency taking over.'"

At the Liberal Democrats Party Convention, Mr. Davey described the challenges that must be met in the next decade or something like that:

“Replacing our ageing power stations closing over the next decade will attract £110bn of investment. Energy is half; yes half, of all Britain's planned infrastructure investment. And since this summer's Olympics was so fabulous - let me get in on the act. Britain's green growth opportunity is like building 20 Olympic Stadiums every year until 2020.

“So that's why British industry wants us to crack on with our energy reforms - the foundation of Britain's future low carbon economy. Industry knows this will stimulate the investment the economy needs. Our reforms will unlock billions of private investment in energy produced here in the UK: wind, marine, solar hydro, nuclear and carbon capture and storage.

“Private investors will fund the vast bulk of what we need. Unlike many other projects, green growth need not mean red ink. The energy projects that I want to drive are ready now, they are what the Treasury calls shovel ready.”

Mr. Davey concluded: “Our campaigns changed the political agenda so much that we can now become a world green leader. That's how far Britain has come, that's how far we have come so let us say loud and clear, on our green future there will be no turning back.”

Mr. Davey’s eloquent speech served, or it should be seen as a warning for the people in the Coalition Government who try to postpone/reduce the amount of money invested in the production of green energy. In UK, after Mr. Ed Miliband’s public stand regarding the huge potential of alternative energies, the Conservatives are the only important party who has not explicitly stated publicly that the investments in alternative green energy are a solution for times of crisis and austerity.

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