Anyone fancy a holiday, ahem, trade development mission?

[Energetic]

Hosted by everybodies favourite happy-go-lucky scamp Greg Barker! Who wants to share a room? With greg, not me...

 

[Gavin A]

hmm, it would be unfortunate if something happened to greg while he was out there.

 

[SolarCity]

E Africa? Could be a lucrative kidnapping target - I'm sure we could raise a substantial fee between us if they agreed to keep hold of him.

 

[sedgy34]

im up for it hope its bunkbeds bagzies top bunk ohh yeh greg i wee the bed!! :coolgleamA:

 

[MorganPVI]

Is REA membership separate to REAL?

I never get any emails from them, only from my old pal Virginia.

 

[whinmoor]

im up for it hope its bunkbeds bagzies top bunk ohh yeh greg i wee the bed!! :coolgleamA:

I doubt you'd be allowed to share a room with Greg. He'd probably take his little friend for reasons unknown :blush5:

Pet loving Tory minister Greg Barker microwaves his dog's cushion | Mail Online

 

[Worcester]

REA and REAL are completely seperate legal entities ... No commercial links between them at all.
Also in the same builduing and sometimes answering each others phones, are STA and REAL, though of course they are completely seperate legal entities...

 

[Energetic]

Anyone know who's on this trip representing the UK renewables industry? The solar guys are very excited apparently (GB's twitter) More opportunity in Nigeria than UK?

 

[SRE]

Howard Johns

 

[TedM]

It's not Nigeria BTW, they are visiting Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Full details Greg Barker leads low carbon trade delegation to East Africa - Department of Energy and Climate Change

 

[Eco Deal]

really excited !!!

I be excited when he puts the tarriff up for 3 months ! wish full thinking

 

[Energetic]

Apparently the mission was a success! The Uk renewables industry is saved! However all the work is in africa (not nigeria tho, sorry ted).

Africa is saved as they can now sell off all their oil and gas to the west (i wonder who) instead of using it themselves and use the money to fund their renewables projects... or else...

We are in the south of the UK and kenya is still a fair old drive...

 

[Gavin A]

for a trade mission like this to be a success would we not need to have an actual industry left that manufactured renewables?

I guess there's a few wind manufacturers, kingspan thermomax (and wind as I think they bought Proven), erm some biomass stove manufacturers, romag, and sharp (but not for long apparently) and lots of companies who like to rebadge foreign kit.

meantime half the UK renewables industry seems to be going bust or on the brink of it.