{"id":4516,"date":"2015-06-19T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2015-06-19T16:05:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:05:38","slug":"joined-up-energy-strategy-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"Joined-up energy strategy vital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The closure of the E.ON gas-fired power station at Killingholme in north Lincolnshire in September is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098wake up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 call for the government to talk to industry leaders and trade unions about a joined-up energy strategy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite was commenting as E.ON announced on Thursday (June 18) that the plant was no longer viable as it had failed to secure a Supplemental Balancing Reserve (SBR) contract which comes into play when there are huge spikes in electricity demand on the national grid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 57 jobs were due to be lost, but Unite regional officer Paresh Patel said that due to redeployment and natural wastage this had been reduced to 22 roles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite is proactively engaged in talks with the E.ON management to find alternative employment with the company for the workers still at risk,&#8221; Patel said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe intend to mitigate the job losses, which is grim news for the local economy as these are skilled jobs that are being shed, as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bTalking to industry executives, it is clear that the UK needs a joined-up energy policy to secure supplies for industry and the consumer in future \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the closure of the E.ON plant is Killingholme is yet another wake-up call for ministers.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Centrica gas-fired station, which is next door to the E.ON plant, has received a reprieve until February\/March next year as it did win a SBR contract for the forthcoming winter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The E.ON announcement came on the same day as the government said that new subsidies for onshore wind farms will end from April 2016 which Unite warned was \u00e2\u20ac\u0098misguided\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture by David Wright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The closure of the E.ON gas-fired power station at Killingholme in north Lincolnshire in September is a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098wake up\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 call for the government to talk to industry leaders and trade unions about a joined-up energy strategy. &nbsp; &nbsp; Unite was commenting as E.ON announced on Thursday (June 18) that the plant was no longer viable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"wps_subtitle":"Killingholme power station closure 'wake up' call for ministers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4518,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}