Curbs to French power exports
Cuts to French electricity exports began earlier this year and will continue into the autumn. Listen to a discussion on why grid operator RTE impose the export limits and the reaction from inside Fran...
9 Aug 202429min
Has Keir’s time come?
As voters across the UK go to the polls, we take the pulse of the ways a potential Labour government could change the energy landscape. Kier Starmer is committed to a clean power system by 2030, rathe...
28 Juni 202432min
Is it apple pie time today?
As Europe’s power system becomes ever more decentralised, electricity consumption patterns will need to change, and change fast. Huge daily and within-day price differences will mean ever bigger price...
21 Juni 202432min
Picking winners
Even for the best power projects, gaining electricity access from grid operators is far from straightforward. Amid an every lengthening queue of applications, how do TSOs decide what projects to appro...
14 Juni 202430min
EU elections: Fragmentation and paralysis?
As 373m Europeans head to the polls – we ask one simple question. Will the rise of the far right across the EU endanger the energy transition? Pollsters are warning a swing right – and left – will fr...
7 Juni 202429min
Decarbonising heavy industry
The green transition will not succeed unless industrial sectors also manage to decarbonise production processes. Sweden has experienced problems with long-term power purchase deals, with many companie...
30 Maj 202424min
Geopolitical tension rises on creeping escalation
Global geopolitical tensions are growing amid a creeping escalation of the conflicts in the Middle-East and in Ukraine. Listen to a discussion on the dangers to global security and energy supply as ve...
23 Maj 202429min
Flexing French nuclear
What a difference a couple of years makes. As France returns to a position of net power exporter, it appears to have moved on from the supply woes of 2022. But booming solar generation, a plethora of ...
17 Maj 202430min
