The consequences of living beyond our means
While each of the current challenges in our core services (NHS, Royal Mail, water, rail, etc) may have has its own explanations, causes and proposed fixes, together they ultimately add up to a systemi...
13 Jan 202312min
Where is the money coming from for investment?
With a lot of investment required for UK infrastructure – in water, in broadband/fibre, in the wind farms, the electricity grid, in heating conversions, and in electric transport - a massive amount of...
4 Jan 202312min
Gas next winter - no need to panic
As the International Energy Agency forecasts another gas crisis in 2024, let’s look at the facts. There are three reasons why the IEA’s fears may not materialise. First, on the Russia–Ukraine position...
13 Dec 202211min
Greta Thunberg was right about COP27
Greta was right. COP27 has not made serious progress on mitigating climate change. Instead of concentrating on addressing the failures at Glasgow to set nationally determined contributions (NDCs) matc...
22 Nov 202213min
COP27 – it's all about the money
26 COPs to date have not delivered, so why will COP27 (or even the next 27 COPs) be any different? It won't and here is why. It's all about the money, and the money is all about who pays for the po...
7 Nov 202212min
What happens if gas prices continue to fall?
Whenever there is a fossil-fuel price shock, there’s a great temptation to think that the higher prices are here to stay, that this is the ‘new normal’. It happened after the great OPEC shocks of the...
2 Nov 202212min
The Retreat From Net Zero, And How To Stop It
The sound of Russian gunfire and the alarm has gone off on energy security. The retreat from the net zero strategies is all too apparent: keeping coal-fired power stations running, increasing the coal...
30 Juni 202212min
Windfall taxes are a mark of energy policy failures
Faced with sharply rising household energy bills, there is great political consensus that this is a good time to bash the companies with a windfall tax. Prices have gone up, companies are benefiting f...
6 Juni 202211min
