Energy Policy
The GB Capacity Market was introduced with a clear and repeatedly stated objective: to ensure security of electricity supply by bringing forward new capacity where the market would not do so on its own. In particular, it was meant to underwrite the construction of [...]
This evening my latest report: The true affordability of net zero, was launched at an event hosted by The Lord Offord of Garvel, Shadow Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero in the House of Lords. The event was attended by MPs, Peers and [...]
In the 9th anniversary of the start of my blog, I’m feeling very encouraged by the growing net zero realism. I have long argued against current climate policies on the basis they are making energy more expensive and less secure, without any meaningful reductions [...]
Writing my review of 2024 got me thinking about the link between energy and economy. Cheap energy is positive for economies while expensive energy is negative – that is not in question, and is why policy-makers are at pains to claim that renewables are [...]
In its Clean Power 2030 plan, system operator, NESO, states that materially all of the existing fleet of CCGTs will be required to run approximately 5% of the time in order to meet demand on days when renewables output is low. “Around 35 GW [...]
Today I have published a new report into the heat pumps market and the UK’s policies for decarbonising heating. The UK Government has set ambitious targets for the deployment of heat pumps as the main route to decarbonising home heating. But progress is slow [...]
Last week the Global Warming Policy Foundation has published a short report I wrote in the use of electricity interconnectors in the GB power market. Aimed at a lay audience, the report sets out the challenges we face in our growing reliance on electricity [...]
In the third and final post in my series on the energy policies outlined in the election manifestos of the three main UK political parties, I take a look at the second opposition party – the Liberal Democrats. My previous posts on the Conservative [...]
In the second in my series on the energy policies outlined in the election manifestos of the three main UK political parties, I take a look at the main opposition party and likely winner of this year’s General Election – the Labour Party. My [...]
Former Labour MP Gerald Kaufman famously described his party’s 1983 election manifesto as the “longest suicide note in history”. He was referring to the socialist nature of the policies contained in the document, which were out of step with the more right-wing mindset of [...]