Category: Wider interest
A possible OPEC production increase triggers fall in oil prices
A couple of weeks ago Donald Trump announced the US was withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran, and I wrote that this added to the bullish trend in oil prices. Since then oil prices have fallen f... Read More
Oil price rise set to continue after US pulls out of Iran deal
Oil prices have been in the doldrums since the collapse from record highs of over US$110 /barrel in June 2014, broadly trading sideways in a US$ 40-60 range until late last year, when prices broke out... Read More
Energy innovation continues, but regulatory change is proving truly disruptive
Today my energy blog, Watt-Logic is two years old! Another interesting year… Looking back at what I wrote a year ago proves what I’ve said before about making predictions in this market (or... Read More
A recent discovery strikes an interesting note
This time of year is full of music, with carol singers out in force and the ubiquitous Christmas “hits” playing on loop in every store, but a recent discovery has brought music to mind in a differ... Read More
SSE – npower merger: moving the industry chess pieces
A lot is written about the changing shape of the GB power market, with increasing decentralisation, and a shift away from large units of synchronous generation to more dispersed often intermittent ren... Read More
Further evidence that climate models overstate global warming
Yesterday scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Oxford together with University College London, announced that climate change is not as bad as previously thought due to modelling errors. In a... Read More
The writing is on the wall for coal generation
The UK broke new ground on Friday 21 April 2017 seeing the first continuous 24-hour period since the industrial revolution when coal made no contribution to the power sector. The country which led th... Read More
Building energy efficiency forecasts appear to be largely useless
Following on from my previous post on energy efficiency, I was very interested to read about a recent study by the University of Bath which shows a significant gap between the forecast energy efficien... Read More