Wider Interest
Another new year brings another look back at the past 12 months and a time to consider what the energy market outlook might be for 2020. This time last year, my predictions for the top five energy themes for 2019 were: The retail price [...]
A personal project has kept me away from my blog recently, but I wanted to end the year with a wrap-up of some interesting low-carbon technologies that are enjoying a revival. Scientists have been studying a rare phenomenon in the hope of developing new [...]
Last week I had the pleasure of being one of the keynote speakers at the Institute of Directors Guernsey Branch annual convention, speaking about energy policy options for the Bailiwick in the context of climate ambitions. The day before, the States had published a [...]
On Friday evening, there was a widespread power blackout across many parts of the UK, with transport systems in particular being affected. Supplies were restored within an hour although the transport problems took far longer to resolve, with the knock-on effects of delayed trains [...]
Today my energy blog, Watt-Logic is three years old! Energy markets are never dull… The big news over the past year has of course been Brexit, however as far as energy has been concerned, it has been more of a side-show, with the main [...]
According to The Week, the US uses an average of 6.63 billion kWh of electricity each year on Christmas lights - more than the entire annual consumption of El Salvador (5.35 billion kWh) and Ethiopia (5.30 billion kWh), and spends US$ 199-573 per household [...]
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 from their highs and a divergence is [...]
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, and passed US$70 for the first time in [...]
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 otherwise). Writing just a couple of weeks before the General Election, [...]
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 different way... The music of the spheres – [...]