Energy Policy
Eighteen months ago I wrote a blog entitled: Cakism in energy policy begins to bite which gained a lot of attention, in which I pointed out that policy-makers tend to want to have their cake and eat it when it comes to energy policy. [...]
This week my nuclear paper for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (“GWPF”) was published: Prospects for nuclear energy in the UK. The GWPF has taken a somewhat more negative interpretation of my report than I expected – yes, we face a real risk of [...]
The other evening, I was a panellist at an event bringing together energy companies, investors, bankers and other interested parties, to discuss the ways in which companies and investors communicate on issues relating to the energy transition. We discussed various questions around what investors [...]
Despite the recent high-profile approval of the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea, the picture for domestic oil and gas production remains bleak. The Conservative Government has recently spied an opportunity for re-election by deferring the costs of the energy transition at a [...]
The pervasive narratives about off-shore wind in recent years have been that costs are falling, and that wind power is cheap. But as I noted in a previous blog, and in my latest article for The Telegraph, things are not quite so rosy as [...]
In my latest article for The Telegraph, I discuss the latest US Department of Energy (“DoE”) de-carbonisation liftoff report covering eight industrial sectors: chemicals, refining, iron & steel, food & beverage processing, pulp & paper, cement, aluminium, and glass. The DoE is concerned that [...]
There appear to be some tentative signs of a US nuclear renaissance against a backdrop of growing grid instability as coal and gas power stations are pushed out of the market in favour of wind and solar. In my previous two blogs on the [...]
In my previous post I covered the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act and the way challenges with grid infrastructure will act as a brake on climate goals. In this post I will look at another major challenge being confronted by US grid operators: [...]
The USA has often been seen as at the forefront of the energy transition (or at least some states such as California have), although progress has been relatively slow - the first half of 2023 was the first time that wind and solar power [...]
Today the Telegraph published an opinion piece I wrote on electric cars, linked here. My sources for the article are listed at the bottom of this post. Of course, this is an opinion piece for a newspaper, so it’s written in a particular way [...]