Wider Interest
Today I am (finally) launching Watt-Logic Training, a new programme of online energy training courses. It has been a longer journey than I hoped – the IT was much more complicated than I thought it would be – but I persevered, and am proud [...]
While working on my new training offering, I have been reading about the very earliest days of electricity and reflecting on how some of the early trends of local electricity markets and de-centralisation are experiencing a renaissance. The 19th century saw a great many [...]
Today is the 5th anniversary of my blog, and, in common with may of my readers, the past year has presented significant and unexpected challenges. And in common with a great many people, I suffered health problems last year for which I was unable [...]
Today Citizens Advice has published a report, Home Truths, into consumer experiences with home heating approaches including low carbon technologies and new insulation. The report draws on the calls made over the past three years to its Consumer Service from people who needed help [...]
Looking back over the year, I would normally write about the interesting developments in the energy markets, and what might be expected in the coming year (and indeed, I will be writing something along those lines in the next few days). But when thinking [...]
2020 has been a strange, horrible year, but one in which many of us have explored new ways of digital working. In that spirit, here is my slightly different Christmas blog (with thanks to my family for their artistic input). I hope you like [...]
Today is the 4th anniversary of my blog, and it is usual at such times to comment on unexpected market changes. Indeed over the past 4 years there have been some genuinely surprising developments in the British energy market…the introduction of a price cap [...]
Access to finance is important to businesses at any time, and more so in these times of unprecedented disruption. One area that has been attracting increasing levels of interest in recent years is the area of green finance, where issuers raise money in the [...]
Last week I participated in a webinar hosted by Energy Live News on how the covid-19 on users, brokers and suppliers, which covered some interesting points not mentioned in my previous post on the subject. Market liquidity on the prompt is largely unchanged Gas [...]
As we all enter the second week of the covid-19 lockdown, what is the impact of the crisis on the gas and electricity sectors?Retail markets: changing usage patterns and an increase in consumer vulnerabilityMore consumers are now vulnerableOne of the more urgent aspects of the [...]