Wider Interest
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 [...]
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 [...]