This week I focus on those august documents that are Energy Outlook reports. Two of the best known are the IEA report and the BP report. Most leading environmental experts find it hard to control their exasperation at way that these so consistently underestimate the impact of renewables. It is hard to ignore the suspicion … Read More
I know, I know, it’s not Thursday. My promise to deliver Titbits on a Thursday lasted all of one week. I failed to look at my diary when making the promise, but we shall be back on track next Thursday! One strangely encouraging piece of news: the appointment of WWF’s Tony Jupiter as the new … Read More
Those of you who read this only for the EV of the Week, and I know there are a few, may be disappointed by this weeks ‘bit consisting of a load of double decker busses. Sorry for that, but I think deployment of electric busses is a big game changer in the fight to decarbonise. … Read More
I don’t tamper often with the format for Titbits, but have decided, at least for a while, to follow advice from a few sources suggesting that it might be preferable to put out the weekly some time other than Friday evening. I am therefore going to try running it on a Thursday, with an objective … Read More
Welcome to 2019, for us in the UK a year of extraordinary uncertainty. A couple of things to celebrate nonetheless: British power stations generated less energy last year than any year since 1994, when there were 8 million less people living here. That is a great validation of the energy transition. Secondly, this is, according … Read More
Hitachi walking away from their two nuclear projects would constitute a major crisis in normal circumstances, but now it just joins a queue. The optimist in me hopes that this might lead to a fundamental reappraisal of UK energy policy. Nuclear is too expensive, fracking is no answer, gas works as a transition technology, but … Read More
