The Great Policy Reset
Everything in the UK world of energy hit a kind of slow-moving nightmare when the Department of Energy and Climate Change stopped replying to emails a few months ago, claiming they were officially...
View ArticleAndrea Leadsom : Energy Quadrilemma #1
The energy “trilemma” is the dilemma of three dimensions : how to decarbonise the energy system, whilst continuing to provide affordable energy to consumers, at a high security of supply. The unspoken...
View ArticleAndrea Leadsom : Energy Quadrilemma #2
Last week’s Energy Live News conference on 5th November 2015 was an opportunity to hear Andrea Leadsom, Minister of State for Energy at the UK Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change...
View ArticleDECCimation
Into the valley of career death rode the junior 200… As Adam Vaughan reported on 10th November 2015, the UK Government Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is to shed 200 of its 1,600 staff...
View ArticleCumbria Floods : Climate Defenceless
I fully expect the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, will be more than modicum concerned about public opinion as the full toll of damage to property, businesses, farmland and the loss of life in...
View ArticleFields of Diesel Generators
Recently, I had a very helpful telephone conversation with somebody I shall call Ben – because that’s his name, obviously, so there’s no point in trying to camoflage that fact. It was a very positive...
View ArticleNew Hands on DECC
So, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have a new top dog – Alex Chisholm – formerly the attack beast in charge of putting pressure on the electricity utility companies over their...
View ArticleBrexit or Remain ? Evolving Political Realities
I have been looking at some of the finer details of the new BP report – the annual “Statistical Review of World Energy” for 2016. It’s a bit confusing trying to compare it to the 2015 report, to try to...
View ArticleJumping off Mount Gideon
[Friends, I have suffered a little writer’s block, so I resolved to spark some creativity in myself by joining a little local writers group. The leader of the group suggested a title, I Googled the...
View ArticleClean Burn : Introduction and Objectives
From my studies, I conclude that humanity will continue to use gas energy fuels for a long time to come. In that case, we need to know how to burn it cleanly, so I am starting a new phase of research...
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