Why we may be heading for a Tory 'no deal' General Election
And how the only chance of stopping a Tory 'no dealer' winning that election is for Labour to declare its full, unqualified, support for another referendum on UK EU membershipBarring some miracle and...
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Academics tell Labour that their renewable energy plans don't leave any room...
Published below is a memorandum from the 'Red Lion Group' of 12 academics, to the Labour Party Shadow Energy Secretary, which sets out how Labour's plans for renewable energy do not leave any room for...
View ArticleLabour and energy nationalisation. Why power should be given to local...
Labour’s proposals to take the national and regional energy grid back into public ownership may give a boost to workers’ interests over shareholder profits, but the way the proposals are set out...
View ArticleOffshore wind: the power source that could blow all other power sources away...
As offshore wind technology fully blooms as its own distinct mass industrial technology producing power at low prices, and as the prospect of floating wind turbines comes closer, the potential for the...
View ArticleNow EDF want us to pay for nuclear build cost overruns - tens of £billions...
EDF is angling to get the UK Government to commit to pay what could be tens of billions of pounds for cost overruns on the proposed Sizewell C nuclear power project. This is part of the so-called...
View ArticleZero carbon by 2050? Make it 30 by 30!
BY ANDREW WARRENThis month the UK formally becomes the first G7 nation to adopt as a legally binding commitment that we shall be living in a net zero carbon economy in 30 years’ time.It is a clear and...
View ArticleA layman's guide to the 'Regulated Asset Base' that will fund Sizewell C...
The Government's proposed new 'Regulated Asset Base' (RAB) means of funding nuclear has just been published, and it is living as far down to its expectations as could be expected. I've ploughed through...
View ArticleThe bonkers politics (never mind economics) of a no deal Brexit
Much attention has been focussed so far on the extent to which the UK will suffer economically from a no-deal Brexit, but regardless of this to me the most worrysome aspects of this scenario are the...
View ArticleWhy Greens need a Progressive Alliance not a Lib-Dem-Green Alliance
As the UK faces the worst political crisis since WW2, with the political and economic dangers of a no-deal Brexit, the last thing pro-EU parties need to do is to actively split the forces trying to...
View ArticleGovernment in cynical ploy to boost northern election hopes with fanciful smr...
In what must count as one of the most cynical election ploys on record the UK Government has attempted to link a faltering and unlikely 'small modular reactor' (SMR) nuclear programme with target seats...
View ArticleNo it wasn't the wind turbines that caused the blackout but batteries are...
In the aftermath of last Friday's blackout the usual suspects are blaming wind turbines', but that's not what the electricity market nerds are saying. They are pointing to the fact that big power...
View ArticleThe real reason why the Government abandoned their plan to cut university...
The story emerging that the Government has abandoned its intentions to cut student fees (to £7500 a year...
View ArticleHow renewable energy can provide its own reserve power through hydrogen
A regular complaint about variable sources of renewable energy is that they need so-called 'back-up' when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow, but this problem can disappear if fuel cells...
View ArticleIs Hinkley C going the same way as the French and Finnish EPR disasters??
As EDF announces major cost overruns and delays after having only recently started major construction works for Hinkley C, it seems that this project is heading for the same sort of financial disasters...
View ArticleHow the Fixed Term Parliament Act has destroyed our constitution
The coalition between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives tore a gaping hole in the British constitution that was not understood at the time but through which we are now falling headlong. It...
View ArticleHow ammonia beats batteries to supply long term firm power from renewables
Not many people know this - yet - but ammonia is looking like being the best means by which wind and solar power can provide 'firm' power - that is ensure continuous supply of energy demand from...
View ArticleThe secret massive losses EDF is suffering in building Hinkley C
EDF faces massive financial losses as they continue to fund the building of Hinkley C. This is because they are paying for the power station from their balance sheet rather than use much cheaper UK...
View ArticleWhy the UK Government may be encouraging greenwash in its announcement about...
The Government's announcement that from 2025 gas boilers will have to be 'hydrogen ready' could presage the start of one of the greatest pieces of greenwash that have been committed in the UK. It seems...
View ArticleWhy EDF's argument that they cut costs with early start to Sizewell C is...
As reported in 'The Times' EDF is now pressing the Government for an early decision to fund Sizewell C nuclear power plant through what is effectively a blank cheque financial model. EDF say they want...
View ArticleSolar pv cost plunge presages surge in UK subsidy free solar projects
All over Europe there are reports of a plunge in the prices of solar pv projects, and in the UK a leading solar analyst has predicted that over 1 GW of solar pv will be deployed in the UK in 2020.Solar...
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