The usual suspects are engaging in their usual determined attempts to miss the point this morning. This is the reaction to yesterday’s ministerial announcement that the government is going to try to speed up the development of a UK shale gas industry, things having pretty much ground to a halt in the planning process over […]

The Department of Housing Communities and Local Goverment is currently having an inquiry on the planning process as it relates to the unconventional oil and gas industry, and in particular whether the official guidance to planning officers needs to be updated. It’s pretty dull stuff, to be sure, but there are a few astonishing snippets in […]

In the absence of new subsidies, we could be looking at the beginning of the end for the wind industry in Europe. New academic research on whether to repower or extend the lifetime of an obsolescent wind farm in Europe reveals that without new subsidies for repowered sites, low cost lifetime extensions focused on maximising […]

EdF has reportedly paid a striking £500m for the as yet unbuilt 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe offshore wind farm near the Scottish coast of Fife. Why? EdF Renewables is the dedicated UK renewables development vehicle of EdF Energy. It currently has to its credit, according to its website, 598 MW of operational capacity, comprising […]

Efforts to decarbonise will kill millions in poor countries.   London 4 May 2018. A new report from the Global Warming Policy Foundation finds that climate and green energy policies promoted by development organisations will cause millions of preventable deaths in the developing world.    The report, by eminent epidemiologist Mikko Paunio, says that international bodies and NGOs are […]

For those who want to see what a real case of Russian collusion looks like, check out what has been happening in global oil markets for the past year and a half. In late 2016, Russia and Saudi Arabia conspired to cut supply and raise prices. With cooperation from the rest of OPEC, they’ve succeeded […]

Two years ago, the Ford Motor Company boasted about having been named Interbrand’s Best Global Green Brand and said it was committed to working to meet stricter fuel economy standards. Last week, after lobbying with the rest of the industry to strike down those standards, Ford announced that it would largely abandon the American passenger car market in favor […]

Decarbonizing the United Kingdom’s energy production comes with costs.  A rough estimate of its cost to the U.K. as a whole can be gained by multiplying the annual costs or the cumulative cost by the roughly 27.1 million households in the U.K.  That yields roughly £15.8 billion in the year 2020 alone and £292.68 billion cumulatively through […]