Any doubt that increases in UK electricity prices are the result of energy and climate policies, rather than underlying wholesale energy costs, is firmly set aside by the recent announcement from Opus Energy that it must increase its prices to consumers by 7.5% even to those on Fixed Term contracts because of sharply rising “pass […]

Many, including the British Prime Minister Theresa May, believe that the United Kingdom should continue to participate in the European Union’s Internal Energy Market. Whilst superficially both attractive and reasonable, this would only be in British interests if that EU market were genuinely liberal. Unfortunately, there are clear signs that the Internal Energy Market is […]

Europe’s efforts to cut its reliance on Russian supplies of natural gas are being seen as a timely business opportunity for US LNG exporters feverishly trying to secure long-term contracts to finance terminal projects. Comments Monday to that effect by officials from Poland and Lithuania at trade group LNG Allies’ Transatlantic Energy Security Forum in […]

Donald Trump can talk about “beautiful clean coal”, but South Africa may be years ahead of the United States in achieving the dream.   Dr Nandi Malumbuzo (SA) and Dr Samson Bada (Nigeria) in the clean coal lab in Wits. Photo Geoff Hill Professor Rosemary Falcon heads the Sustainable Coal Research Group at the University […]

The anti-fossil-fuels campaign is neither realistic nor environmentally sound. Blocking pipelines and other energy infrastructure projects raises costs on American families while forcing them to rely on Vladimir Putin to heat their homes. A tanker arrived in Boston Harbor carrying natural gas that would keep residents’ homes warm for the rest of the winter. The […]

It’s amazing how fast we’ve come to take for granted that the United States is now a petroleum-exporting nation. The first crude exported in over 40 years left the Port of Corpus Christi for Italy on a small tanker on December 31, 2015. Exports have risen so fast that now America ships out more petroleum […]

The idea of coal, oil, and natural gas reserves becoming “stranded assets” from unanticipated or premature write-downs is bogus. The reality is that demand is so ever growing that the balance sheets of our fossil fuel companies get consumed in about 10 years. The International Energy Agency, adviser to the most advanced economies in the world (the 34 […]

Recent reports indicate that major repairs are required on 500 offshore wind turbines in United Kingdom waters, and nearly two hundred more at sites off the Danish and German coasts. Whether this is type failure or just normal wear and tear is as yet unclear, and is, according to Danish news reports, in dispute. One […]