Energy

The current UK policy fails to meet all three key energy priorities.

While “oil” production has bounced back from the lockdown slump, diesel production is still lagging below the 2018 peak

Given the extent to which we have electrified our way of life, this should terrify everyone...

The reason UK industrial electricity prices are the highest in the world is a simple combination of physics and neoliberal policy.

Without major changes to our way of life, net zero electricity rationing is inevitable.

After decades of de-industrialisation, Britain no longer has the capacity to build new energy infrastructure

Without oil the western economies couldn’t have condensed 150 years of economic growth into just two decades. Indeed, without the exponential growth in oil production such spectacular growth could never occur again.

Sunak embracing gas is evidence of a political class waking up to the impossibility of balancing energy cost, security, and environment.

“Tamping down on demand” is an interesting way of describing what amounts to the irreversible deindustrialisation of the continent...

Let us not forget that beyond hard-pressed bill-payers are thousands more who can no longer afford electricity at all