Energy Crunch: no end to the storms
It took major storm damage and record floods to get energy prices off the front pages, but any ministers hoping for a brief respite on the turmoil over energy policy will be no doubt disappointed.
Energy Policy
Energy Crunch: Will Britain get on board with fracking?
Energy round-up including EU climate targets, UK fracking plans, and peak oil.
Fracking headlines
•Are you opposed to fracking? Then you might just be a terrorist •Eni Is Said to Abandon Polish Shale Aspirations •Oil and gas: A new frontier •Emails reveal UK helped shale gas industry manage fracking opposition •A challenge to the UK shale gas industry •The US shale boom is overhyped
Oil Security 2025 report – US remains vulnerable
US still dependent on the global oil market despite increased production.
End of the Road: How Australia’s auto industry ignored peak oil
This post will show how ignoring early peak oil warnings by Irish oil geologist Colin Campbell led to mis-investments in the Australian car industry.
UK international commitments on climate change are incompatible with the development of a national shale gas industry
Shale gas is indisputably a high-carbon energy source.
The Grand Challenge of the Energy Transition
How are we going to meet the challenge of functioning without fossil fuels?
Energy Crunch: Gas, wind and hot air
Energy round-up including peak oil, what next for UK shale gas, and wind power records.
Radical Emissions Planning: Kevin Anderson interview
Professor Kevin Anderson on science and politics; shale gas and climate; and climate, economics and finance.
Time to stop investing in carbon capture and storage
Government investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a large and expensive fossil-fuel subsidy with a low probability of eventual societal benefit.
These Charts Happened: 2013 In Climate And Energy Graphs
From advances in renewable power to the clear impacts of climate change, to denying the lot of it, climate and energy issues in 2013 are sometimes best expressed through graphs.
Photovoltaics: new policy challenges for Europe
Using a simple cost model this article shows that PV technologies can indeed supply electricity to the grid for less than 0.10 €/kWh in large swaths of the continent…