Last week, the UK Government published wo more than 2,800 pages of documents of plans for the enhancement of energy security and net zero, in what was originally touted as Government's 'green day'. But it was more akin to a…
Today Chris Skidmore MP published his response to the Review of Net zero. Announced back in September under the Truss administration, the independent Review was initially established to “ensure that delivering the net zero target does not place undue burdens…
We live in an age of crises. Be that the energy crisis, the looming climate crisis, the fertiliser crisis, the food security crisis, and the repeated CO2 crises- it is evident that in the UK at least, we are ever…
Last week, the Government released its British Energy Security Strategy, laying out its plans to increase the domestic production of energy in response to instability of the global energy market (e.g. Ukraine War). The Strategy was seen by many…
In a crisis like the one we are living through, we need to remind ourselves of platitudes, that crises can provide opportunities. Although this is hard to consider when faced with the great challenges that have arisen, history is ripe…
On 9th August the lights went out for approximately 1.1 million electricity customers. Electricity failed, and although the power outage was connected to a lightening strike, it was just one of many and represents an apparently rare and unexpected event.…
The Department for Transport is undertaking a review of transport energy strategy – you may recall my blog from May where I set out the broad ambitions of this project. Since then things have progressed and with the Renewable Transport…
DfT are undertaking a top level review of Transport Energy strategy for 2030 and 2050. The project is looking to align work undertaken and situate it in its broader context. Completed projects that will inform the strategy include: LowCVP Roadmaps,…
Green gas will be cooking your giblets this Christmas and for many festive seasons to come. Thanks to rapid growth this year, with a quadrupling of biomethane-to-grid plant numbers from 10 to 40, more households are cooking with home-grown green…
The £1.15 billion allocation for the RHI budget by 2021, announced during the Chancellor’s Spending Review statement last week, could support the construction of an additional 140 biomethane plants – a fourfold increase on current numbers and with the combined potential…
