The Institute of Economic Affairs is a right-wing think tank (for this piece, the IEA, but elsewhere in my blog, not to be confused with the International Energy Agency, also the IEA, which does really important work). Under new leadership from Lord Frost, Boris Johnson's Minister for Brexit, the IEA is following in the tracks … Continue reading The Institute for Economic Affairs: A Sock Puppet for Fossil Fuel Interests

The Leader of the Opposition, Kemi Badenoch, has launched a new campaign in an attempt to seize control of the political narrative about energy security. In a film on the Conservative Party YouTube channel Mrs Badenoch says: “its time for us to drill our own oil and gas in the north sea so I’m calling … Continue reading Let’s Get Britain Drilling

The Economist reported recently that “Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral”. Solar power is now so cheap that it is breaking the model used to regulate the supply of energy in many nations. Pakistan, the Economist reports, “has sky-high energy prices, a legacy of expensive contracts to pay for capacity … Continue reading Net Genius Zero