On Thursday 29th December I went for a drive. I drove from Monmonth to North Somercotes following the route below. When I departed at 10:40am it was -4C, by noon near Birmingham it was -1C, just before Grimsby at around 3pm it was -6C and by 4pm in North Somercotes it was […]
On Wednesday 23rd I attended the Oil Supply Summit at the Palace of Westminster chaired by John Hemming MP. The meeting was attended by representatives from the Chemical Industries Association (CIA), National Farmers Union (NFU), Energy Institute (EI), Ofgem, New Energy Foundation (NEF) and Powerswitch with the aim to review the fossil fuel situation […]
Peak oil may be upon us but I fear the primary challenge for the UK isn’t oil but rather electricity. With rapid decommission of the aging nuclear fleet and falling extraction rates of indigenous natural gas and coal our three main sources of electricity accounting for some 95% of our electricity supply are in […]
What happens when commodities become scarce? The price increases. We have already seen highly publicised domestic gas and electricity price rises this year. Domestic heating oil has also increased dramatically though this price rise hasn’t had anywhere near the same media attention.
These prices rises were highlighted on the 29th Sept ’05 in […]
Two interesting reports have been published recently, Energy Trends from the DTI updated with 2005 Quarter 2 data and Winter Outlook Report 2005/06 from Ofgem. These two reports contain a wealth of data on the UK energy market past, present and looking forward to the winter. However I am less impressed with the […]
Two interesting reports have been published recently, Energy Trends from the DTI updated with 2005 Quarter 2 data and Winter Outlook Report 2005/06 from Ofgem. These two reports contain a wealth of data on the UK energy market past, present and looking forward to the winter. However I am less impressed with the […]
One of the common complaints levelled against the deployment of renewable energy like wind and solar on the national grid is that of intermittency. What good is a source of energy if you can’t rely on it to be there when you need it? Intermittency is managed today by ensuring that intermittent sources […]
I would like to take a moment to talk about the UK and our gas supplies for the coming winter 2005/06. The UK could experience a shortfall in gas supplies this winter due primarily to the rapidly declining extraction rate from indigenous reserves in the North Sea and the country’s gas infrastructure which having […]
Whilst in Dublin at the Feasta Conference I was able to keep up with news over the Internet. The BBC News front page had a three interesting stories on Friday 24th June 2005.
Firstly Oil price hits $60 for second day which reported on the second consecutive day of >$60 oil. The reasons were […]