Jess isn’t the name of my cat but rather the UK government’s Joint Energy Security of Supply Working Group (JESS).
This organisation was set up in July 2001 by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM) to “to assess risks to the UK’s future gas and electricity […]
Newsnight, the BBC’s late night news programme mentioned peak oil last night (25/04/206). Almost a cross between news and current affairs the programme tends to tackle the issues of the day with more depth and analysis than a regular news broadcast. Asking questions rather than just presenting facts.
Last night covered the $75 oil story […]
It is often said that peak oil (and gas) will usher in a new coal era, coal to replace gas for electricity generation, coal to meet increased electricity demand as direct consumption of oil and gas shifts towards electricity and the possible revival of coal to gas and coal to liquid projects.
The justification for such […]
The title is not my own but rather the title of a news story published on the BBC News website this morning (Sun 16th Apr06).
The article reported on The Commons Environmental Audit Committee report about the UK energy gap and included this line:
“Its chairman, Conservative MP Tim Yeo, says ‘more gas fired power […]
Here I will briefly summarise the papers from the first day of the Royal Society’s recent conference.
Sir David King - Chief Scientific Advisor
Energy for a sustainable future
A very solid presentation on climate change, stressing that due to inertia of the global system further warming over the coming decades is inevitable. As a consequence millions […]
Spending as much time reading, writing and talking about peak oil and energy as many of us here do I think it’s sometimes easy to forget just how small a minority we actually are.
10th and 11th this month I was at the Royal Society in London for their conference Energy… for the future. I […]
Those are the words of Christophe de Margerie, head of exploration for Total and heir presumptive to the leadership of the French energy multinational as reported by The Times newspaper today (8th April 06): World ‘cannot meet oil demand’. In the interview de Margerie addressed the IEA’s World Energy Outlook which predicts world […]