Chris B’s Thoughts
Chris BondChris Bond is happily retired after working over forty years in Energy. His hobby is analysing real data – mainly from the UK, USA, and Europe – to assess whether reality supports 'net zero' ambitions. Spoiler alert: it mostly doesn’t.
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400 Days on the 'Renewable' GB Grid
This post is a follow-up to some posts last year which, between them, should provide you with all the context you might need: How’s it Going, Ed? through More Over-Abundant Wind to DESNZ to Include (some) Reality.
For this post I’ve downlo...
Partial Truths
Background
This post is again on aspects of Australia's National Energy Market (the NEM) and its progress with its ‘decarbonisation’ [aka deindustrialisation] journey. It follows this 01 February 2026 post on LinkedIn in response to a...
Exaggerating Progress on the NEM
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Background
Australia's National Energy Market (the NEM) operates the electricity grid across Eastern Australia. I’ve posted before on Australia’s developing electrical energy landscape, for example here, if you need backg...
The Sunniest Day Yet in Aus
Congratulations, Australia & the NEM!
A new Solar generation record
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California's Batteries and What They're Doing
Background
California is blessed with plentiful solar energy. Its main electrical grid’s Independent System Operator (CAISO) offers highly-fragmented views on its progress to ‘decarbonise’ CA electrical energy. This includes its burgeo...
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Chemical engineer, over 40 years in the Energy world (mainly oil, gas and petrochemical); dislike extremism; open to tolerant debate. For further info see my LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-bond-b1902423/
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