Checking the arithmetic behind Britain's energy bet — and the political economy around it. Physics first, tribe never.
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The Week in Energy — 22 August 2026
The week Whitehall conceded the thing it’s legislating to abolish, and tried to answer adequacy in gigawatts.
Kept on board, rarely launched, never optional.
There is a trick to reading an energy document — “find the unit”. This week supp...
The Week in Energy — 15 August 2026
The bill is not the cost.
For years the argument about Britain’s energy policy has been an argument about a number: what it costs. This week the government gave its answer. It didn’t cut the cost; it rearranged where the cost appears. In s...
Doing your bit in the dark
WHEN I was a boy, I was told there would be flying cars. Tonight, we are being told to turn our washing machines off because the sun is going behind the moon. This is what rationing looks like.
Be clear about what is not the embarrassing p...
The Week in Energy — 8 August 2026
‘War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Rationing is flexibility.’ — George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (revised and updated by NESO)
FOR YEARS the working assumption of the electricity system was that supply follows dem...
Flying Blind
From today’s generating fleet to the one the Committee’s 2050 pathway describes, technology by technology.
ON 23 JUNE Britain’s grid came far closer to failing than most people realise, and on Kathryn Porter’s account published last week,...
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