Checking the arithmetic behind Britain's energy bet — and the political economy around it. Physics first, tribe never.
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Net zero added £140.3bn to our electricity bills. Nobody official counts it.
TODAY I AM starting a series of reports called Affordable Energy. Each takes one question about Britain’s energy and answers it with open numbers.
The first, Reliable Britain, asks a plain question. What has the drive to net zero added to...
The Week in Energy — 24 October 2026
Seven papers on energy bills, six from this week. Most of what they offer changes the addressee, not the cost.
The tax-funded discount. Since April the Treasury has paid three-quarters of households’ share of the Renewables Obligation, a r...
Electricity is dear because of gas, we’re told. That can be tested.
I WROTE MY book The Energy Trap from the conviction that ordinary citizens are not being given the full picture on our energy transition.
The next stage of that work is a series of reports investigating in more detail the gap between the o...
The Week in Energy — 17 October 2026
Twice in four days Britain’s grid operator asked France for emergency power, then paid nearly £48 million in a day because its wires couldn’t carry the power. The two charges that pay for the wires, and for working round them, are set to ju...
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ON TIMES RADIO on 3 October, Lord Turner, who co-chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, said this of my book: ‘I have now ordered the book to see how he sets it out ... But I think it is completely wrong.’ He named the evidence: ‘read hi...
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I'm a former senior oil and gas operations manager with 35 years of international experience, and academic qualifications in electrical engineering and power systems, petroleum engineering, and energy economics.
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