Threads
Most weeks pick up an argument from an earlier one. These are the ones I keep returning to.
Net Zero & Policy
Targets, plans and the distance between a commitment and a delivery date.
Read the thread →Prices & Bills
What people actually pay, why, and whether the bill tells them anything true.
Read the thread →Heat & Homes
Heat pumps, insulation, hot water and the unglamorous business of heating and cooling buildings.
Read the thread →Markets & Regulation
Market design, rule changes, and the regulators who keep having to rewrite them.
Read the thread →Networks & Grid
Wires, connections, capacity and the growing complexity of running the system.
Read the thread →Consumers & Fairness
Vulnerable customers, social tariffs, trust, and who the energy system is for.
Read the thread →Flexibility & Demand
Demand response, time-of-use tariffs, and who captures the value of moving load.
Read the thread →Gas & Oil
Molecules: the system we still depend on, and the one we are supposed to be leaving.
Read the thread →Storage & Batteries
Batteries, duration, and what storage does to a market designed without it.
Read the thread →Elsewhere
What other countries are getting right, and what they are getting wrong.
Read the thread →AI & Complexity
What happens when the system outgrows the people who are supposed to operate it.
Read the thread →Nuclear
Fission, fusion, and the recurring argument about whether the price is worth paying.
Read the thread →Transport
Moving people and freight without the fuel that made it easy.
Read the thread →Renewables
Wind, solar, tidal — and the question of what "cheaper" actually means.
Read the thread →Smart Meters & Data
The measurement layer: meters, data, and the business cases built on them.
Read the thread →Water
The other utility, and how much it has in common with this one.
Read the thread →Industry & Culture
The people and institutions doing the work, and whether they are built for it.
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