Extending carbon pricing would serve as a constant pressure on emissions. But it won’t be enough on its own.
It is surprising that the nuclear industry remains without a seat around the table at COP26. They deserve to be an integral part of the negotiation.
The Business Secretary needs to review the mesh of subsidies, regulations, penalty taxes and import arrangements that passes for an energy policy.
For all the focus elsewhere, the most important domestic department for the next two years will be the Department of Health.
A careful reading of Hayek and Adam Smith will confirm that neither was invariably opposed to state action.
The importance of having a reliable baseload of firm power remains essential to the energy mix.
The first piece in a mini-series on ConHome this week on Net Zero and climate change.
It won’t be sufficient to cover the costs just for the lowest income voters – most voters will need environmentally sustainable options to be heavily subsided.
It is about to embark on an ambitious plan for net zero carbon emissions when we can least afford it. There may be a more affordable option.
As the Government ushers us towards net zero, it had better be sure of the science. Unless it’s willing to risk a British equivalent of the Gilets Jaunes.
Electricity generation policy must refocus on dispatchable low-emissions plant that can to deliver a secure and competitive system.
Moving the legacy costs of renewable energy subsidies off electricity bills will make heat pumps up to £200 a year cheaper to run,
Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.
What we need is to promote a higher wage, higher productivity economy. Our economic targets should reflect those aims.
But heat pumps work best in energy efficient homes. Here lies another opportunity for everyone to insulate them.