Energy

Energy – a season of ill-will

December 24, 2025 3:29 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Although we’ve not yet had any seriously cold weather, the onset of winter brings on the dampness and seasonal chills,... View Article

Energy: an end to gaslighting?

November 28, 2025 3:36 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

You don’t need to be a genius to work out that 2035 is ten years away. But, in political terms... View Article

Energy: lies exposed

October 16, 2025 2:58 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It won’t be the first time that I have complained about the difficulty in entertaining any sort of a debate... View Article

Energy: a third rate power

August 31, 2025 2:23 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The Badenough, it seems, is about to unveil a pledge to extract as much oil and gas from the North... View Article

Net zero: unrealised fragility

July 1, 2025 4:00 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In passing, I can’t help but note the Guardian applauding the passage of the pride parade in Budapest as a... View Article

Energy: Harmonics

May 11, 2025 2:39 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It says a great deal about the state of British foreign policy that it takes US president Donald Trump to... View Article

Energy: intensely political

May 1, 2025 3:27 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Before we get sucked into the vortex of today’s election results, I thought I’d stay with the Spanish (or Iberian)... View Article

Energy: it wasn’t, but if it was, it wasn’t

April 30, 2025 2:37 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I missed a trick yesterday, failing to spot the iPaper front-page headline, which boldly proclaimed: “Spain and Portugal thrown into... View Article

Energy: predictable and predicted

April 29, 2025 2:41 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Watching the reports come in of the blackouts in Spain, Portugal and parts of France has been an interesting experience,... View Article

Energy: Heathrow chaos

March 22, 2025 2:37 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I think it was Florence Nightingale who coined the admonishment which has been absorbed into the ethical framework of nursing,... View Article

Net zero: fantasy power

December 27, 2024 2:48 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

In the unlikely event that electric cars (ZEVs) become more than a niche form of transport for the well-off, there... View Article

Energy: micturating in the wind

December 14, 2024 3:01 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

As the Guardian proclaimed: “Ed Miliband pledges ‘most ambitious reforms to UK energy system in generations’”, in its online edition... View Article

Energy: Minister of lies

November 6, 2024 3:44 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Ed Miliband, energy and net-zero secretary, is a liar. In fact, he’s a multiple liar. With most eyes focused on... View Article

Energy: villain of the piece

October 16, 2024 4:02 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It may be only a impression, but I sense that the likes of the Telegraph are more favourably disposed to... View Article

Energy: winter outlook

October 8, 2024 3:44 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Every year, about this time, the National Energy System Operator (Neso) publishes its “early view” outlook for the coming winter,... View Article

Energy: a greater threat than Putin

July 14, 2024 3:10 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

After 20 years of writing on energy issues – often as a lonely voice in a complex field where there... View Article