Net Zero

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

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: 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

Politics: a Pyrrhic victory

April 13, 2025 3:04 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Much as I would like to condemn net-zero and electricity costs for the demise of steelmaking in Scunthorpe, I am... View Article

Politics: a state of delusion

April 12, 2025 2:53 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

During today, MPs will be processing emergency legislation in parliament, ostensibly to allow ministers to take control of British Steel’s... View Article

Net-zero: the dustbin of history

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

Much has been made of the folly of allowing the manufacturers of a strategic product such as steel to be... 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

Politics: time-thief

March 19, 2025 2:59 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Yesterday – apart from the minor detail of Liz Kendall announcing her welfare overhaul in the Commons – was to... View Article

Net-zero: impotence writ large

February 8, 2025 3:33 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There are certain things which are so mad that they should never be considered to be part of any public... 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

Net zero: burying the news

December 26, 2024 3:07 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Sneaked out on Christmas Eve, in a way that could only ensure minimum publicity, was a government press release heralding... 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

Net zero: reality bites

November 27, 2024 2:54 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite the hubris of the increasingly mad Ed Miliband, things are not going his way and, from now on they... View Article

Climate change: CoP out?

November 25, 2024 2:28 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I tried to imagine something I would less like to write about than the just completed CoP summit in Baku,... View Article