John’s posts
We need some clarity from industry leaders and government on the future role of hydrogen as an energy vector. We have a clear plan to expand the capacity for renewable generation well beyond our direct electricity demand, allowing for substantial generation of green hydrogen. This will undoubtedly be the main method we will use for …
I feel a little churlish bringing this up, as I have to acknowledge that huge progress has been made in establishing robust and reliable metrics for Carbon emissions over the last few years. The work done by the TCFD team is particularly noteworthy, not just for cutting through the usual obfuscation and excuses to define …
Imagine that you are the government and you have identified that there is an urgent need to reduce the national Carbon emissions. So, you set about designing incentives to motivate investment. Does it then make sense after setting up your incentive scheme to introduce taxation on these investments that stops take up? Obviously not, and …
The concept of a smart meter that can talk to the supplier and to appliances to react to time-of-use energy parameters sounds quite straight forward. But there is a major problem in adopting more advanced metering technology which is the incumbent vested interest of the suppliers. This resulted in the mess that was SMETS1, which …
We have a problem: for each effective kWh of heat electricity costs 7.6p and gas 4.7p but the gas emits 193g CO2 compared with 82g from the electricity. Domestic electricity costs have risen in real terms – about 20% in the last decade but gas is back at 2010 costs and consumption has fallen by …
