I'm thrilled to speak at Solar & Storage Live UK 2024! Join me at 12:50pm on Thursday 26th Sept in the Keynotes Stage where I will be speaking on Integrating Renewables and Hydrogen in the Energy Transition. Some of the biggest costs and risks of large-scale...

New Zealand is experiencing black-outs due to the poor management of its electricity system – and the situation is still deteriorating. But their problems are like the Balkan black-outs of 19th June 2024, not very different from those of British, European and North American grids, which (together with solutions) I have been flagging for almost a decade. Headings: Short-duration contracts; Electricity grids are about more than electrical energy; Short lead time contracts; Salami-sliced contracts; Short-term thinking; Governments, grids and regulators are in denial.

Probing deeply into businesses, strategies, processes, products, services and systems enables innovation at every level, transforming businesses.

A major railway equipment overhaul company asked me to make their bogie overhaul process more efficient. However, I discovered two important matters at the core of their operation which needed addressing first. They were unprepared for process changes that would have...

Global renewable energy installations may be increasing, but a very large proportion of that is in the near and far East, especially China and India. In the West, progress seems to be stalling for both economic and political reasons, because we haven't built the right...

It never ceases to amaze me how many billions are thrown at funding technologies and innovation that, of their nature, cannot succeed. They may be partial solutions, or too expensive, or only representing part of the cost profile, or their true addressable market is...

ENTSO-E published its roadmap for 2023-5 on 15th Feb 2024. This has good and bad points. For one thing, a 3-year horizon, especially when published one-third of the way through, is not strategic; it’s short-term objectives. But those objectives are mostly good....

The British government has taken the excellent step of realising that sufficient Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) won’t be built unless appropriate contracts and/or support is offered. They are consulting on a (cap and) floor regime, which would do the job well,...

Many activists see petro-states and petrochemical companies as being solely part of the problem. They have been, but need to be allowed to change. The challenge is so great and global that the Energy Transition to Net Zero won't happen without such countries...

COP28 ended with a communiqué which included, for the first timein the COP process, the phasing out of unabated hydrocarbons.Many have spoken against its lack of enforceable commitments, but COP is about the art of the politically possible, not the ideal. For the...