Equinor Cut Green Investment In Half
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Cunningham More bad news for the idiot Miliband: Norwegian energy giant Equinor is halving investment in renewable energy over the next two years while increasing oil and gas...
View ArticleUK gas policies could lead to increased emissions from imports
By Paul Homewood h/t Mike Higton From Energy Voice: Reduced North Sea investment as a result of UK government policy could lead to millions of tonnes of additional CO2 emissions from imports,...
View ArticleWhere Will Miliband Get His Offshore Wind Farms From?
By Paul Homewood https://www.neso.energy/publications/clean-power-2030 Yesterday I discussed the likelihood of Orsted pulling out of Hornsea 4, as part of their retrenchment. And with Vattenfall...
View ArticleBBC Verify Why Energy Bills Are Not Coming Down
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Cunningham https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkep1vx3mro Yet more disinformation from BBC Verify. The two activists, Poynting and Reuben, tie themselves in knots in...
View ArticleNew CCGT Plant At Eggborough Cancelled
By Paul Homewood Britain’s blackout prevention system has been dealt a blow after the billionaire known as the “Czech Sphinx” scaled back plans to build a new gas-fired power station in...
View ArticleNew Study Points To Hunga Tonga As Cause Of Global Temperature Spike
By Paul Homewood In January 2022, a massive underwater volcano called Hunga Tonga suddenly erupted and shot so much water into the upper atmosphere that levels in the stratosphere rose suddenly by...
View ArticleEd Miliband’s Battery Blitz
By Paul Homewood The Telegraph falls for the battery myth again! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/08/battery-powered-britain-race-prevent-net-zero-blackouts/ Amongst all of Ed...
View ArticleKEEPING THE LIGHTS ON IN 2030 – Modelling The Neso Clean Power 2030 Plan
By Paul Homewood The promise made on P19 of the Net Zero Strategy was that we will have electricity available “at the flick of a switch from abundant, cheap British renewables….” This promise has...
View ArticleAnother £2 Billion Hand Out To Drax
By Paul Homewood Ed Miliband has extended subsidies for Drax’s tree burners for another four years, to 2031. The report in the Telegraph is little more than a puff piece for Drax and DESNZ. In...
View ArticleMost countries miss UN deadline for new climate targets
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler From Reuters: BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a U.N. deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to...
View ArticlePAC Slam Miliband’s Carbon Capture Plans
By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler The Committee of Public Accounts has slammed Miliband’s decision to waste £22 billion on unproven carbon capture: While lessons learned from past failures in...
View ArticleExposing The Battery Backup Con
By Paul Homewood Paul Burgess always produces excellent videos. Here he debunks the battery storage myth:
View ArticleWhy Solar Power Does Not Work In Britain
By Paul Homewood Crazy Ed Miliband wants to cover the countryside with hundreds of industrial scale solar farms. Yesterday the combined 18 GW of solar capacity which we already have produced the...
View ArticleReform plan ‘major threat’ to renewables auction
By Paul Homewood London: 12 February 2025 Reform UK plans are ‘major threat’ to renewables auction Net Zero Watch says the Reform Party may have stopped the green bandwagon in its tracks. In a news...
View ArticleWhy Don’t The Met Office Tell The Truth About UK Storms?
By Paul Homewood Are storms getting worse in the UK? You would be excused for thinking they are, given the torrent of headlines year after year: . I have certainly seen several comments in the media...
View ArticleChina Still Building Coal Power Plants
By Paul Homewood China last year began construction on projects with the greatest combined coal power capacity since 2015, jeopardising the country’s goal to peak carbon emissions by 2030, according...
View ArticleGiant Gas Field Discovered Under Lincolnshire
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby The Telegraph is running a story about a giant gas field that has been discovered under Lincolnshire which could fuel the UK’s entire needs for a decade. The...
View ArticleClean Power 2030 Plan Will Cost £242 Billion
By Paul Homewood Sometimes simple is best! NESO have conveniently listed their estimates of the capital expenditure needed for Ed Miliband’s Clean Power 2030 mission:...
View ArticleBP set to scale back green investments
By Paul Homewood From the BBC: Oil giant BP has said it will "fundamentally reset" its strategy as profits dropped sharply last year. It is widely expected to say later this month that it will scale...
View ArticleThe UK’s shaky ‘firm’ capacity
By Paul Homewood As many readers know, the GB electricity grid narrowly missed a blackout at the start of January. As was widely reported that the time, it looks as though we were down to our last...
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