Unregulated private financial markets are risky?

Shocking. If only we'd had some cautionary tale about the risks of unregulated financial markets.

I don't know, maybe around 2008 or something.

The carve up of the Middle East was driven by a colonial thirst for oil, and the region still bears the scars.

Britain and France didn't have domestic supplies in the way the USA and USSR did, so they looked to empire.

Much more on oil, energy and empire in the full episode!

Some accidental dystopia from the @theguardian.com 🙃

A very strong case for heat pumps made here! New episode of the pod out today.

A bit of reprieve for Orsted with the lifting of the stop work order on their Revolution Wind project.

It will undoubtedly go to higher courts but at least some parts of the US judiciary are still working.

One system to rule them all

Scrapping VAT on bills would be welcome, but isn't actually where I'd start (a thread) 🧵

Great breakdown of a 'consumer-first' energy system here! 👇

Do we need a 'demand revolution' in energy?

New podcast episode out where we talk about the need to smash the boundaries between heat, transport and power to truly put end-users at the centre of the system!

linktr.ee/energyrevolu...

Is Europe funding Putin's war?

Find out how companies are getting round the EU and UK sanctions on Russian Oil and Gas in our latest episode of the energy revolution podcast, with Isaac Levi of
@creacleanair.bsky.social.

linktr.ee/energyrevolu...

You cannot understand the state of UK energy today unless you understand it's history.

New episode launched today with Energy Historian and Director of Strategy at @octopus.energy, @arthurdowning.bsky.social!

linktr.ee/energyrevolu...

Has Trump doomed the world's largest offshore wind company?

New podcast episode explains how Orsted made a series of poor decisions that left them majorly exposed to the febrile politics of the US and MAGA.

Episode here: linktr.ee/energyrevolu...

(picture: Evan Vucci/AP)

The UK's "free" electricity market? Not quite.
Our host breaks down the reality: capacity markets, balancing mechanisms, contracts for difference - it's all government design underneath.
Are we making energy more expensive than it needs to be?
#EnergyPolicy #UKEnergy

Your energy bill is quietly becoming a tax by another name.

Our host and former government advisor explains why funding hydrogen and carbon capture through bills instead of budgets might be the wrong approach.

#EnergyPolicy #NetZero

Interesting to hear that it's economic competitiveness and industrial amibition driving so much interest in offshore wind around the world.

The first episode of our new podcast is out! We talk all things offshore wind and the future of the tech.

#renewables #wind #energy