Yesterday’s Financial Times contained an article about slowing demand for diesel, the “lifeblood of the industrial economy”. According to the FT, the “warning signs” and “investor fears” indicate a “looming recession” in the US. For all its professed sympathy for renewable energy and decarbonisation, the FT can’t help thinking that a healthy economy is one…

On Tuesday, faced with a combination of cold weather, high demand, uncertainty over electricity imports and low renewables output, National Grid resorted to coal generation for the first time this winter. The 60-year-old West Burton A power station was fired up. From the perspective of those people antipathetic to renewable energy, it was evidence that…