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Fear of death
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…
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Peak lopping
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…