Ha! Excellent headline. No notes.

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Kind of wild that in the same year China installed 10x this amount. Puts US and European efforts in perspective. Nevertheless, encouraging to see the US is still adding lots of new clean capacity.

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BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively. All due online by 2029.

One of the most important statistical packages made in Econ in the last decade

Don’t forget to submit your paper by this Sunday!

I have now wasted many hours trying to get a revision submitted due to Editorial Manager's absurd latex compilation setup. Garbage service from a publication industry that offloads all the work onto authors and pockets some ridiculous profit margins. Hate that we are trapped in this bad equilibrium.

Can confirm I’ve had the experience of saying I live in London and getting a concerned/worried response, almost certainly due to all the online nonsense out there. Don’t believe the lies!

Editorial Manager is the absolute worst. That is all.

Best workshop, best keynote and best time to visit London! Submit your paper/abstract. Deadline Feb 1.

This was posted by @mambarlife.bsky.social in the Other Place and it’s too good not to share it.

Working with energy units for gas is the worst. It's like they really spent some time thinking "but how else could we make it confusing..." (just wasted a bunch of time relearning this after seeing "mcf" in some code and worrying I had done a unit conversion wrong)

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When choosing a company to manage vast quantities of sensitive UK healthcare data for the NHS I’m not sure “software that dominates” is the vibe I’d go for.

BBC More or Less doing what it does best. Junk stats beware!

I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

Some interesting commentary on the results of the latest UK offshore wind auction 🔌💡

Good news for the offshore windustry! Record breaking new offshore wind results arrived this morning, in the latest UK CfD auction. Eight new projects supported, two new floating sites, 8.4 GW altogether!

Chart of how offshore wind CfD prices have changed over time, now updated for the AR7 results released today public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Interesting piece on the brave new world that is now upon us.

Good. The last government abandoning the northern leg was an act of economic vandalism in a long line of terrible decisionmaking that has beset this project. I travel on the west coast mainline regularly and it has been in dire need of new capacity for what feels like most of my life.

Love this! Need more office swag that synchronises with the grid

Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year. One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵

For those interested in energy and environmental econ, here’s a good place to start if you’re looking for people to follow

Very excited to join one of the best environmental economics workshops out there.

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Spontaneous ride along the Kent coast to scope out taking a bunch of students on a trip to a wind farm. Obligatory end of trip fish n chips on the beach was top tier.

In this week's Energy Institute blog, Max Auffhammer's highly entertaining and also very serious take on redesigning electricity bills so customers can actually understand them. An important step in enabling demand flexibility. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/a...

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Kind of depressing how divorced a lot of this from the actual research process. Like producing a simulacrum of a paper is the same as "doing research".

"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this." (Me, stating the obvious) www.ft.com/content/2b60...

It's grid connection reform queue day in the UK! 🔌💡 NESO (the grid operator) has published the results of their efforts to unclog the process for connecting new power supply to the grid. Over 700GW of proposed projects have been slimmed down to prioritise 130GW by 2030 and a further 150GW by 2035.

Surprising precisely nobody, more CCS plans delayed/abandoned. This is a technology that is just forever overpromising and underdelivering.

AI-enabled NIMBYism has come to clean energy deployment. Virtually all the examples mentioned in this piece are wind, solar and transmission projects. 💡🔌

To be clear, this is a tariff on our own exports. Yes, it will raise money - tariffs do. The question is whether it will also cut exports from one of our core economic strengths- HE.

What If Utilities Just Made Less Money? A question that's right up there with "why do we regulate utilities like it's still 1920?"

#Nuclear energy's capacity to help Britain meet its net-zero targets makes it attractive. But do the high cost and complicated logistics of building new plants and the emergence of renewable alternatives, make it unviable? Shefali Khanna and @stephenjarvis.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social #COP30

Exactly! What is this entire policy for? It’s not like they have some huge manifesto mandate they are leaning on here. Who actually voted for this?

Great piece from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on the increasingly top-heavy nature of UK taxation. Valuable new context for the notion that Brits want Scandanavian style public services with US tax rates. All the more worrying that widely trailed broad-based rises in income tax have now been abandoned.

Literally one of the few things that seemed like it might happen and would be a good addition to the budget, ideally alongside some broader efforts to reform vehicle taxation. The courage of this government knows no bounds.

Good news! I had thought I'd read somewhere that heat pump subsidies might be on the chopping block but good to see that actually air-to-air is being brought into the scheme.

Unashamedly stoked for this 🔌💡

Really enjoyed this interview. Southgate always does come across as a decent, thoughtful guy, which aren't traits that immediately spring to mind when thinking about the upper echelons of the footballing world.

It appears we have reached the "let's put data centers in space" phase of the AI boom/bubble (delete as appropriate).

Excellent conference - 100% recommend!

New Energy Institute Blog Post: Spreading the Cap-and-Trade Wealth - @severinborenstein.bsky.social energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/spreading-the-cap-and-trade-wealth/ #climatechange #electricity #energyefficiency #naturalgas #solar