Exeter Energy Policy Group blog
Blogs from the University of Exeter Energy Policy Group
By Iain Soutar, Energy Policy Group, 12th November 2018 The concept of energy democracy is gaining ground across a range of actors engaged in research, advocacy and policy for sustainable energy. Incorporating a broader...
IAN SAVAGE Hononary University Fellow The summer of 2018 is going to be remembered as a good summer by many, or a bit of a killer by a few. By those of us...
By OSCAR FITCH-ROY Climate change is kind of a big deal. It will affect all life on the planet in some way. The precise details (on a scale of bad to unthinkable) depend on...
BRIDGET WOODMAN THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN THE CONVERSATION These are extraordinary times for energy policy in the UK. After years of resigned acceptance that the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station would...
DOMINIC MACLAINE The controversy about Brexit rages on, with both sides making increasingly extreme, often unsubstantiated and even unpleasant statements in an effort to capture headlines and attract undecided voters to their cause....
DOMINIC MACLAINE 2016 could be a massive year for the UK and energy policy. There is going to be a referendum on 23 June to see if we are to vote to stay in the...
DOMINIC MACLAINE According to the BBC website the price of Brent oil crude has fallen to under $28 a barrel before recovering to trade at $28.36. As a result of the falling price of...
Dominic Maclaine The output of nuclear power is ‘too cheap to meter’. This is a quote often attributed to the Central Electricity Board’s Walter Marshall but it was actually the US’s Lewis Strauss of...
