Recent Publications

• BREXIT and its implications for the British energy market
  Of all the contributions Britain has made over the four decades of membership, the creatio...
• Burn Out - The endgame for fossil fuels
  A summary of my new book now available in paper back. March 2018 by Yale University Press...
• Peak oil demand and long run oil prices by Dale and Fattouh: a critique
  The challenge of climate change has left the oil companies on the back foot. What do they ...

Recent Publications

• Building an Energy Union
  Presentation for Energy Infrastructures Towards the creation of a European Energy Union Co...
• Ukraine, Europe and Energy
  After a short pause, the borders of east and southeast Europe are again in flux, as they h...
• Europe’s Energy Future: Rejuvenation or decline?
  Slidepack for the FLAME 2014 conference May 22nd 2014.

Recent Publications

• The Carbon Crunch - Revised and Updated
  Hard hitting analysis of how and why we have failed to tackle climate change, and how we c...
• Climate Change and carbon pricing
  Presentation for The Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) United Nations Secre...
• Global Perspective - Energy and climate Energy and climate roadmap 2050.
  Opening seminar for Global perspective evnt on the 29th May 2013

Recent Publications

• What to do about the railways?
  Despite the sharp rise in demand and therefore revenue, it is widely agreed that the railw...
• Introduction to 'Air Transport and Infrastructure'
  In D. Helm and D. Holt (eds.), 'Air Transport and Infrastructure: The Challenges Ahead', p...
• What do to about the roads?
  Paper on the current state of our roads

Recent Publications

• The new broadband utility and the openreach debate
  The prime Minister has said that we should have, by right, access to fast broadband and it...
• The new broadband utility and the openreach debate
  The prime Minister has said that we should have, by right, access to fast broadband and it...
• Price setting in regulated utilities and the potential application to the BBC
  The determination of the BBC’s licence fee is the outcome of an opaque and non-transparent...

Recent Publications

• Investing in Future Utility Infrastructure
  Presentation for Infrastructure Investment Conference
• How long can interest rates remain low?
  We live in extraordinary times. Real interests are negative, have been negative for severa...
• British Infrastructure and the Gradual Return of the state
  The state of British infrastructure is the source of almost continuous study and criticism...

Recent Publications

• RIP RPI-X Regulation - OFWAT and OFGEM nail down the coffin
  RPI-X regulation has had a good run. It was a deceptively simple idea: fix the prices and ...
• Policy by lists – the Green Paper and the new industrial strategy
  Regulation grows. It is never reaches a stable equilibrium. There are always more things t...
• Regulatory Reform and The System Operator Model
  Regulation grows. It is never reaches a stable equilibrium. There are always more things t...

Recent Publications

• Natural Capital & Sustainable Economic Growth
  Presentation for University of Oxford, Plant Science department
• Waste Policy - tidying up the mess we are in
  Out-of-sight and out-of-mind could be the motto of waste policy over the last few decades....
• Natural Capital & Sustainable Growth
  Presentation for Natural Devon

Recent Publications

• Water Boarding
  The water industry is in play - with the regulators, and with the politicians. Labour pro...
• Water Boarding
  The water industry is in play - with the regulators, and with the politicians. Labour pro...
• The Future of Flood Management
  Presentation for Floodex Conference