Recent Publications

• How to pay for energy
  The longer-term consequences of the energy crisis require a permanent cost solution to be ...
• Avoiding the next energy crisis
  Keynote speech at the Policy Exchange
• Energy policy
  With energy bills set to increase from 1st April, and just 13 years for the electricity se...

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 coal question
  There is no route to decarbonisation without getting rid of coal, but coal remains a main ...
• The retreat from net zero
  As governments around the world rush to secure their energy supplies, this paper looks at ...
• LIFE AFTER COP26
  Presentation to Flame 2022

Recent Publications

• Making it Real: What does the zero emission revolution mean for you?
  Presentation for the Annual Conference of the Zemo Partnership (formerly the Low Carbon Ve...
• Decarbonising Transport
  Presentation for Transport Knowledge Hub National Workshop
• HS2: a conclusion in search of a rationale
  What is the question or questions to which HS2 is supposed to be an answer? As with a numb...

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

• Luck is not an energy policy – the cost of energy, the price cap and what to do about it
  With energy prices set to rise even further, a look at how the recommendations from the 20...
• There is no money
  As the full impacts of the lockdowns become painfully obvious, there is much talk of new s...
• Thirty years after water privatization—is the English model the envy of the world?
  The paper considers whether water privatization 30 years ago has delivered the promised su...

Recent Publications

• A just transition for Africa
  A discussion on how to ensure an energy transition that is inclusive and just for all Afri...
• The Herald: Climate Change Conversations - In conversation with Dieter Helm
  In the seventh episode of Climate Conversations, Marc Strathie, of The Herald, talks to Di...
• Agriculture after Brexit
  Brexit repatriates agriculture policy and subsidies after over 40 years of determination b...

Recent Publications

• ADA (Association of Drainage Authorities) conference
  Keynote presentation to the ADA 2021 conference
• Water - what is going on?
  With rising discontent with the water sector, what has gone wrong, and what can be done to...
• Floods, water company regulation and catchments: time for a fundamental rethink
  Floods happen. They always will. The question is how to limit their impact. Short of stopp...