Recent Publications

• What are the implications of falling oil and gas prices? The Burn Out scenario.
  The most interesting question to ask about oil prices is: why have they taken so long to f...
• Power cuts and how to avoid them
  Whatever the approximate causes of the particular power cuts in mid-August this year, the ...
• Why aren’t electricity prices falling?
  The costs of renewables are falling, oil and gas prices have fallen back, and demand is so...

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

• 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...
• 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...

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

• 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...
• The Systems Regulation Model
  There is widespread dissatisfaction with many of the privatised utilities. In the rail sec...
• The Dividend Puzzle: what should utilities pay out?
  Why does Centrica yield 9.3% and SSE 8.4%, whilst DRAX yields 3.2%? Why do United Utilitie...

Recent Publications

• Is rewilding the answer?
  The last decades have been characterised by the continued destruction of the natural envir...
• Introduction to Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
  An Introduction to my new book - Green and Prosperous Land
• Natural Capital & Sustainable Economic Growth
  Presentation for University of Oxford, Plant Science department

Recent Publications

• 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...
• Who owns the water companies?
  Who owns the water companies? Are publicly quoted companies better than private equity and...
• Water Boarding
  The water industry is in play - with the regulators, and with the politicians. Labour pro...