Recent Publications

• EU climate and energy policy: how to achieve net zero much more efficiently
  The EU has been developing its energy and climate policies since 1990, and over time the c...
• 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 ...

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

• Environmental taxation: environmental taxation and the role of carbon pricing mechanisms
  Chartered Tax Advisers’ Annual Address 2021
• The climate and ecological emergency: beyond declarations, what is the plan?
  Panel discussion on what the ‘no regrets plan’ set out in my book Net Zero: How We Stop Ca...
• Net zero - presentation to Irish Forum on Natural Capital/Trinity College Dublin
  Presentation to Irish Forum on Natural Capital/Trinity College Dublin

Recent Publications

• 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...
• What to do about the railways?
  Despite the sharp rise in demand and therefore revenue, it is widely agreed that the railw...

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

• 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...
• The Systems Regulation Model
  There is widespread dissatisfaction with many of the privatised utilities. In the rail sec...

Recent Publications

• COP26 – too much hype, too little substance
  However successful COP26 is claimed to be, in this paper Dieter Helm looks beyond the hype...
• Valuing carbon offsets
  To achieve net zero, carbon sequestration needs to be taken seriously, alongside reducing ...
• Bespoke carbon taxes on food
  Are carbon taxes on beef and dairy the answer to emissions from the UK agricultural sector...

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...