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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.
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Climate Change
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A Roadmap to Achieving Net Zero: Flame October 2020
The centrality of carbon pricing, carbon border adjustments, net zero infrastructures and ... -
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
Introduction to my new book: Net Zero -
Climate change has not gone away - COP26, net zero and the coronavirus
The coronavirus virus has now taken centre stage, and climate change policy developments a...
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Regulation
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Transport
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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...
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Communications
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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...
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Infrastructure
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Investing in Future Utility Infrastructure
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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...
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Regulation
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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...
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Transport
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Natural Capital
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Environment
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Water
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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...
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Environment
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Recent Publications
The EU has been developing its energy and climate policies since 1990, and over time the c...
The most interesting question to ask about oil prices is: why have they taken so long to f...
Whatever the approximate causes of the particular power cuts in mid-August this year, the ...