Recent Publications

• Burn Out - The endgame for fossil fuels
  A summary of my new book published in March 2017 by Yale University Press.
• Endgame for Fossil Fuels
  Presentation for Green Finance Summit 2017
• Retail Prices & Regulation
  Video presentation for South East Europe Commision, REKK Foundation

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

• 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...
• Do we need any more periodic reviews?
  As the regulators and the utilities gear themselves up for the next round of periodic revi...

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

• The Future of Flood Management
  Presentation for Floodex Conference
• Flood defence: time for a radical rethink
  Flooding crises tend to follow an established pattern. First, there is immediate help and ...
• Water Catchment management, abstraction and flooding: the case for a catchment system operator and coordinated competition
  Since 2010 there have been a number of piecemeal reforms and developments across the water...