Recent Publications

• The implications of the Russia–Ukraine conflict for energy security and climate change
  Tensions at the Ukraine border signal a wake-up call on two key issues: energy security an...
• The first net zero energy crisis – someone has to pay
  While cost of energy “crises” are nothing new, this latest crisis is different. This paper...
• The gas and electricity crisis - causes and consequences
  Why ministers and regulators could, and should, have foreseen the recent crisis in gas pri...

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

• COP26 – so was that it?
  Why COP26 is woefully inadequate to tackle the serious challenges of climate change.
• COP26, EU climate and energy policy - achieving and financing net zero
  Presentation to Flame Conference 2021
• COP26 – progress or just more blah, blah, blah?
  In advance of COP26, this paper looks at whether the summit can secure the necessary fundi...

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

• Is ESG Greenwash? Strengths and flaws of the COP26 finance initiative
  Introduction to the recent event run by the Global Returns Project, looking at the main ar...
• Climate Change and the Land: Challenges and Opportunities
  Keynote address: "The Business Of Climate Change", Annual Conference of the Scottish Land ...
• Keynote speech for the Worshipful Company of Farmers – annual Agricultural Lecture
  British Agriculture and the countryside and all those who own, work and enjoy will be very...

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...