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

• 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...
• 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...

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

• Green Recovery Plans
  Green Recovery Plans
• The Future of Natural Capital
  Presentation for WIG: The Future of Natural Capital
• BREXIT, trade and the environment – the highest standards rule
  Trade has become an economic battleground in the retreat from globalisation. The US has ma...

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...