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NESO cutting exports during a low frequency event may come back to bite us in winter

Maintaining grid stability in a wind and solar world

Swings and roundabouts: the retail energy market consolidates again

Physics versus ideology – ten years of energy policy confusion

Green vs Baseload: the most suitable energy for a developing country?

Energy, economics and the cost of denial

The GB capacity market is broken

The truth about the energy transition and the need for affordable secure energy with exploration & production to fill the gap

Scotland’s looming energy crisis

OVO Energy is looking shaky – its failure would dwarf that of Bulb

Octopus and Kraken are swimming in murky waters

The sorry tale of new Drax OCGTs highlights growing capacity market irrationality

New report: Electrification – can the grid cope?

2025: the year energy security threats began to manifest

Offshore pipeline closure risk: the hidden threat to GB energy security

Three Wise Men, Zero Inertia

How do we keep the lights on with 12 GW net firm capacity at risk of retirement by 2030? Speech to the Institution of Power Engineers, 13 November 2025

Location, location, location: managing voltage in weak grids

Ghosts on the grid: why the phantom concept of vars risks our energy security

AC vc DC: who would win a modern Battle of the Currents?

ASPs for AR7 prove renewables are not cheap

Nuclear regulation: pragmatism not paralysis

Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 2: faulty PV inverter crashed the grid

Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 1: the theory

North Hyde substation fire: report reveals poor maintenance culture

Should NESO be allowed to lower its minimum inertia requirement?

Introducing my YouTube channel

High wind and forecasting errors cause havoc on the GB grid

New report: The true affordability of net zero