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AI data centre power and glory - an update
My piece on AI and energy, entitled "The Power and the Glory", got a lot of great feedback. It also predated DeepSeek's big reveal. So here are a few…
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2024 in review - geopolitical drama, Cleaning Up relaunched, and more...
2024 has been a momentous year in politics, geopolitics, climate and clean energy. It has also been a huge year for Cleaning Up - and for me both…
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Slowdown, What Slowdown? The EV Revolution is Just Getting Started!
My guest this week on Cleaning Up was Dr. Andy Palmer CMG: godfather of the mass-market EV, piston-head turned restless pioneer of all things BEV. Man…
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The Utility Of The Future Is Here
This week sees the kick-off of Season 13 of Cleaning Up with Greg Jackson, Founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. It's a must-watch. Also, read on for…
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The Solar Revolution - Past, Present and Future
For this week's episode of Cleaning Up, I sat down with BloombergNEF's Jenny Chase. She's the best solar analyst in the world, and apparently it's all…
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Investing in Fusion - Fools Gold or Gold Mine?
More than 50 teams worldwide are racing to develop fusion power - international and national programs, huge engineering companies, and over $6 billion…
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Hinkley C - don't say I didn't warn you!
In 2016, I called for Hinkley C to be scrapped. Now its commissioning has been pushed back to the end of the decade and its costs have ballooned to as…
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Xlinks
When Simon Morrish first told me about his plan to build a cable from Morocco to the UK, I told him he was "bonkers".
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Dr Silvia Madeddu - Industrial Heat is Electrifying!
Last week’s Episode 103 of Cleaning Up with Dr.
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Simon Morrish - 650 Leagues Of HVDC Under The Sea
This week’s episode of Cleaning Up was with Simon Morrish, the visionary behind XLinks.
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BNEF: We Need To Talk About Nuclear Power (link)
Read the full BNEF piece here:
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Scenarios for a solar singularity
All the big energy forecasters assume that solar power must reach some sort of saturation point, and its meteoric growth must soon slow. What if they…
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