Archive - Energy Revolutions by David Toke

Why new nuclear power is a bad way to balance solar and wind

In the UK it has almost become an accepted truth in the media that new nuclear power is needed because there is no other practical or cheaper way to…

Jul 8 •

Why have UK energy prices been so high? Privatisation and liberalisation is largely to blame

What is the standard answer as to why the UK suffered so much of a gas and electricity price shock in 2022 and thereafter?

Jul 2 •

June 2025

After decades of exploiting consumers, oil companies abandon renewables

The sad fact is that the way the oil companies make their money means that they can make much more profit out of consumers by oil and gas drilling…

Jun 19 •

Farage and Reform risk ruining Port Talbot and Wales

Reform Party will put up to 10,000 energy jobs at risk at Wales

Jun 10 •

Some data on how Trump is helping China by opposing green energy

Trumps' attacks on green energy are actively helping China overtake the USA

Jun 7 •

May 2025

Two stories: Denmark's soaring renewable success and global nuclear construction disaster

Denmark will soon achieve 100% electricity from wind and solar; but across the world nuclear power construction cost overruns soar

May 21 •

How Miliband can make renewables cheaper - but there is really no alternative to renewables

giving longer term contracts to renewable energy developers will make solar and wind schemes even cheaper

May 8 •

April 2025

How falling battery prices and renewables will slash electricity bills

As I explain later in this post, UK electricity is currently expensive primarily because gas-fired stations are setting high prices.

Apr 28 •

Renewables provided over 90 per cent of the world's increase in generation capacity in 2024. That's because renewables are the cheapest…

Solar and wind power are dominating new generation capacity around the world.

Apr 10 •

March 2025

Net zero is NOT making UK industrial electricity prices higher than other countries - here's why

Anti-net zero campaigners have, for some months now, been using the fact that the UK has higher industrial electricity prices than other Western…

Mar 26 •

Badenoch ignored Tory opinion research when she abandoned net zero. Because she values winning Reform voters much more than others?

As we all know, Kemi Badenoch has broken with the policy of the last three Tory Prime Ministers (yes even Liz Truss as PM!) and abandoned ‘net zero’.

Mar 25 •

How energy efficiency has defeated bloated energy supply projections - it will do the same with projections for AI

There’s a general belief going around about surging energy demand in developed countries like the USA and the UK.

Mar 22 •

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