Archive - Energy Revolutions by David Toke

Exposing a week of Daily Telegraph distortions about green energy!

In reality heat pumps, electric vehicles and solar PV are thriving in the UK

Aug 8 •

July 2025

How small increases in renewables produce big cuts in carbon emissions

Wind and especially solar PV production is accelerating and the renewable energy era is just starting to replace the fossil fuel era

Jul 31 •

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 - good riddance?

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 British industry by taking us back to steam engines

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 will make renewables cheaper - and there is really no alternative to renewables

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

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