Solar production made a giant surge in the first five months of 2025, up by over a third compared to the same period in 2024.| Energy Revolutions by David Toke
There's some surprising results| davidtoke.substack.com
In reality heat pumps, electric vehicles and solar PV are thriving in the UK| davidtoke.substack.com
Wind and especially solar PV production is accelerating and the renewable energy era is just starting to replace the fossil fuel era| davidtoke.substack.com
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 balance fluctuating wind and solar power.| Energy Revolutions by David Toke
What is the standard answer as to why the UK suffered so much of a gas and electricity price shock in 2022 and thereafter?| davidtoke.substack.com
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 compared to renewables| davidtoke.substack.com
Reform Party will put up to 10,000 energy jobs at risk at Wales| Energy Revolutions by David Toke
Trumps' attacks on green energy are actively helping China overtake the USA| davidtoke.substack.com
Denmark will soon achieve 100% electricity from wind and solar; but across the world nuclear power construction cost overruns soar| davidtoke.substack.com
giving longer term contracts to renewable energy developers will make solar and wind schemes even cheaper| Energy Revolutions by David Toke
As I explain later in this post, UK electricity is currently expensive primarily because gas-fired stations are setting high prices.| davidtoke.substack.com
Solar and wind power are dominating new generation capacity around the world.| davidtoke.substack.com
Anti-net zero campaigners have, for some months now, been using the fact that the UK has higher industrial electricity prices than other Western countries to blame ‘net zero’ policies.| Energy Revolutions by David Toke
As we all know, Kemi Badenoch has broken with the policy of the last three Tory Prime Mnisters (yes even Liz Truss as PM!) and abandoned ‘net zero’.| davidtoke.substack.com
There’s a general belief going around about surging energy demand in developed countries like the USA and the UK.| Energy Revolutions by David Toke
The International Energy Agency (the IEA) is hopelessly biased against renewable energy both in terms of the projections of future energy development it has made and also in the way it frames the statistics about energy supply.| davidtoke.substack.com
Of all the nonsense about nuclear power that one hears, the idea that somehow it is planning problems rather than financial issues that stop its development surely takes the biscuit.| Energy Revolutions by David Toke
The prospect of delivering most of the UK electricity supply from renewable energy is getting closer.| davidtoke.substack.com
But maybe the most important question is whether there is room for the renewable energy programme will continue after the target is achieved| davidtoke.substack.com
I'm the urban spaceman, baby; here comes the twist-- I don't exist (Bonzo Dog Doo-dah band)| davidtoke.substack.com
Despite frequent headlines about planning disputes concerning renewable energy in the UK, green energy planning application success rates are generally high.| davidtoke.substack.com
Far from boosting installation of solar pv on new buildings, new building standards that the UK Government will say they will bring in for England are likely to reduce solar installation rates.| davidtoke.substack.com
Yes, you read that headline the right way.| davidtoke.substack.com
and what does this mean for the future?| davidtoke.substack.com