The Week in Energy — 31 October 2026
The week the Budget paid towards the bill and moved the rest around.
One email a week: what actually moved in energy, what it cost, and which of it matters. Ten minutes, every source linked, so you can check me rather than trust me.
Every day I sweep the energy press, the departments, the regulators, the auction results and the operational data. Most of it is noise. Once a week I set out what survived: the numbers that changed, the policy that moved, and the handful of things worth your attention.
The method is always the same — find the unit. A storage plan stated in gigawatts tells you how fast it can pour, not how much is in the jug. A business case stated in jobs tells you what it employs, not what it costs. The unit that flatters is always supplied; the unit that decides is usually left for someone else to find. That is the work.
People who have to make decisions where energy is a variable, and who would rather read one careful email than thirty press releases. No hot takes, no forecasting theatre, and no claim that cannot be traced to a published number.
Week in Energy is the weekly instrument: current, factual, dated. The State of Britain, my Substack, carries the longer argument on energy.
The week the Budget paid towards the bill and moved the rest around.
The week the plans to cut your bill mostly found someone else to send it to.
The week the regulator said gas stays for decades, and the bill for the wires grew.
The week the grid was squeezed from both sides.
The month the small print told the story.
The week a supporter of the transition warned that electricity won’t follow gas back down.