Energy roundup

What it is

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.

Who it is for

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.

How it differs from my other writing

Energy roundup is the weekly instrument: current, factual, dated.The State of Britain, my Substack, carries the longer argument on energy.The blog here is everything belonging to neither — longer or stranger pieces, notes too short to be essays, and the instruments I build when a number proves harder to find than it should be.