The case for a Clean Energy Alliance
Posted in Comment, Policy, Technology on 01/25/2017 09:47 am by Stephen TindaleThe low-carbon energy sectors – efficiency, most renewables, CCS and nuclear – should work together more strategically
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18 January 2017: Why the Swansea tidal lagoon should be supported
Posted in Comment on 01/18/2017 08:45 am by Stephen TindaleLast week the former energy minister Charles Hendry published his review on tidal lagoons (https://hendryreview.wordpress.com/) I am a consultant to Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP), so not disinterested. But I think that anyone reading the report will recognise it as an extensive, evidence-based and therefore serious review. Hendry was in my view a good energy minister […]
read more »10 January 2017: My evidence to IPPR’s Northern Energy Task Force
Posted in Comment on 01/10/2017 11:52 am by Stephen TindaleI am submitting evidence as an individual. I have worked on energy issues since 1989, for think tanks (including IPPR), NGOs, government/opposition and energy companies. I am now freelance: 2 days a week I am director of the Alvin Weinberg Foundation (www.the-weinberg-foundation.org), a think tank working on advanced nuclear energy; 1 day a week I […]
read more »24 October 2016: my recent work on shale gas
Posted in Comment on 10/24/2016 05:09 pm by Stephen TindaleLast week the Sun published an article by me on shale gas https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1997618/as-a-lifelong-green-im-convinced-frackings-the-only-solution-to-energy-problems/. The journalist I worked with on the text was excellent, and I had full editorial control. In the article I say that shale gas is part of the answer. The headline writer then wrote that I think it is “the only solution”. I don’t. […]
read more »Bioenergy: Panacea or Pandora’s box?
Posted in Comment on 10/20/2016 11:51 am by Suzanna Hinson
My response to government decision to approve Hinkley Point C nuclear power station
Posted in Comment on 09/15/2016 03:47 pm by Stephen TindaleThe EPR is not the most promising reactor design – very complex and so very expensive. But now that the Government has decided to go with the EDF proposal, I hope Hinkley Point C is built as quickly as possible, without major problems and without going significantly over budget. And Greg Clark can now turn […]
read more »1 September 2016: report on an anti-fracking meeting in Lancashire.
Posted in Comment on 09/01/2016 06:43 am by Stephen TindaleOn Tuesday evening I went to an anti-fracking meeting in Preston, Lancashire. I support fracking, but I also support evidence-based campaigning (seehttp://climateanswers.info/2015/09/25-september-2015-we-need-evidence-based-campaigning/) and try to listen to different sides of the argument. And views in different parts of the country are often very different, so I need to get out of London to hear them. […]
read more »Being pro-nuclear does not undermine climate and energy goals
Posted in Comment, Policy, Technology on 08/26/2016 10:57 am by Stephen TindaleOur response to Sussex Uni. Being pro-nuclear does not effect decarbonisation and renewables. It doesn’t matter to the climate how we decarbonise, it just matters that we do.
read more »How community benefits from shale gas could work
Posted in Comment on 08/09/2016 12:56 pm by Stephen TindaleConsultancy Remsol has today published a constructive Blueprint for shale gas community benefits. (http://www.remsol.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Remsol-A-Blueprint-for-Shale-Gas-Community-Benefits-09082016.pdf ). I wrote the foreword: “UK shale gas production could and should be part of a low-carbon transition, enabling Britain to phase out coal more quickly while strengthening energy security. Domestically-extracted shale gas would be less climate-damaging than coal, but also than […]
read more »29 July 2016: Open letter to Greg Clark MP on Hinkley review
Posted in Comment, Policy on 07/30/2016 06:15 am by Stephen TindaleDear Greg, Congratulations on your appointment to run BEIS. I welcome the creation of the new department (see http://climateanswers.info/2016/07/15-july-2016-new-british-government-a-step-forward-for-climate-strategy/). And it is great to have you back working on energy and climate change. I also welcome your decision to review the Hinkley Point C proposal, following yesterday’s Final Investment Decision by EDF. The UK needs […]
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