SSCP-DTP student Jonathan Bosch reveals his insights into modelling the growth of renewable energy technologies at the International Energy Agency. At…
Category: Energy
How do we make renewable electricity cheap enough to leave coal in the ground?
Ajay Gambhir discusses the role of public funding on energy technology innovation The Global Apollo Programme proposal aims to get renewable electricity so…
Apollo has landed: the role of the private sector in completing the race for 100% renewables
Dr Charles Donovan and Christopher Corbishley discuss the falling cost of renewables. In the lead-up to the UNFCCC Conference of Parties…
Reforming harmful fossil fuel subsidies
Jo Tyndall, New Zealand’s Climate Change Ambassador, argues that the time has come for fossil fuel subsidies to be removed. This…
The end of UK coal – views from Imperial
UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd announced last week that UK coal power plants will be switched off by 2025. We asked…
How can an oil and gas company prepare for a low carbon world?
In the run-up to the Paris 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), countries have been submitting their plans to…
Towards a Global Energy Internet
Professor Jo Haigh, Co-director of the Grantham Institute reports back from the Climate Parliament meeting in Lucerne, 12 June 2015. I have…
How do marine renewable devices affect marine life?
by Roan du Feu, PhD student, Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet The marine renewable energy sector is poised…
China Energy Outlook 2015
by Neil Hirst, Senior Policy Fellow, Grantham Institute China’s Energy Research Institute (ERI) releases an interesting analysis of the prospects…
Why subsidise renewable energy?
by Ajay Gambhir, Grantham Institute This blog forms part of a series addressing some of the criticisms often levelled against efforts…