Truss is campaigning on the fresh meat of tax cuts. Her fiscal headroom is instead going to be blown on keeping the lights and radiators on. She worked as a commercial manager in Shell’s LNG division… (View Post)

I think it will double the capital cost of a circa 5kw system. But it means you a) have grid resilience (important in the sticks), b) can consume as much of your own power as possible rather than dum… (View Post)

Had the solar man round. Panels and Tesla battery seem a no brainer economically. A shame the govt wasted the summer rather than negotiating for as big a job lot of batteries as it could get its hand… (View Post)

I don’t think anyone is drawing firm conclusions yet are they? These are tentative first glimmers of new science, which might turn out to mean nothing at all but might turn out to mean everything. Le… (View Post)

My memory of the text books is hazy. But it’s often better to think of inflation about being the value of money rather than the price of goods and services. US energy prices have not seen anything li… (View Post)