Stephen Jarvis

Agreed that some form of carbon removal looks hard to avoid in various Net Zero or more aggressive decarbonisation scenarios. Still, hard to avoid notcing that to date CCS projects have been consistently underwhelming or fizzled out before they even got off the ground.

BP scraps plans for Teesside hydrogen and carbon capture scheme Move by oil major paves way for data centre at former steel site in northern England

Presumably this aligns with the announcement from BP yesterday that it was scrapping a CCS project in Teeside.

Surprising precisely nobody, more CCS plans delayed/abandoned. This is a technology that is just forever overpromising and underdelivering.

Here here. Might seem like an minor edge case, but a similar solution for canal boats in cities would also be welcome.

Saw this one presented recently. Interesting paper worth checking out for those doing research in the climate damages space.

It’s like performance art

How Scottish campaigners are using AI to battle rural planning applications Tool allows individuals to send unique, complex objections of about 4,000 words within a couple of minutes

AI-enabled NIMBYism has come to clean energy deployment. Virtually all the examples mentioned in this piece are wind, solar and transmission projects. 💡🔌

I really don't understand people. The idea that various reforms to tax rules (e.g. farmer's inheritance, winter fuel, or raising income tax) are somehow even in the same league as the PPE procurement scandal is just mad.

To be clear, this is a tariff on our own exports.

Yes, it will raise money - tariffs do. The question is whether it will also cut exports from one of our core economic strengths- HE.

What If Utilities Just Made Less Money? California energy companies are asking for permission to take in more revenue. Consumer advocates are having none of it.

What If Utilities Just Made Less Money? A question that's right up there with "why do we regulate utilities like it's still 1920?"

The promise, peril and pragmatism of Britain’s nuclear “renaissance” - LSE Business Review Nuclear ’s capacity to help Britain meet its net-zero targets makes it a potentially attractive part of the energy mix. But are the government’s plans viable?

#Nuclear energy's capacity to help Britain meet its net-zero targets makes it attractive.

But do the high cost and complicated logistics of building new plants and the emergence of renewable alternatives, make it unviable?

Shefali Khanna and @stephenjarvis.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social #COP30

Exactly! What is this entire policy for? It’s not like they have some huge manifesto mandate they are leaning on here. Who actually voted for this?

Britain’s tax system combines the worst of the US and Scandinavia The UK’s experiment in eating the rich while shrinking the state has left everyone worse off

Great piece from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on the increasingly top-heavy nature of UK taxation. Valuable new context for the notion that Brits want Scandanavian style public services with US tax rates. All the more worrying that widely trailed broad-based rises in income tax have now been abandoned.

See prior comment...

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander rules out 'national pay-per-mile' scheme for electric vehicles in budget Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, has said the government will not be introducing “a national pay-per-mile scheme” for the drivers of electric vehicles (EVs). Earlier this month the Daily Telegraph reported that a pay-per-mile scheme for EVs would be introduced in the budget. The paper said the scheme would come in from 2028 and that it would cost the average EV driver £250 a year. At the time the government did not confirm the story. But it did not deny it either, and it issued a statement saying that it wanted a “fairer” scheme that would compensate for the fact that fuel duty, the main tax for drivers, is only paid by people with petrol or diesel cars. Today Alexander ruled out a pay-per-mile scheme for EVs – at least on a national level.

Literally one of the few things that seemed like it might happen and would be a good addition to the budget, ideally alongside some broader efforts to reform vehicle taxation.

The courage of this government knows no bounds.

Fast forward two years and will there be a debate about putting in the Perfect Dark cartridge instead...?

Same.

Good news! I had thought I'd read somewhere that heat pump subsidies might be on the chopping block but good to see that actually air-to-air is being brought into the scheme.

Unashamedly stoked for this 🔌💡

Really enjoyed this interview. Southgate always does come across as a decent, thoughtful guy, which aren't traits that immediately spring to mind when thinking about the upper echelons of the footballing world.

Data Centers in Space + A.I. Policy on the Right + A Gemini History Mystery

It appears we have reached the "let's put data centers in space" phase of the AI boom/bubble (delete as appropriate).

Excellent conference - 100% recommend!

New Energy Institute Blog Post: Spreading the Cap-and-Trade Wealth - @severinborenstein.bsky.social

energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/spreading-the-cap-and-trade-wealth/

#climatechange #electricity #energyefficiency #naturalgas #solar

The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Wonderfully pedantic letter in today’s @financialtimes.com

The bar for Qatar is really something!

Scientists charged too much to come to work in UK, says Royal Society Combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa and the Immigration Health Surcharge stands at £5,941

"The combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa ... and the Immigration Health Surcharge ... amounts to £5,941. ... This compares with average upfront fees of £275 across 14 other countries for similar visa schemes."

UK visa fees are absurdly high and utterly self-defeating.

Great article on what sounds like a farcical construction project. I will be sure to avoid the sidewalk on this particular block whenever I'm next in NYC.