https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/energy/ Recent content in Energy on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/energy/the-grid-we-did-fix/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/energy/the-grid-we-did-fix/ Great Britain's grid clean-up in numbers: carbon intensity from 251 to 124 g/kWh, a full year at zero coal, wind now the largest single source, two decades of falling demand that absorbed 1.8 million EVs, the DVLA fleet split by body type, and why the price never followed the carbon down. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/energy/rejected-energy-what-the-livermore-chart-shows/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/energy/rejected-energy-what-the-livermore-chart-shows/ Lawrence Livermore publishes a diagram of where American energy goes, and two thirds of it goes nowhere useful. What rejected energy is, why the 62% everyone quotes is really 65.8%, why wind and solar shrink that block rather than add to it, and the three fixes for transport: electrify the cars, redraw the zoning, build the metros.