Eddie’s Blog – Decarbonisation and the failure of economics and economists

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Eddie O’Connor on Decarbonisation and the failure of economics and economists.     In this blog post, Eddie discusses how the SuperGrid discussed in previous blogs will require changes in economics to operate.   Indirect Costs (somebody count the carbon!) Despite the excellence of Martin Wolff’s article in the FT this week, and the facts … Read more

Future Insight Blog #3 – Introduction to the Supergrid

In a series of blogs, Eddie O’Connor will examine how Europe will meet it’s Paris decarbonisation goals.     In this blog post, Eddie discusses how the renewable resources discussed in Blog Post 2 can be harnessed and used to power our society.   I recognised in 2001 that there was one problem with wind … Read more

Future Insight Blog #2 – Renewable Resources in Europe

  In a series of blogs, Eddie O’Connor will examine how Europe will meet it’s Paris decarbonisation goals.     The first question with respect to renewable resource availability has to be; Do sufficient renewable resources exist or do we have to invent new generation of technologies that are not there now?   Consider the … Read more

How Europe is Falling Behind

Eddie O’Connor, Founder 1100kV 12GW UHVDC World First in China There was a time we Europeans used to lead.  The invention of HVDC in the early ‘50s, the Gedser machine in Denmark in the ‘80s, the Feed in Tariffs in the ’90s which allowed wind energy to begin the deployment cycle leading to the 10 … Read more