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
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 the enhanced electricity era of the supergrid following on from the discussion on the economics of the supergrid n Blog Post 5. The companies (Transmission Service Operators) which are responsible … Read more
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 supergrid discussed in Blog Post 4 integrates decarbonisation into the energy markets. The need for a new economic paradigm to pilot the way to sustainability in electricity production … Read more
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 supergrid discussed in Blog Post 3 will require changes in politics to operate. Much has been made of the loss of confidence of big business in the … Read more
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
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
In a series of blogs, Eddie O’Connor will examine how Europe will meet it’s Paris decarbonisation goals. Paris The Paris Accord at COP 21 managed to achieve what had failed at Kyoto and Copenhagen and that was to get the nations of the world to commit to decarbonising their energy systems. The macro … Read more
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