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Peak lopping
On Tuesday, faced with a combination of cold weather, high demand, uncertainty over electricity imports and low renewables output, National Grid resorted to coal generation for the first time this winter. The 60-year-old West Burton A power station was fired up. From the perspective of those people antipathetic to renewable energy, it was evidence that…
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Degrowth
In the news recently: As usual, the language is telling. We learn that the UK economy will perform even “worse” than Russia. The economy “needs” its over-50s. We must have tax cuts to “get the economy moving” and “unlock the post-Brexit potential”. We all know that GDP is a measure of economic activity – both…