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Europe's hydro drought has moved north
Reservoirs are near decade lows in the Nordics and decade highs in Iberia — 2026 is 2022 turned upside down, and prices are following the water
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Blame it on the sunshine
When the frequency broke on 23 June, demand was running above NESO's forecast. Air conditioning and AI cooling were blamed — five summers of settlement…
Jul 29
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Don't Rush to Buy Plug-in Solar
Plug-in solar is finally legal — and still the wrong thing to buy. The battery is the story, and it's waiting on the regulator, not the engineers.
Jul 27
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Grid Supply Point Archetypes
The grid was built to flow top-down. In the countryside it's started flowing bottom-up — and that's what the operator now has to forecast.
Jul 23
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The Night France Saved the British Grid
Inside the control-room nightmare of 23 June: the day Britain's grid ran out of margin — and was saved by a phone call
Jul 20
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How I regret my heat pump lacks air conditioning
How in some parts of the UK, air-to-water heat pumps can more easily bounce back to rival air-to-air i.e. air conditioners
Jul 17
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Europe now drives 80% of the swings on the South-East's grid
Is it time to re-think how electricity flows within and to/from GB?
Jul 14
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Congratulations on your growth. Now HMRC would like a word.
I tried to pay the taxman more. It turned out he'd rather I didn't — and that should worry a country that says it's chasing growth.
Jul 14
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We built a power grid to watch winter. Summer is coming for it.
A heatwave won't break Britain's grid — we hedged that risk almost by accident. But the very reason we're safe is why nobody is watching the summer…
Jul 13
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The money to green Britain's homes is already in the walls
Efficient to run, expensive to own — and the barrier isn't the tax.
Jul 10
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I went looking for a grid cover-up. I found something worse.
What one grid evening — and the meter in my cupboard — really tells us about British energy
Jul 9
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June 2026
Is Britain Europe's floating battery?
In the 2022 gas crisis Britain was the continent's regasification hub. On a 2026 heatwave evening — ten years to the day after the Brexit vote — it was…
Jun 24
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