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76 from 27 Nov 2021 to 5 Oct 2026
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2026 4

  1. Podcast on offshore wind
  2. A CfD for nuclear lifetime extension
  3. La géographie ça sert à faire la guerre
  4. A few thoughts on the past year

2025 7

  1. Where is electricity demand going?
  2. Ørsted abandoning Hornsea 4 is shameful and should be punished
  3. INTERVIEW - Oil companies are not fit for renewables
  4. Trump silent for 24 hours
  5. Two podcasts
  6. Tariff design and LCOE
  7. Energy policy, politics, facts and narratives

2024 9

  1. Some early lessons of 2024 in the energy sector
  2. Suggestions to reform the German electricity market
  3. How utilities and big oil broke the economic model of offshore wind
  4. Now is the time to invest in floating offshore wind
  5. Renewables developers and the public will no longer have the same interests
  6. Why fans of nuclear are a problem today
  7. "We'll be back" - the oil majors and renewables
  8. The (currently terrible) mood in renewables...
  9. Offshore wind requires Contracts for Difference – not subsidies

2023 18

  1. Podcast on French offshore wind
  2. Five grand challenges of offshore wind financing in the United States
  3. How to design a good offshore wind auction
  4. What was the French-German spat on energy really about?
  5. A few basic truths about offshore wind
  6. Bravo to NPI
  7. Offshore wind and big company lobbying
  8. Some positive thoughts about the UK CFD 5 auction
  9. The cost of wind, the price of wind, the value of wind
  10. Dear governments - stop listening to whining utilities
  11. Why the German tender for offshore wind is bad news
  12. Renewables are just not serious
  13. The duck in the room - the end of baseload
  14. The real lesson about the end of nuclear in Germany
  15. Call us crazy, but we’re betting on a big future for small renewable energy players – even in offshore wind'
  16. Tribune in Le Monde
  17. The EU channels me
  18. A story of two energy windfalls

2022 35

  1. Who hates renewables?
  2. What if the real long term prospect is incredibly cheap energy?
  3. Financing offshore wind
  4. Reminder: the link between gas and power prices makes sense, today
  5. A solution to current high power prices
  6. (Maybe not)Fiction: SINKING EDF CUTS OFF POWER TO FREEZING LONDON TO SAVE PARIS
  7. How can we discuss the energy crisis when journalists are so ignorant?
  8. How messed up was Germany's energy policy?
  9. HKZ is not "the first subsidy-free offshore wind farm" (it's not even subsidy free)
  10. EDF - the strategic questions and to-do list
  11. EDF's woes are a bigger long term problem for EU energy than the war in Ukraine
  12. Security of supply
  13. How to design an offshore wind auction
  14. Wind needs to be competitive against the lowest price of gas, not the average (or the current) price
  15. There will be no new nuclear power plants in the West
  16. Financing offshore wind - part 10
  17. Financing offshore wind - part 9
  18. Financing offshore wind - part 8
  19. Financing offshore wind - part 7
  20. Financing offshore wind - part 6
  21. Financing offshore wind - part 5
  22. Financing offshore wind - part 4
  23. Will oil & gas contractors ever succeed in offshore wind?
  24. One of many reasons I ignore Chinese offshore wind
  25. Financing offshore wind - part 3
  26. CPPAs are a regulatory failure: ‘big tech’ is the only beneficiary
  27. Financing offshore wind - part 2
  28. Financing offshore wind - part 1
  29. The EU energy policy has long been a mess - here's why
  30. Offshore wind debt - 15 years on
  31. We need good data to make smart policy
  32. Our addiction to gas - what I wrote 15 years ago
  33. Introduction to the WFO blog
  34. Why German nuclear is not that relevant to the current crisis
  35. Some background stories on Ukrainian gas pipelines

2021 3

  1. Offshore wind auctions should not be decided by a lottery
  2. Introduction
  3. Coming soon