The year in energy – moving backward
The energy scene is usually regarded as too complicated for everyday discussion — best left to technicians, scientists, government officials […] Read More
Author Archives: Lord Howell
Oil and money – a combo that faces a cloudy future
The oil and gas industry remains one of the world’s biggest and most complex. Yet it is also now becoming […] Read More
Facing the new energy and climate realities
The new realities of energy and climate change must now be squarely faced. The two most salient of these are […] Read More
2017 – A year of Politics, Power, Paradox and Unintended Consequences
The year saw Donald Trump settling in at the White House, promising to withdraw America from foreign entanglements and ending […] Read More
Small Modular Reactors: The way forward
Lord David Howell, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Crystol Energy, comments on Hinckley Point C nuclear power project at the Windsor […] Read More
Revolutionary disruption coming to the energy sector
Disruption – driven by ever-newer technology – has become the keyword of the age. Disruption has already played havoc with […] Read More
Chinese Doubts on Hinkley Point C. Is Plan B Coming?
In a speech given on the electricity market, entitled ‘The Price of Power: Reforming the Electricity Market‘, in the House […] Read More
Return of Cheap Energy?
The latest drop in the oil price is further evidence, if it was needed, that the world is awash with […] Read More
The Year of the Unexpected
2016 was the year of events people failed to foresee. The first was that, in the middle of the year, […] Read More
Brexit Meets the Mother of Parliaments
The High Court judgment in the UK requiring Parliament to give its formal approval before Article 50 of the Lisbon […] Read More