Trying to make sense of the political economy of energy/climate, various studies of hard-to-decarbonise sectors incl heat, industry, transport, plus GHG removals, public & stakeholder surveys and more... Technology Policy @EPRG @JBS @UCambridgehttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3lpkog52nac2vIt was great fun to write this short piece with my colleague Michael Pollitt a few days ago in advance of the UK-EU summit. We tried to highlight areas of energy and climate policy where we thought there were the greatest opportunities for increased cooperation. https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/eprg-pollitt-reiner-energy-climate-priorities-ukeu-summit-may-2025.pdf19 May 2025 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpkog52nac2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3llryqba5o22pon.ft.com/42dDCse “Boston’s transformation was made possible with more than $1.6bn in state government investment over 15 years […] While we might not be able to match investment at that scale, the UK must make a clear, sustained commitment…” — so the UK can’t afford $100m/yr?! https://on.ft.com/42dDCse01 Apr 2025 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3llryqba5o22phttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3lfria3bxic2oTwo new articles have just come out in the past week and coincidentally both are led by wonderful collaborators at Tsinghua: 1) Bai et al, Assessing the Viability of Renewable Hydrogen, Ammonia, and Methanol in Decarbonizing Heavy-duty Trucks in Applied Energy https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0306-2619(25)00023-615 Jan 2025 09:46 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfria3bxic2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3leyubz6yek2lA useful update but the tone reflects a steadfast denial of the history of German underachievement on grid decarbonisation relative to, say, the UK or Denmark, both of which had substantial coal share in generation a quarter century ago. See Brauer et al (2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422420301143 [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Jan 2025 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3leyubz6yek2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3ldxs4ivslk2jActually, those figures indicate that international aviation still had not recovered by 2022 (and in any case will be one of the last sectors to decarbonise) But it is disturbing how the entire rail network is completely shut on the 25th and we then have rail replacement buses until well Into 2025! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Dec 2024 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldxs4ivslk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3lbr5f7nkc22zIf dunkelflaute means ‘dark doldrums’ then yesterday’s Storm Bert felt like whatever the opposite of that is — maybe ‘bright exuberance’? (‘Hellesuberschwang’?! Pardon the mangled German!) [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Nov 2024 08:51 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbr5f7nkc22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3lbmtvsvtrk2bA reminder that ‘winter fuel payments’ has nothing to do with energy policy it is simply ‘payments to retirees’ that they can spend on whatever they want. It is a shame that addressing the genuine problem of excess winter deaths and the dreadful UK housing stock is not actually being debated. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Nov 2024 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbmtvsvtrk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3lbf75xorqk25Glad to see that Bluesky is not some sort of panacea and that there are still lots of bad takes to be found! [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Nov 2024 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbf75xorqk25https://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3lb3n62za522cPleasure to contribute to this collection with an expert elicitation on DACCS and BECCS co-authored with my wonderful colleagues Manon Abegg, Lucrezia Nava and Zeynep Clulow. Lots of other excellent contributions that are worth digging into as well! [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Nov 2024 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3n62za522chttps://bsky.app/profile/dmreiner.bsky.social/post/3larhf32ftc2zIt seems the energy community is regrouping so I wanted to advertise that our Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at Cambridge is looking for a new Head of its Energy Policy Forum and Business Development Manager. Deadline is 17 Nov (sorry for the short notice!) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48771/ https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48771/12 Nov 2024 18:25 +0000at://did:plc:7e7dz4seef3okjymyrf746ht/app.bsky.feed.post/3larhf32ftc2z