BNEF: Climate Lawsuits – An Existential Risk to Fossil Fuel Firms?

As I fly in to New York for Climate Week (I know, flight-shame, more on that later), I have been reading about the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma. Over the past 20 years the company has been hit with over 2,600 lawsuits because of the central role its Oxycontin painkiller played in the opioid crisis sweeping […]

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Project Bo: Saving lives in Sierra Leone with Solar, Batteries and Twitter

In November 2017, browsing my Twitter timeline in the cab on the way to an industry dinner, I came across a Tweet that hit me like a punch in the guts: “Three of our oxygen-dependent babies died last night when the power went off. Not good enough in 2017. Low-cost tech e.g. affordable solar power […]

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Conservative Home: Clean energy needs less regulation, not more

In most sunny parts of the world it is cheaper to generate power from photovoltaic modules on your roof than to buy it from your utility.  The best newly-built wind farms are selling power at the equivalent of 3p/KWh before subsidies, which neither gas, nor coal, nor nuclear power can match.  LED light bulbs can […]

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