Author Archives: Alan Moran

The Wall Street Journal outlines Mr. Biden’ plans to wreck the US economy: ban on drilling leases and development on federal land, which accounts for 22% of oil and 12% of gas production, (and phasing out of all oil and … Continue reading →

Why, in spite of a glut, are new renewables still being built? 2020, like 2019, will see $9 billion spent on new (large scale) wind and solar generators. That is over 6 GW in each year (Hazelwood was 1.6 GW … Continue reading →

Compounding the further retreat from a rational energy policy that the government announced last week, this week the government announced the curiously titled ‘First Low Emissions Technology Statement’. The statement flags further interventions in energy supply and elsewhere to reduce … Continue reading →

I have a piece in the Spectator coffee club on the raft of new measures the government has announced to shore up the electricity and gas supply industries, they and their predecessors have destroyed.  A slow fuse  was lit in … Continue reading →

Joe Biden’s new claim to be in favour of law and order is not the only area where the Democrats are tracking away from the radical left.  Among the crazy policies that the Democrats have been promoting (with disastrous consequences … Continue reading →

Changes are afoot at the Last Night of the Proms. Not only is this classical-music institution, founded in 1895, guilty of being hideously historic it has also been accused of encouraging people to celebrate being British. (Like there’s anything to … Continue reading →

I have an article on The Spectator flat white that addresses the calamitous energy situation we have created in Australia.  The piece was triggered by an article in the AFR by Audrey Zibelman, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), defending … Continue reading →

Total economic ignoramuses, epitomised by Dan Andrews, see the economy as automatically producing no matter what measures the government takes to prevent this. Such views are unmoored from reality but, such outriders aside, within the plurality of views on how … Continue reading →

In The Australian today, we have a puff piece by JENNIFER WESTACOTT (head of the Business Council) and  ALISON WATKINS (head of Coca Cola Amatil).  It is headlined “The window of change is open: now is the time for pro-business economic … Continue reading →

An interesting legal case on the capabilities of electricity grids to accommodate renewable energy has been underway in the US.  In a 2015 PNAS article, Stanford (Woods Institute) based Jacobson et al claimed that with appropriate care electricity grids could … Continue reading →