About a year ago Shell released the Sky Scenario. Sky is designed to explore a challenging but technically possible pathway to achieving the objectives of …
Category: Energy statistics
Where can the world get the energy it needs?
A new tool from the Shell Scenarios Team provides new and unique insights Those who follow my blog postings will have noted that I regularly …
Behind the scenes of the Shell scenarios
Shell has been a pioneer in developing scenarios to explore the future and deepen its strategic thinking for nearly 50 years. In the 1990s, the …
Drivers behind flattening CO2 emissions
The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently reported that carbon dioxide emissions from energy use remained flat in 2016, the third year in a row. This …
Doing the energy maths
In a recent Guardian article, columnist George Monbiot takes on the Governments who have signed and are in the process of bringing the Paris Agreement …
Solar deployment rates
There is no doubt that solar PV is deploying rapidly, with 50+ gigawatts of capacity now being added each year to the global energy system. …
Do we focus too much on electricity?
A recent article posted on the GreenMoney e-jounal site argues that society is moving rapidly into a period of structural (and possibly abrupt) decline in …
Professor Sir David MacKay FRS
I was sad to hear of the recent death of Professor Sir David MacKay. I had met him at a few events over the years, …
The Connected Man
Back in September 1971, an article appeared in Scientific American on energy use. It remains very current today. Earl Cook was attempting to look at …
After the INDCs, is 2°C possible?
The last few weeks have seen a flood of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) arrive at the UNFCCC offices in Bonn, presumably to be included …
