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Chris Bond is happily retired after working over forty years in Energy. His hobby is analysing real data – mainly from the UK, USA, and Europe – to assess whether reality supports 'net zero' ambitions. Spoiler alert: it mostly doesn’t.
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UK ‘Renewable’ Energy 2025 (opens the original)
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IntroductionThe Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) 2026 [‘Accredited official statistics’] was published 30 July. This updates the UK’s energy ‘transition’ story through end December 2025. “If you require supporting data tables please refer to the DUKES table of tables”. “DUKES_2025_table_of_tables.pd
Batteries to the Rescue? (opens the original)
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IntroductionMy last post “Energy ‘Transition’ on the NEM” was based on just over two years of ½-hourly power generation data from the Eastern Australia power grid (the NEM). In it I identified two deep NEM-wide Wind lulls: in June 2025 and again in June 2026. I plotted these in Figures 4A and 4B, repeated below. Figur
Energy 'Transition' on the NEM (opens the original)
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IntroductionI’ve written multiple posts about Australia’s NEM, because it’s a live experiment on a continental scale. By that I mean it’s testing the theory that a modern, wealthy, industrialised territory can still #KeepTheLightsOn while it ‘transitions’ to generating a large majority of its power <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisbond/p/the-sunniest-day-yet-in-aus?r=om40y&utm_campaign=post-expanded-shar
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