Does Combined Heat & Power Provide a Carbon Benefit?
CHP is efficient, but is it clean?
Recent Posts
Fixed versus Variable Costs
A fundamental concept in business and energy.
Vaclav Smil on Carbon Capture & Storage
Two insights from the excellent Vaclav Smil.
IEA 2016 World Energy Outlook
Highlights from the 2016 IEA World Energy Outlook.
A Look at Wind and Solar
How far we’ve come and is there an upper limit?
Four Negative Effects of High Return Temperatures
Why are return temperatures are a major problem in district heating?
Imbalance Price Visualization
Plotting using matplotlib.
Gas Turbines and Ambient Temperature
Explaining the relationship between gas turbines and ambient temperature.
Why we can’t learn from Costa Rica
Costa Rica is often wrongly held up as an example of how to go renewable.
What is the UK Imbalance Price?
An introduction to how the UK recovers electricity grid balancing costs.
Is the decline of nuclear destroying the progress of renewables?
Insights from the IEA World Energy Investment 2016 report.
A chemical engineers 22 most used Excel shortcuts
Confessions of a former spreadsheet monkey.
Q = m Cp dT
The equation I used the most as an energy engineer.
Kilowatts kW vs Kilowatt Hours kWh
Being careful and consistent when dealing with kilowatts and kilowatt-hours is a basic for all energy professionals.
HHV vs LHV - GCV vs NCV
Explaining the conventions for quantifying the heat of combustion.