The State of Britain by Richard Lyon
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The Week in Energy — 6 September 2026
The week the small print stopped agreeing with the press line.
Sep 6
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August 2026
The Ledger Nobody Watches
On 28 August DESNZ filed a document nobody covers, because nobody is meant to. I read it, so you don’t have to — and the number inside is worth fifteen…
Aug 28
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The Week in Energy — 22 August 2026
Gas is ‘insurance’, says the government. The premium isn’t priced.
Aug 22
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The Week in Energy — 15 August 2026
The week the state found three new places to put the price of its energy policy — and none of them is a cut.
Aug 15
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Doing your bit in the dark
The moon is now a load-management event.
Aug 12
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The Week in Energy — 8 August 2026
The week ‘consumer-led flexibility’ came to mean a licence to switch your appliances off.
Aug 8
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July 2026
Flying Blind
Britain’s 2050 electricity system has been modelled, costed and legislated around. Nobody has tested whether it runs. It doesn't.
Jul 29
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The Week in Energy — 25 July 2026
£45 off your bill. Nothing off the cost. — A VAT cut that moves money from your bill to your taxes, a storage programme still 'being demonstrated', and…
Jul 25
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Who Investigates the Investigators?
On 23 June, the grid ran hotter than any official statement has admitted. The body now investigating itself is the one that ran it.
Jul 20
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The £92 Billion Scheme Nobody Remembers
Part three of a weekly series taking the UK’s energy subsidies apart, one scheme at a time, using the Subsidy Clock. This week: the Renewables…
Jul 15
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‘Cheaper Than Gas’, Until You Build It
Part two of a weekly series taking the UK’s energy subsidies apart, one scheme at a time, using the Subsidy Clock. This week: Contracts for Difference.
Jul 8
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The end of "studies show"
I've built a deterministic simulator of the British electricity system. It replays the last forty years of real weather, half-hour by half-hour, against…
Jul 5
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