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2015

 

The Economics of Clean Energy

 
24th September 2015    |     Peter Rolton: Chairman, Rolton Group

Winding the clock back to the start of parliament in 2010, I’m sure we all remember David Cameron promising to deliver ‘the greenest government ever’, with rhetoric about taking the necessary hard decisions to ensure we are equipped for a prosperous and low-carbon future.

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Resource Responsibility and the Global Carbon Crisis

Rolton Group

 
5th March 2015    |     Peter Rolton

Although it doesn’t feel so long ago, it has been almost two years since I wrote about the mounting risk of investing in fossil fuels; in short, great portions of the reserves we are currently spending billions per year to discover and explore will have to remain unburnt if we are to avoid more than 2°C of global temperature rise, leaving eye-wateringly valuable assets stranded under the ground and potentially creating a global financial crash far more serious than the one from which we are just starting to emerge.

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Macro to micro: How will volatile global markets affect UK construction?

Rolton Group

 
21st January 2015    |     Chris Evans

With Chinese investors treating their stock market like a weekend at the Venetian in Macau, it came as no surprise to see the country’s regulators step in this week to hand a three-month ban to their three biggest brokers on opening new margin accounts, which allow investors to bet big with borrowed money.

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Community Energy: Re-energizing the Local Power Scene

Rolton Group

 
5th January 2015    |     Peter Rolton

I’ve been writing about the need for a reconfiguration of British energy for a long time. On the infrastructural side things are a mess, and they don’t look any better from the spare capacity perspective, nor from the fuel poverty angle.

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