Conor O'Shea

The energy transition faces core structural issues that come from our whole way of thinking about energy, from energy infrastructure to energy markets and energy consumption habits being structured around the energy sources of the past (i.e. fossil fuels). These structural issues can be best understood as problems of time, and can be summed up…

The first problem I want to explore solutions to is the ‘time of cost’ problem. A more full explanation of this problem is included in my previous post, but to recap, essentially the problem is that renewables have the vast majority of their costs as upfront costs and they have no ability to vary their…

In my previous posts I talked about the approach I’m taking to look at the energy transition, and started to look at the first set of problem caused by the ‘time of cost’. Today I’m looking at the problem posed by the ‘time of need’, this is the first of two parts talking about this…