George Baxter

Whenever there’s debate on energy and climate change, as we are seeing fleetingly in the 2024 election campaign, you can rely on nuclear power fans to flood the zone with claims that it is the answer. It all seems so simple. But it isn’t. Far from it.

It is possible to power transport, homes and businesses and run energy networks using a wide range of genuinely clean technologies that already exist, including pumped storage hydro, grid-scale batteries, smart local energy systems and demand management, energy efficiency measures, green hydrogen, wind, solar, hydro, heat pumps, wave and tidal, EVs and the rest.