Walt Patterson On Energy

Recent work


My current project for Chatham House and the Sussex Energy Group, is 'Managing Energy: Rethinking The Fundamentals'. A series of Working Papers challenging the conventional view of energy in society, and proposing a more promising vision - WP1, 'Managing Energy Wrong', WP2, 'Managing Energy Data', and WP3, 'Managing Energy Technology' - are now available. What was to have been WP4, on 'Managing Energy Business', is now evolving into a full-length book provisionally entitled Rethinking Energy. Notes recently found in my files, for a lecture I gave at Cambridge Energy Summer School in 1979, entitled 'Energy and Purpose', show just how far back go the roots of my current research and writing.

On 21 November 2012, at the Quality Urban Energy Systems for Tomorrow (QUEST) conference in Winnipeg, Canada - my home town - I gave a keynote at the gala dinner entitled 'QUEST For Better'.

Modern Power Systems published my column 'Smart grid? We can do better' (February 2012) and 'We can have a secure energy future – but do we want it?' (Ootober 2012). The journal Geopolitics of Energy, April 2012, from the Canadian Energy Research Institute, published my paper on 'Fueling Geopolitics'. In October I visited northwestern Denmark to see 'A Fossil-Free Future? The Danes Just Do It' (European Energy Review, 12 November 2012).

With the invaluable help of Josep 'Pep' Puig of the Grup de Cientifics i Tècnics per un Futur No Nuclear in Barcelona, we are now able to offer Spanish readers a download of the first edition of my book Nuclear Power in Spanish.

My latest book, Keeping The Lights On: Towards Sustainable Electricity, is now available in paperback.


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