Recent Posts on danlewis.org

• Latest radio interview on ACR and website update coming
• www.ukcrimestats.com launches today
• My email is no longer lewis.dan@btopenworld.com but dan@danlewis.org
• Return of the Quangos . . .
• Regional and Regeneration policies share the same fallacies . . .

Economic Policy Centre

• UK natural gas prices now 6 ti…
  UK natural gas prices now 6 times higher than in USA http://t.co/GtZ7H5VD gas storage gap and our lack of access to cheap shale gas is real […]
• Predictive policing – now coming across Birmingham
  Posted: February 7th, 2012  Author: Dan   No Comments » If you didn’t see this short report on Channel 4 news last night, watch it on catchup tv here. It’s good to see that West Midlands Police are experimenting with this and now about to roll it out across Birmingham. For all that, when I heard the […]
• Energy policy for a less affluent age
  Read the full article here. In my role as Energy Policy Adviser to the Institute of Directors, here is my latest contribution with my excellent co-author, Corin Taylor. Unfortunately, far too many people in the energy industry and energy policy circles are stuck in a pre-recessionary timewarp. They just don’t seem to have caught up […]
• The UK Space economy: the present and exciting future
  Read the full pdf here.  A special thanks to our brilliant Space Fellow, Jim Bennett – as well as many others – on helping me with this wide-ranging feature article in the latest quarterly publiction of the Institute of Directors. Truth to tell, if you want a positive story about the UK Economy, this is […]
• Bike theft – a highly unreported & numerically significant crime
  Posted: January 30th, 2012  Author: Dan   No Comments » Whilst we wait for www.police.uk, a government-sponsored website competing in and crowding out a supposedly emerging open data marketplace,  to have a full run of publicity – The Sunday Times yesterday, press today and tomorrow – pending a late release of monthly and additional data that we […]

Future Energy Strategies

• Sir Ian Byatt on The Global Water Industry’s Future
  In February last year, Future Energy Strategies held this event on The Global Water Industry’s Future with three excellent expert speakers. Perhaps the best known of these was Sir Ian Byatt, former DG of OFWAT between 1989 and 2000. With his kind permission, we are reproducing a version of his lecture below. The Global Water Industry’s […]
• Powerpoint Slides from our seminar – Future of Road Transport
  A fantastic evening last Thursday – so much detail, expertise and debate plugged into less than 2 hours for our seminar The Future of Road Transport. Special thanks again to all our speakers and to A&O for hosting the event. No wonder then that a lot of people have asked me since to see the […]
• Northern Ireland wants and gets more electricity market competition
  A very insightful piece here in the Belfast Telegraph shows how even in small population areas like Northern Ireland – all of 1.8 million – increasing competition is seen as possible and the key to keeping consumer bills under control. So you might say, why can’t OFGEM deliver more of it in Britain, the other […]
• Vehicle to Grid – the new, new future for EVs?
  This article on Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/24/idUS24604452520110624 would suggest so.  They have focussed on a startup called Nuvve which, based in Denmark which has a lot of intermittent, renewable power. They actually need a serious amount of storage innovation to use all of it – rather than export usually most of it to Norway and Germa […]
• Tony Wray of Severn Trent makes case for deregulation
  Good interview and interesting piece in today’s Independent with Tony Wray, CEO of Severn Trent. Sarah Arnott usefully sizes up the water industry conundrum; Water is a surprisingly complex business. It is the most visceral of the utilities, and has massive capital investment requirements alongside no less than three sets of regulation – economic, environmen […]

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