Go Green and re-float the World
Here below is a synopsis of a speech I gave in Farmleigh on Wed, 11 December to the ‘Sustainability Gathering’. ‘Sometimes it takes only a few minutes to change the way we think about things. A month...
View ArticleWhy gas is not the solution to Europe’s energy security challenges
The events in Crimea and the Ukraine in recent weeks have thrown Europe’s dependency on Russian oil and gas into sharp relief. Although regrettable, the turmoil has come at as good a time as any....
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Welcome to the electric society
Extract from remarks by Dr Eddie O’Connor to the BOAO Conference, Seattle, September 2014. Last week my company, Mainstream Renewable Power, announced a change to our corporate strategy....
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On a single electricity market for Europe
In the second of Mainstream Renewable Power’s opinion pieces for 2015, Eddie O’Connor sets out the need for the European Union to move swiftly to the delivery of a single electricity market as the...
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On Oil, Renewables and Pension Funds – nine months on
Eddie O’Connor and Adam Bruce return to look at the impact of plunging oil prices, new technology, and the resilience of renewables nine months after their original article published in January 2015....
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‘Change is Coming’– Speech at the Bristol Green Capital Summit
I’ve been in the renewables business now for almost 20 years now and I’ve been fortunate to work with the very best in the industry. One of these being Andrew Garrad who has in fact worked in the...
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How Secular Stagnation is costing the earth
Dr Eddie O’Connor is CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power. In this article he returns to the theme of secular stagnation, and the role of capital investment in driving economic growth, especially in...
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Renewable energy can compete at market price in Africa
Developing adequate power supply for Africa is one of the great challenges of our time. The climate agreement in Paris in December at COP 21 makes clear the global consensus that our energy future...
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Three policy instruments to facilitate electrification of emerging markets
In my last blog, I explained why the West should invest in electrifying Africa and other emerging markets. In this blog I’m going to talk about three policy instruments which could be deployed to...
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“A Marshall Plan for Africa” – Eddie O’Connor at the Africa Energy Forum 2016...
Ladies and Gentlemen, “It is indefensible that Africa’s poorest people are paying among the world’s highest prices for energy. A woman living in a village in northern Nigeria spends around 60 to 80...
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