Neil Gascoigne
neilgascoigne.bsky.social
Neil Gascoigne
@neilgascoigne.bsky.social
IT nerd in the UK utility sector, father, dog owner, reader of history, political slinger, analyst, car buff, aviation buff, owner of EV and solar because that matters for my kid’s future.
All sorted now, easy job, thanks for sending it 🙌
November 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I spent a week on a German exchange aged 15 being driven around W Germany in a Renault 29 by a host mum and a digital right foot. Inevitably all journeys were uncomfortable. Doesn’t matter if it is EV, albeit my wife when driving likes to have out off the most extreme regen setting for similar.
September 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Is that 2019 data though? The post UKR inflation and UK price cap will have skewed things. I’d contest many more are on the price cap and in effect, the established big retailers have gotten their way by having customers in effect in a high margin “standard” rate.
September 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Show Me The Money!
The question underlying the UK's defence review
markurban.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Spring is busy being Springy and ignores blissfully the human and political world. Sound on.
May 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Cardigan Bay sunsets are awesome (as you know!)
May 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just don’t do what I did when I had my first one about age 12 and short everything whilst building it… 🔥
May 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I'm going to forecast that unless there's a fallback to naturally defendable boundaries, war will be all too easy to instigate once again. Further, see previous historical partitions and the friction that creates. But we also know common sense does not prevail in that administration.
April 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Free sub via our local County library to PressReader helps us here. Also a new Beano every week, still better than some media.
March 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
It would not be the first time two major powers negotiated the future without consent of the people concerned. One example was the 1916-17 Sykes–Picot Agreement.
February 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I hope US mil and civil defence are preparing for a smooth transition of power in 2029.

Last term was a tactic of setting absolute truth as a matter of debate, which invaded UK politics also. Now the debate is not there and decisions are absolute.
February 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Dreich++

At least the differential in daylight hours is once again accelerating. Sunrise by month end is 30 mins earlier here at 52.5N so daylight at morning alarm time :-)
February 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Shropshire Hills/Montgomeryshire is a lovely area less spoilt by man’s input, still pastoral farming, but biodiversity more akin to the Midlands when I was a kid. These will do well.
February 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Maybe you’re thinking of this, Tash? www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
January 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Aren’t they all controlled from Estonia? That’s a long distance call for help!
December 26, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Small modular reactors are still a way off. All bar Sizewell will have gone offline by the end of the decade leaving the prospect of increased gas-based generation, higher prices and risking net-zero targets. There’s no certainty Hinkley will be online by then. auroraer.com/sector/flexi...
Comment: Missing the Point: What a Delay to Hinkley Point C means for the GB Power Market | Aurora Energy Research
A deep dive into what a delay to Hinley Point C could mean for the GB power market.
auroraer.com
December 22, 2024 at 10:50 AM