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Dieter Helm
Personal blog · dieterhelm.co.ukeconomicspolitics
Dieter Helm's personal blog at dieterhelm.co.uk covers economics and politics. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Dieter Helm's blog for writing on UK energy and infrastructure policy, including nuclear financing, offshore wind, emissions accounting and water privatisation.
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Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford with expertise in Natural Capital.
What Hacker News says?
This analysis neglects the impact of moving heavy industry offshore -- Britain still benefits from the consumption of industrial products, historically some industrial products consumed domestically may have been manufactured in Britain where CO2 emissions from manufacturing would be counted as British emissions. Now the same products are manufactured in China, perhaps with lower environmental regulation. Both count…
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on “Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)”> don't forget that we are tied into paying that price for the life of the plant. Construction + 35 years, actually. (expected life 60-80 or more years) > And then on the hook for the decommissioning costs and storage of the waste. Not sure how it works in the UK, but in most places nuclear operators are required to pay a certain percentage of operating revenue into a government fund to cover the decommissioning and…
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on “Dunkirk auction result boosts the case for offshore wind energy in France”As an aside, Hinkley Point C is so expensive because they really botched the financing. Nuclear cost is all about minimizing the cost of capital. What they did pretty much guaranteed the opposite. Here's an alternative model being proposed for future UK nuclear energy projects: http://www.dieterhelm.co.uk/energy/energy/the-nuclear-rab-mo...
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on “UK energy bills 'used to subsidise nuclear submarines'”Dieter Helm recently wrote an article about scrapping the current water privatisation model, without re-nationalisation: https://dieterhelm.co.uk/regulation-utilities-infrastructure...
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on “Why privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain”