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Steven Bowen

Steven Bowen

After starting as an engineer, Steven has 30 years' experience in the finance/investing world, including in corporate finance, debt markets, broking, and as an activist buy side portfolio manager.

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Coal's (very) long goodbye

Bloomberg (republished in various newspapers) recently highlighted coal's recent period of resurgence, on the back of China's energy insecurity, rising Indian demand, the fallout of the Ukraine war, and "faltering international programs to wean developing economies off fossil fuels". If we go back a

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What caught our eye - three key stories (week 13, 2024)

UK's diversity drive backfired?; coal's very long goodbye; buying affordable ethical chocolate is hard

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Economic shutdown in the energy transition

It's not just the total cost of the alternatives that we need to consider, it's the operating cost advantage. Much of what we read about transition technologies, such as EVs, heat pumps and renewable electricity generation, focuses on new capacity being added. So new EV sales

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What caught our eye - three key stories (week 12, 2024)

Economic shutdown in the energy transition; facilitating inclusion; temperature control is key need

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Sunday Brunch: Geothermal as a solution - but not just yet

One of the challenges around renewables based electricity grids is coping with the periods when the variable generation sources, such as wind and solar, are insufficient to meet demand. Which is where geothermal has a role.

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EV charging on a neighbours driveway?

A recent report from Zenith suggests that only 1 in 7 UK EV drivers use public charge points. The EVXperience Report (EVX2), which polled almost 2,800 of Zenith’s EV customers, also shows that more than two-thirds (69%) primarily rely on charging off-street at home. The good news is

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Legal opinion - no surprise, directors do need to consider nature related risks

The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative, together with Pollination, commissioned a legal opinion from a team of corporate and financial law barristers on the duties of UK company directors and the need to consider and assess nature related risks. For regular readers of our blogs, it will come as no

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What caught our eye - three key stories (week 11, 2024)

Transition: it's not like-for-like; directors must consider nature related risks; EV charging on a neighbour's driveway?

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Sunday Brunch: the building blocks for a good strategy

Financial accounts might sound like they are only for financial specialists. But that would be wrong. The financial Annual Report should also be about sustainability.

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The dawn of the industrial heat pump age?

There has been a lot of coverage (including from us) on the development of heat pump technologies for home heating. And it's not impossible to see residential heat pumps overtaking gas fired boilers in say the next decade. One approach that might accelerate this is heat as a

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Obesity increasing, green fertiliser (or not), and the dawn of an industrial heat pump age ?

Obesity increasing, green fertiliser (or not), and the dawn of an industrial heat pump age ?

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Sunday Brunch: Agriculture needs less complex tech?

If we are to build a more sustainable agricultural system globally, we need technology that is cheap, modular, and easy to implement and operate.

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