Scaling Biogas in North America: Local Challenges, Global Opportunities
Thoughts on where North American biogas actually stands: strong resources and policy support, but a fragmented market held back by offtake uncertainty and inconsistent carbon accounting.
Why Businesses Are Beginning to Rethink Power Infrastructure: Reflections from Microgrid Knowledge 2023
Reflections following Microgrid Knowledge 2023 exploring why commercial and industrial businesses are increasingly rethinking their relationship with the grid through hybrid microgrids combining gas generation, BESS, solar PV, and cleaner fuels to improve resilience and sustainability.
Integrating Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Into Climate Action at COP26
Reflections following participation in an official COP26 Blue Zone side event on short-lived climate pollutants, methane reduction, and the role of gas engines and biogas upgrading systems in supporting both emissions reduction and resilient onsite power generation.
Waste, Cities and Energy Security: Reflections on Sustainable Infrastructure in India
Thoughts following the publication of a white paper examining sustainable municipal waste management and anaerobic digestion in India. Exploring the relationship between waste, energy resilience, urbanisation and environmental sustainability and why biogas infrastructure may become increasingly important in rapidly developing economies.
Africa's Energy Transition Needs Local Infrastructure, Not Just Global Ambition
There is no shortage of ambition when it comes to Africa's energy future. But ambition without infrastructure delivers nothing. Reflecting on International Development Minister Andrew Murrison's visit to Clarke Energy's Knowsley facility in January 2020, Alex Marshall argues that resilient, distributed, locally maintained power generation not centralised grid ambition is the answer Africa's energy challenge actually demands.
Distributed Infrastructure and Economic Growth: Reflections from GTR Africa
Thoughts following GTR Africa on the relationship between energy infrastructure, distributed power systems, and economic growth and why many of the resilience challenges historically associated with developing markets are increasingly relevant to modern digital infrastructure.
Energy Infrastructure Challenges Across a Diverse Continent: Reflections from the Prime Minister’s Trade Delegation to Africa
Reflections following the Prime Minister’s 2018 trade delegation to Africa examining the very different resilient power challenges facing Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, and Rwanda — from unreliable electricity networks and fuel availability constraints to emerging opportunities in gas-fired generation and biogas development.
Microgrids, Flexibility and Localised Power Systems - Reflections from COP23 Bonn
After speaking at COP23 Bonn within the UK Government Pavilion programme, Alex Marshall reflects on the growing importance of hybrid power systems, microgrids and distributed energy architectures in supporting resilient and flexible electricity networks.
Infrastructure Through Uncertainty: Reflections from IFB 2016
Reflections from IFB 2016 on distributed energy, resilient infrastructure, Brexit, international trade, and global energy projects across Australia, India, and Bangladesh.
Powering Growth Across Africa: Reflections on Distributed Energy and Infrastructure Development
Reflections on the role of distributed energy infrastructure across Africa following publication of Power in Africa. Exploring resilient power systems, flexible generation and the importance of reliable energy infrastructure in supporting industrial growth and long-term economic development.
Flexible Gas Generation and the Future of UK Grid Stability
As the UK electricity market evolves, flexible gas generation may provide an increasingly important role in supporting renewable integration, grid balancing and future system resilience.
Energy, Methane and Sustainable Infrastructure: UK–Rwanda Trade and Investment Forum
Reflections following the UK–Rwanda Trade and Investment Forum 2014 examining the role of methane-to-power, biogas and landfill gas infrastructure in Rwanda’s long-term development. Exploring how energy generation, sanitation, emissions reduction and urban resilience are increasingly interconnected across rapidly developing economies.
Five Nines and Fast Power
Making better power infrastructure decisions in the age of AI.