Electric vehicles – or something else?

Electric vehicles – or something else?

‘If the electric vehicle only is a substitute for the current car and we continue with a car-dominated mobility system, the low carbon and inclusive economy will still be far away’. (Schot and Steinmueller, 2018 p 1562). ‘If the electric vehicle only is a substitute...
Getting to Grips with Units

Getting to Grips with Units

We’ve had some interesting discussions recently as a result of getting tangled up with energy / engineering units commonly used by different parts of the industry – and we’ve developed an interactive app to make our lives a bit easier, by getting to...
Olwg awarded B Corp Pending Status

Olwg awarded B Corp Pending Status

We are delighted to announce that Olwg has recently been certified as B Corp Pending. But what is exactly is B Corp? B Corp is “to business what Fair Trade is to coffee” in as such that B Corp businesses give as much consideration to their social and...
A Lag in the System

A Lag in the System

The title above now has a twofold meaning: Initially it referred only to a simple bit of lagging in our domestic hot water system; but considering that a couple of months have passed since (during a cold snap in early February) I started writing this, it now also...
Carbon transition: A microeconomic perspective.

Carbon transition: A microeconomic perspective.

The first thing to say, I am not an economist; in fact, I have only just started to learn about economics in my recent studies. Specifically, I have been learning about microeconomics. Microeconomics is a branch of economics that studies individuals and firms’...