What is Energy Flux?

If you’re tired of divisive energy and climate discourse, you’re in the right place.

Energy Flux is written by me, Seb Kennedy, to offer thoughtful and balanced analysis of the global transition to clean energy sources.

The urgency of the twin climate and energy crises demand a clearer understanding of the trade-offs inherent in each solution pathway. Energy Flux has no agenda other than to provide a space for nuanced and considered discussion of those trade-offs.

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Who is it for?

The energy debate has been hijacked by vested interests on both sides, polarising the conversation and squeezing out nuance. Taking a balanced view is now a radical act, and risks you being condemned as either a ‘green extremist’ or a ‘fossil fuel shill’.

But the middle ground is where most people sit when they contemplate the tricky trade-offs and complexities around fuel choices, convenience, sustainability, climate, the economy and social justice.

Energy Flux aims to engage, enlighten and entertain anybody with an open mind and a passing or professional interest in:

• fossil fuels versus clean energy

• energy policy & market design

• energy geopolitics

About me

I am an energy journalist and market analyst using open-source data to shed light on the economics of decarbonisation. By day I am Head of Data Insights at not-for-profit climate analytics firm TransitionZero*.

I’ve been writing about energy since 2008, when I started as a cub reporter on the UK renewables beat. Since then I have written for a variety of trade publications and consultancies, and broadened into oil and gas, LNG, hydrogen, energy geopolitics, market design/regulation and climate policy. Check out my LinkedIn bio here.

* DISCLAIMER: Energy Flux is a personal endeavour and the views expressed here are all mine, not my employer’s.