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UK & USA Locking in High Cost Energy
What a strange world we live in. The UK and US, long-time bastions of the free market, are now pulling the strings, dictating the energy...

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Jul 236 min read


Six Lessons Learned From the Road to $10 Billion
Inside OpenSolar’s milestone and what it says about the future of clean energy.

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Jul 223 min read


Let’s Cut the Costs. Let’s Own Our Future.
Let’s talk numbers...

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Jul 93 min read


Ron Bousso’s article “The Path to cheap power will be very expensive” is purposefully controversial and contradictory - but ultimately wrong.
As with so much coverage of solar these days, journalists are just itching to jump on a potential negative news story.

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Jun 225 min read


Solar Surpasses Nuclear – The S-Curve Was Right
April 2025 gave us three huge milestones in clean energy...

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Jun 162 min read


Plastic Is a Design Problem. So Is Our Energy System.
To end pollution, we have to end old ways of thinking

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Jun 43 min read


Why Smarter Trade Deals Can Save the Planet and Boost Prosperity
How global cooperation, cleantech innovation, and fair trade can create a sustainable future for people, profit, and the planet. As we...

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Apr 2117 min read


Unlocking Solar’s Full Potential: Market Growth and Reducing Friction
For decades, energy analysts have underestimated solar. They assumed cost declines would plateau. They predicted growth would stall.

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Feb 242 min read


Drill, baby, drill. Trump and Power - thoughts
On the 1st of July 2007 the UK government banned smoking in pubs. This was after the proportion of adults smoking had fallen from a...

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Jan 226 min read


The Solar Decade 2025-2035
Friends, Delighted to be posting my first ebirchy blog today, as I wish you all a happy 2025 - and an even happier 2035, as we enter...

Andrew Birch ("Birchy")
Jan 133 min read
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