Insights

Seven pieces · roughly monthly · latest March 2026

Notes from the parts of the job that are actually hard.

Written by the people doing the work, published whether or not the conclusion flatters us. Roughly monthly.

Latest · Grid · 12 min read

We priced curtailment wrong for six years. Here is the model we use now.

Every constraint forecast we bought treated curtailment as a haircut on annual yield. It is not — it arrives in a handful of hours, correlated with exactly the hours the asset was supposed to earn.

2 projectsthis model stopped us building

Sofie Lindqvist · March 2026

A circular solar array photographed from directly above, ringing a reservoir

Everything else

Six more, newest first

Storage

May 2025

3 min read

Two-hour or four-hour storage? The answer moved in eighteen months

11 monthssaved by reusing the base

We sized a fleet against 2023 spreads and the market re-priced underneath us. What we would ask before sizing the next one.

Battery storage containers in rows across a gravel yard beside a substation

Consent

Jul 2025

3 min read

Consultation is not a communications exercise

11 monthssaved by reusing the base

The objections that stop a project come from somewhere a communications plan never thinks to look.

A low-energy campus building set into planted grounds

Land

Sep 2025

3 min read

Rewetting peat next to a solar build: three years in

11 monthssaved by reusing the base

The ecology ran ahead of plan. The cost did not. Both were surprises, and only one of them was a good one.

Performance

Nov 2025

3 min read

Our fleet against its P50, year by year

11 monthssaved by reusing the base

Fourteen years, published in full and without smoothing. Two have never made their case, and the reasons are in here.

A control room reading live generation and grid data

Development

Jan 2026

3 min read

What a queue position is actually worth

11 monthssaved by reusing the base

Three markets, three sets of rules — and the number that matters is rarely the one written on the offer.

A project team working through a site model around a table

Wind

Feb 2026

4 min read

Repowering is a foundations question, not a turbine question

11 monthssaved by reusing the base

Whether the base can carry a modern machine was settled the day it was poured. You are auditing a 2006 decision, not making a 2026 one.

An operating hydroelectric asset and its reservoir

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New writing, the annual performance report, and nothing else.

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