
Helm Talks - energy climate infrastructure & more
Hosted by [Host Name] and Dieter Helm · Helm Talks - energy climate infrastructure & more
4.8from 33 ratings
- 96
- Episodes
- 44
- Transcribed
- 33
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Helm Talks - energy climate infrastructure & more
Helm Talks is full of short, 'pull no punches' insights into: Energy & Climate; Regulation, Utilities & Infrastructure; Natural Capital & the Environment. Professor Dieter Helm is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford.
- Publisher
- Helm Talks - energy climate infrastructure & more
- Category
- business
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
44 of 96 episodes have a transcript.

30 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Can't Britain Build?

16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Energy realism: why energy costs are a very British crisis

2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The politics of the long grass
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Why Can't Britain Build?
Published 30 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It costs about $45 billion and rising, just as an estimate for what it would take to build another runway at Heathrow Airport. It costs about a billion a mile to build a high-speed railway, HS2. And at a slightly lower level, it costs a quarter a billion to replace a bridge on a road coming into Oxford, a Botley Road fiasco. And not only do these things cost so much, it takes more than a decade to build a nuclear power station. It's going to take more than a decade to put a runway in place at Heathrow. Goodness knows when whatever's left of HS2 will be finished, anyone's guess of the final date. […]
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