After Lowry

After Lowry is a 52-part essay series about what happens after we install infrastructure.

It explores the unglamorous middle years of decentralised energy, the period after ribbon-cutting, after incentives, after press releases when systems are expected to quietly perform for decades.

The series looks at:

• why maintenance, evidence, and method matter more than ambition

• how real systems age, drift, and fail in the field

• where standards help and where they break down in practice

• what we’ve misunderstood about “set and forget” infrastructure

Written from the perspective of someone who inspects systems for a living, After Lowry sits between engineering, operations, and culture.

Not a how-to. Not a manifesto.
A record of how things actually work.