Peter Head

Communities Host Britain’s Biggest Renewable Energy Projects, but Rarely Own Any of Them. The UK Green Finance Community Hub aims to change that. lnkd.in/p/enQVREux

The clean power push to supply Britain with the cheapest gas on Earth. Solar power being used to power an electrolyser that breaks down rainwater to make hydrogen, which is combined with carbon dioxide in a reactor to produce the gas. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

One of our own! Ballon D'or WINNER!!!! Sir Harry Kane

BREAKING Brazil's Lula clinches victory over Bolsonaro to win fourth term: official results show

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

Beautiful autumn leaves on trees and bushes today 🙂💚🌳

Over the past year, Chinese shipbuilding yards have secured 74% of the contracted global cgt, taking their share of the global orderbook to 64%. Nearest competitors South Korea hold 19% of the orderbook, followed by Japan with 6%. www.seatrade-maritime.com/shipyards/sh...

More than 50,000 heat-related deaths are estimated to have occurred in European urban areas during summer 2026, modelling by LSHTM & @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social suggests. Around 2/3 of these deaths have been linked to human-induced climate change. Read more👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Storm Austen moving quickly East towards Cornwall in UK right now with wind gusts of 80mph expected overnight. Heavy rain as well which is rather welcome.

London was once an industrial powerhouse. Now an industrial revival is taking place. From jet engine components to green energy technology, a new wave of industry is taking shape in the heart of our city, attracting investment, driving innovation and creating good jobs for Londoners.

UNEP 2026 Report: “Even an optimistic scenario of current government pledges (full implementation of all national climate plans plus meeting additional net-zero targets) puts expected peak global temperature rise at 1.8°C” www.unep.org/en/publicati...

A group of countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia and including India and China, is pressing for publication of the IPCC Assessment report AR7 to be pushed back to 2029. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Agrivoltaics in France providing local energy and higher crop yields. Farm machinery works underneath. 20% higher silage maize yield under the 5m high canopy compared with the uncovered control area (Amance 2026) www.tse.energy/en/projects/...

Google has been ordered to temporarily stop work on two datacentres in Finland after failing to carry out the necessary environmental impact assessments on its construction sites. Large areas of pristine forest had been cleared. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Singapore is planting one million trees to cool its streets and scientists say the biggest impact could be on air-conditioning bills with modelled savings in summer cooling energy use averaging 6 to 9%. m.timesofindia.com/articleshow/... timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...

Big moment in our family technology journey. Our roof aerial has gone forever! Replaced by internet. Amazing how many homes still have them in UK!

Electric truck manufacturer Harbinger announced that it has received an order from global delivery giant FedEx for 2,000 of its all-electric trucks, with a total order value exceeding $300 million, www.esgtoday.com/fedex-signs-...

Denmark is repurposing discarded wind turbine blades as bike shelters; the distinctive shape of the wind turbines could also be ideal for making skate parks, stadium bleachers, or sound barriers. www.designboom.com/design/denma...

TGV Lyria train 9774 just reached 301km/hr speed on the way from Geneva to Paris.

China's solar domination even surprised its coal bankers. "The scale of that clean energy influx has brought huge benefits for consumers. Solar has provided not only a cheaper source of power, it’s also added electricity access in some underserved regions." Electricity to the underserved! gift

BirdFlow combines citizen science observations with weather data and artificial intelligence technology to help scientists detect specific species and insects using weather radar and predict their migration routes. news.mongabay.com/2026/08/from...

U.S. nuclear plants are licensed for 40 years. Some have received 20-year extensions not once but twice, extending their lifespans to 80 years. This will partly facilitate powering data centres. www.energy.gov/ne/articles/...

As of 1 April 2026 there were 119,080 public EV chargers in the United Kingdom including 27,372 rated rapid or above (50kW+). China has 23 million public EV chargers. Both UK and China are ratio “one charger for every 60 people”. www.gov.uk/government/s...

The ACP100 ‘small modular reactor’ demonstration project, under construction at the Changjiang site on China's island province of Hainan, successfully passed its non-nuclear turbine test run. Powers 526,000 homes. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chi...

A tourism development on the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia now runs on what its developer calls the largest ‘off grid’ solar 340MW and battery project in the world, after the operating consortium reached full commercial operation, maowce.netlify.app/solar/articl...

Under the “East Data, West Computing” initiative, China’s government is concentrating construction of new data centres in China’s sparsely populated interior, where land & renewable energy sources are abundant compared with the heavily built-up eastern seaboard. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

China has an ambitious plan ​to channel more green electricity directly into the rapidly growing data centre industry. Authorities aim ⁠for renewables to supply four-fifths of the sector's total power consumption by 2030, a sharp rise from just 11% ​in 2023. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

European reliance on Russian nuclear fuel increased in 2025 despite efforts to diversify its uranium supply after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sprott Asset Management said in a new report www.mining.com/europe-relie...

In a roadmap published on Wednesday, the German government set out for the first time an explicit promise of “transitioning away” from fossil fuels. Previous pledges were only for “carbon neutrality”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hongguo has overtaken China’s four largest long-form video streaming apps including iQiyi – often dubbed China’s Netflix – in daily viewers as its free shows and expanding supply of AI-generated content transform competition in the online entertainment sector. www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...

Bornholm Energy Island (BEI) project, a visionary project to connect multiple Baltic wind farms together via a single hub & transport the green electricity that they generate to consumers in Denmark & Germany while providing transmission capacity for cross-border trading. bornholmenergyisland.eu/en/

China has launched nine satellites — including its first integrated "rocket and satellite" AI computing project — as part of its push to put AI computing in orbit. Solar energy plus cold in space make sense for data processing. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Hurricane Polo is still strengthening after undergoing extreme rapid intensification and becoming a rare Category 5 on Tuesday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. www.cnn.com/2026/09/22/w...

Happy Equinox to you all, whether emerging from or heading into winter. Somewhat concerned about what the extreme El Niño might have in store for us but for now a gorgeous warm still evening here to celebrate the turn of the year 🎉🙏

It was the “summer of truth”. Climate chaos ripped through Europe, sending heat records tumbling, scorching crops in fields, burning forests, emptying rivers & reservoirs, warping train tracks, melting roads & killing about 35,000 people in Europe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bhutan adopts GEP Gross Ecosystem Product (alongside GDP) as a benchmark for land use planning, a standard for evaluating management & performance, & a framework within which to develop payments for ecosystem services & green finance mechanisms. naturalcapitalalliance.stanford.edu/research/pro...

Tang argues for a shift away from anti-social AI to pro-social systems aligned with human wellbeing (Treating AI like soil not oil). She builds small: localised AI systems she calls Kami, each caring for one specific community – which can be as small as two people. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

Enjoying the new London Docklands Light Railway trains today. I am very proud to have designed 19 bridges on the original railway in 1984 and been responsible for teams designing Bank, Lewisham and Beckton extensions plus upgrades. Such an economic success for London! We have come a long way.

Researchers from China’s leading universities and tech giants are setting their sights on a crucial new front in the AI race with the US: developing systems capable of building better versions of themselves without human intervention. www.scmp.com/tech/tech-tr...

China officially opened its landmark Pinglu Canal to navigation on Wednesday, providing a shorter route to Southeast Asia. The 134.2km (83.4 mile) waterway links Nanning, the capital of the southern region of Guangxi, to the Gulf of Tonkin. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...

I think a lot about Asimov's Zeroth law lately

In the UK in 2013 Network Rail did a deal with EDF to provide nuclear energy to match all electrical rail energy demand in the UK for the long term. world-nuclear-news.org/articles/edf...

A reminder that since 2017 all Dutch trains have been 100% powered by renewable wind energy. www.theguardian.com/world/2017/j...

China deserts like Gobi also support massive new solar farms which use agrivoltaics to allow grass to grow and sheep to graze. lnkd.in/p/erwivSwT

Greening a desert in China giving hope! The Sea and Death turned green. lnkd.in/p/eZRG8Arv

Barcelona is making room for nature by taking asphalt away. lnkd.in/p/eAUaaTb8