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Plenty of snazzy dashboards out there, as well as tonnes (too much) of commentary - but this must be 'the' record wind curtailment event. 6-8GW of BMRS wind for maybe up to 36 hours straight. That's rather large.

New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.

In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence. www.theclimatebrink....

I don't have much time for the 'solar should be built on brownfield' argument its not realistic for scale deployment. But as brownfield goes this is a pretty good example

The biggest and most important win for the environment in years. The pursuit of an end to Amazon deforestation and a fossil fuel phase out will now continue. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Trumputin election diesel. www.rawstory.com/amp/trump-ma...

Cumulative energy generation over the past few days as Storms Austen and Boelo pass through

Well @octopus.energy if you say its free up to 16kWh for the Happy Hour I'm going to try 😀

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The adults are not in charge. 'Generally' Give me strength.

Ofgem aims to have a single framework covering disconnections from the gas network in place from 2031. It has said little about what that framework will contain however, and much remains to be decided 🧵

Some raw material produced by Irish refinery ‘undoubtedly’ supplying Russian military, EU’s sanctions envoy says

Relying on one vote on South Holland District Council PC for critical infrastructure (Pre-DCO work for Grimsby to Walpole project) that in turn enables eg the 1.5GW Outer Dowsing OFW is suboptimal!

Austen tracks too low to be interesting on generation (Sco quiet) Boelo looks to have strong winds widely so will be the first test (subject to ongoing Sco reinforcement constraints & the status of the big yet to commission Eng OFW) of 'winter' outputs.

BIG jump in China's exports of solar in September, far above any earlier month, except the export-tax-driven wave in March. Solar kit with annual power output equal to 10 large nuclear reactors exported in just one month. Media reporting wildly off as they used wrong metrics!

90% to Oct. Q1 forecasts are in the +25% range atm (Price cap assessment window 19 August 2026 - 17 November 2026) or rise from £1700>2150) w/ another small rise in Q2

I just skimmed back at one data set. 3 years after they installed a heat pump, and with no gas consumption, some were still connected to and paying the standing charge for a gas connection. At times my fellow humans are strange 🤦

It sounds like a joke, but this here is genuinely a wind-powered rocket ship.

Bit behind Hams Hall (350MW/1243MWh later 400MW/1424) which has energised its supergrid transformers but Iceni 300MW/600MWh co-lo w/ Hornsea 3 OFW is not too far off now.

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

Our bikes are 'not for jousting,' says Lime after Hackney duel

Power generation from coal and gas fell 1.4% in China in September, despite a steep drop in hydropower, as solar, wind and nuclear more than covered all additional power demand. Coal&gas fell for the third month in a row. Monthly China statistics 🧵👇

Is this a sop for the BUS being cut; we wait to see. Its a weakness but perhaps not surprising that they have excluded insulation after the shambles of the ECO scheme. Full fat plugin batteries still being in the weeds with a safety study is also going to cut off a segment of the market.

0.05% is their best scenario. The net present value as Doug implies is btw -£23.4bn and -£62.5bn

Car manufacturers are no longer obliged to use green steel as redemption for combustion-engine cars, is the German-France proposal. Instead, rail (!!) will have to compensate!

At that stage of the energy crisis where GB is turning back the clock to 'stop the harmful effects of competition' aka penalising customers seeking (future) cheaper prices

Every part of this is awful. 100% becomes 90% becomes 80% (w/ alternative fuels cobblers) Then they scrap the green steel investment requirement and finally engage in ludicrous bad faith that hybrid emissions shd be lab based not real world 🤦 All thrown away in a grubby stitch up over protectionism

Installation rates are below the dotted line atm.

I think the 'decisions' were taken long ago. We're just in the going through the motions stage to avoid an easy JR. But at least on RB its hard to see any way, if approved, it won't be in court.

The Chair of Energy Security and Net Zero Committee in yesterdays energy Qs. Carney has been swinging a wrecking ball at key Canadian climate policy; God help us!

'Dispatchable generation is where you burn a fuel' Not sure what hydro & geothermal will make of that definition!

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@billmckibben.bsky.social explains why he cannot support the permitting reform bill, showing due respect for @whitehouse.senate.gov & clean energy advocates who believe it's a positive step forward. A must-read, both for the analysis & a lesson on how to lower the temperature in fractious debates.

Ha! "He also made a commitment to the final results being published in autumn, and “not the Ofgem ‘autumn’ that may drift to winter or indeed to spring”

Earlier this year, E3G released a big report with the Department of War Studies at Kings College which showed that our dependence on gas is a major national security risk. Cutting heat pumps to fund defence is like not paying for a flu jab so you can buy lemsip. It makes no sense.

Yup. If the state wanted to do low income 🏘️ first it could, but it would have required a substantially larger budget than they were ever willing to commit Also from a purely 🍃 POV, the CO2 savings from a large (eg oil CH) (older) (generally wealthier) 🏡 will beat a small 🏠 often substantially