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Right now #wind is meeting 40% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

Right now #wind is meeting 30% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

Saturday: reconfigure hot water system to burn negative price electricity Sunday: reconfigure hot water system for free electricity Happy Hours Monday: forgot to put it all back to normal, showers are cold, I'm in the doghouse

Also of note, in September 2022 electricity was cheaper overnight than during the daytime. It's the other way round now, shows how much solar has been added in 4 years!

Something big happening on the Dundee waterfront! Inch Cape turbines arriving for assembly, Vestas 15MW www.inchcapewind.com/inch-cape-fo...

We are doing, that's the problem. Several big power lines in N Scotland are shut down while they are being upgraded to 400kV. It's like upgrading a motorway or railway, if we want the extra capacity then we have to put up with years of roadworks and delays while building it!

Just got served this solar advert, showing their map of UK and Ireland Appropriately from the company called 'Outbrain', though posing as the Independent newspaper's website Whatever happened to 'legal, decent, honest and truthful' being the legal minimum for adverts?

So tomorrow is the end of the 3-month window that Ofgem use to determine the UK energy price cap from October onwards. Not looking good, the futures price for electricity has got a lot more expensive in the last three months than it was in the previous three.

"The London Strategic Heat Main will transport low carbon heat and potentially cooling, initially from anchor heat sources at Riverside Campus, located in Belvedere, in.. Bexley, to areas of high heat demand across London." nsip-documents.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/published-do...

The long-awaited LDES results are here - the "minded to" projects are below. 5 quick takes: 1) Lithium going far beyond 8 hours, that debate must surely be dead now.

Great Britain: fleet-wide battery cycling has fallen about 15% since early 2025, but that average hides a split. One-hour batteries lean on frequency response for availability income and now cycle around 0.6 times a day. Two-hour units pair it with wholesale and re-trade, holding near one cycle.

It's 2026 and Ofgem are still telling people to buy halogen and CFL lights ?!? Can you even still buy those any more?

The new bill for electricity after July is actually _less_ than the present April bill, because the fall in consumption has more than compensated for the rise in unit rates! electric bill component: April £796 for 2700kWh July £783 for 2500kWh (For London - costs more in the North!)

1/ Published today in @natcomms.nature.com: our analysis on long-duration electricity storage needs for coping with #Dunkelflaute events in 🇪🇺 . Joint work with my stellar @diw.de colleagues @kittelmartin.bsky.social (lead) and @aroth.bsky.social 🎉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72681-5

If anyone else with dodgy eyesight has found that today's Bluesky update has disallowed pinch-to-zoom: Chrome > Settings > Accessibility > Force Enable Zoom

Ofgem's consultation on how electricity transmission might be charged based on location, after Zonal pricing was dropped NESO are also consulting, and perhaps DESNZ will launch theirs tomorrow! www.ofgem.gov.uk/call-for-inp...

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Crazy how many spells of 20-21 GW wind power we had this January. Think it's about the ninth time and not the end of the month yet! This would have been a new record only a couple of years ago, and now it quietly just keeps happening.

Saw this chart from Ben Watts (his real name, I think) about different time profiles of European electricity consumption. Fun. www.linkedin.com/in/kilowatts/