Reform are so good at finding waste. Here they’ve wasted millions of gov money, the time of the companies applying for the contracts, the procurement and planning teams running the process and the money of Staffordshire residents stuck driving petrol cars. www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...

UK charging industry could face £100m bill under business rate changes

Not the biggest EV misinformation problem we face, but media's image choices can't be helping consumer confusion. Story about cross pavement home charging... accompanied by a pic of an ultra rapid motorway charging hub. "Is my street going to start looking like a motorway service station now?"

No need to ask why Trump and the US right have been instructed to prop up the dying coal industry. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump really claimed climate change is a hoax and the US is the hottest country on earth in the same speech.

I find it bizarre that there are lots of progressives on X calling for a boycott of Tesla. Are they not aware of the irony of where they are posting this? Tesla, albeit the biggest source of Musk's wealth, isn't wholly owned by him. And isn't an online platform designed to spread hate.

To think I was once in contact with Danny Kruger MP to arrange Good Energy's founder Juliet Davenport speaking at a Wiltshire Climate Summit. Now he's off to the party of climate denial.

A solid 78% wind and solar on the grid atm 👌 @neso-energy.bsky.social

A ‘unite the kingdom’ protest in the United Kingdom is an oxymoron. These total losers are marching to support the status quo.

Will any surviving humans in the coming decades be asking why we let liars destroy our planet? Or can we find a way to stop their lies and fix the systems that spread them unhindered? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The latest @climateoutreach.bsky.social BTCN report shows what Reform and the Conservatives are getting wrong. Of course people are frustrated with high costs and you can weaponise that to an extent. You cannot confuse that with people being against climate action. climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/

What, honestly, is the point of the token jazz inclusion? Does the jazz world care? Why aren't other genres given a token inclusion?

If anyone’s wondering where all the goldfinches are, they’re on my in-laws’ lawn #birdsky

Watching this and now I love a band I previously just danced to at weddings and was vaguely aware are important. Trash Theory is an antidote to rapid regurgitative nature of the modern internet. Might be the best music journo of the last decade, or two.

Another harrowing climate change impact.

All those blokes who said 'I'll get an EV when I can drive 500 miles without charging' are going to get one now, right? Right? www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...

This @thetimes.com chart isn't too bad at showing the petrol/electric charging cost differential. It misses a major nuance — most EV drivers don't exclusively charge at home, slow or rapid, but a mix. And 7,500 miles per year is lower than average. Pence per mile would be a more useful axis.

Currently sat in a pub garden in Somerset, England, reading Babel, a book about the beauty of language and the ugliness of colonialism, next to a couple of young lads chatting in Welsh. Do I tell them it’s really cool to hear?

What... kind of opinions? 🤨

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Good news alert In 2024, renewables supplied more than half of the UK's electricity for the first time over a year, reaching a record share of 50.4% Renewables and nuclear combined hit a new high of 64.7% assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6889ec...

Motherfucking wind farms…

This seems to be @octopus.energy caught on a technicality of a technicality. There is plenty of greenwashing and bad advertising the ASA should be cracking down on, this ain't it. Least of all when it's brought to them by the fossil fuel lobby. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

We already knew about the scale of waste from these kinds of retailers, this is eye opening about the environmental impact of the shipping. All that stuff from Chinese e-commerce is getting *flown*.

I've been to Turnberry and can confirm that by far the ugliest thing there is Trump's golf course.

That Chloe Kelly pen felt written #lionesses

Petition to get all the organisers of sports I care about to schedule better.

OK it's time to say... I'm hanging up my hat at Good Energy, on to a new opportunity I'm really excited about. I'll share more about that at a later date. But in the meantime, here's why you might want to do my job next. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I’m not sure if I enjoy watching cycling or I just enjoy ITV’s highlights of the Tour. The camaraderie, the whimsy, the nostalgia, the history, the music montages, the theme tune! Oh and top tier analysis. It’s nothing short of one of life’s pleasures. So upset it’s over after this Tour. #letour

The Good Energy policy team's response to DESNZ's announcement this morning.

Great win and everything but has Sabrina Weigman considered starting with the best players, as opposed to putting them on at 80 minutes?

Electric cars account for 4.6% of all cars on UK roads but 5.3% of car mileage. EVs will make up a higher proportion of newer cars and are better value the more you drive. Still puts paid to the notion they're not suitable for long journeys/high mileage. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Get in Lionesses!

As a heat pump advocate you might be surprised to hear me say: this is a terrible idea. Another subsidy reinforces the idea that this is expensive tech. Remove levies from elec and you lower heat pump running costs significantly whilst reducing ALL energy bills. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

What Juliet said. Want to pay less for wind farms switching off? Forget zonal. Make suppliers disclose their portfolio renewable balancing figures - they'll soon improve.

I can't even sign into Twitter if I try to anymore that website is so broken. (I only wanted to do a quick lurk, haven't been active there for months).

I'm conflicted about this. New electric cars were reaching cost parity anyway and used EVs are often cheaper. Meanwhile running an EV is cheaper for most. But most non-EV drivers are not aware of this. Worry it affirms the perception that driving an EV is expensive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tyrique George has had some great moments this season but this er, trumps them all.

Hi it's Bad Take Simon here with another bad take for you.

The UK has been and can continue to be a world leader on climate. We must protect this green and pleasant land. Meanwhile moving away from fossil fuels makes us more independent as a nation. Rolling back on net zero would indeed be unpatriotic. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Dieselgate never went away. It's a travesty that one of the biggest scandals of our time became about compensation for drivers rather than harm to human health. Electrification and more sustainable transport can't come soon enough. www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

That’s official then, no zonal pricing.

You know how it used to be said if you charge an EV in Poland it might have a higher carbon footprint than petrol, because of the country's reliance on coal? Well... www.ft.com/content/ae92...

This is terrible and I hope it’s not a serious illness but given I’m not there until tomorrow I’m quite happy Deftones have cancelled. They’re the only act I was really gutted to be missing. #glastonbury

1995 eh? What a year for album releases. The Great Escape was the first album I ever bought and later I became obsessed with The Bends, but I’m not sure either would have happened without a summer of Jagged Little Pill on repeat in my parents’ car. #glastonbury

Gen Z like to denigrate millennial music but so much of what seems to get big these days is such sub Lumineers 1975 MOR AI generated sounding musak for Instagram. Yes I am watching the Glastonbury coverage.

Another great idea from @nestauk.bsky.social. Engineer reticence about heat pumps is a major blocker for rollout and their advocacy has the potential to be an accelerator. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

Today’s #showyourstripes day? Throwback to when we showed em on the UK’s first wind farm at Delabole in Cornwall for COP26.

Had a wee accident on my bike today just outside the entrance to Longleat Safari Park and have completely screwed my back up. Shout out to the amazing and lovely people at @longleatofficial.bsky.social who looked after me, brought me water, gave me oxygen, checked my vitals etc. ❤️🦁

Very disappointing to see @cityam.bsky.social / @mauriciofca.bsky.social go in for this solution denial. That's not what they said, is it? The point made was that the high cost of electricity *DRIVEN BY GAS AND LEVIES* currently *CAN* make low carbon tech running on electricity more expensive.