I’m surprised to see this from YouGov. It’s a perfect example of how not to ask a polling question. “Clean energy” can be – and in most instances is – “cheaper energy”.

‘We are going to be offering A KIDS’ MENU this summer featuring lobster, steak au poivre, oysters, offal, snails’ Restaurant owners being creative in how they take use the VAT advantage on ‘kids meals’ - as profiled by @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/london-hea...

This is such a weak, imprecise, and shabby argument from Blair.

Time for old fashioned Gov public information posters to drive the message home.

Changing cars in Luxemburg? 😅 Pretty sure this is what they will come up with.

Ofgem confirms 13% rise for Q3 GB ⚡ Word of caution bc Ofgem has also reduced the Typical Domestic Consumption Values (TDCV) (2,700kWh/11,500kWh ⚡/gas to 2,500/9,500) its possible sources online will mix the old & new ie the Q2 Cap is £1,641 the Q3 cap is £1,663 under the new TDCV (old TDCV £1,862)

I well recall the online debates where the majority of debaters opined that zero traffic deaths is an utopian goal and would require methods that would kill Helsinki, if not bring about totalitarian communism

I disagree on the low odds the market is pricing for a serious disruption of oil supply this year, but I agree on the impact over time. Even when oil for this summer was up by $50/barrel, oil for 2030 was only up $5. This matters hugely for the structural impact of the crisis.

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

Here we go then, the first all time UK temperature record provisionally falls in this current #heatwave .. 0.5C higher than the previous

A hot 'Bank Holiday' weekend, and almost all solar being connected at distribution, saw a new record low for GBs transmission demand yesterday: 12.62GW between 13:00–13:30 No 'Turn-Up' via the Demand Flexibility Service required but its coming. Only a matter of when.

Sure folks, that strategy has been working so well for you... "committee members said they were unable to vote in favour and decided to defer for a site visit" "They were warned the council had lost the last six appeals against solar farms"

Somewhat a problem of HMTs own inaction. Either they accept a move to pay per mile/ToU, keep VAT high for roadside 🔌 & raise it for home 🔌 (😬) or they haemorrhage money as fuel duty falls off a cliff during the transition

JUST DROPPED: Europe thought it won the energy war. Build LNG terminals, swap Russian pipelines for LNG, job done. Then Hormuz closed & prices doubled. We didn't end our dependency. We just changed who we are dependent on. But bright spots on horizon. open.substack.com/pub/janrosen...

£8 of (net) solar exports yesterday, and with the weather set in, it will keep my summer drinks selection topped up nicely.

NEW | Wind and solar just produced more electricity than gas globally for the first month on record In April, they produced 531 TWh (22%), compared with 477 TWh (20%) for gas. Wind and solar generation has more than doubled in the last five years.

Potentially picking up some momentum on storage in East Devon - with several solar farms in build nearby in an already rich solar region. There are two other BESS at planning inquiry stage (150MW & 80MW) near Axminster. Exeter near the IGP site has a project trying for the ongoing Ofgem 8hr LDES

Feel free to roll your eyes when they are planning airport expansion, likely still to allow more O&G & haven't the bottle to even have an install ban date for gas boilers or wood burners.

For the most part my smart home quietly gets on with its job. I rarely interact with it anymore, as scheduling and automation make it just work! Changing my export tariff today was no exception - 6:20pm Octopus confirmed the change by email. 6:30pm my smart home had already acted on it!

With the usual bucketload of salt on the detail and surviving to make it into law this looks a really significant planning change that could make a big difference for certain critical projects (and I say that not just because its something i've called for for a long time!)

NESO forecasts atm for the Bank Holiday 23rd-5th

NESO's OTF this morning referenced an increase in GB frequency volatility events for which one working hypothesis is that it could be cause by NIV-chasing

It’s fascinating how quickly plug-in batteries can take over the role of ‘traditional’ demand response. No faffing about with manual settings, poor interoperability or comfort restrictions. Simple, effective and scalable, clear user benefits.

National Audit Office 'Value for money' report on Sizewell C stating the bleeding obvious "but the rewards for investors still appear high, given their limited exposure to project risk. The extent to which investors will be incentivised to control project costs in the way DESNZ assumes is unclear."

Pathetic. Giving money to Russia and undermining Ukraine just so holidaymakers can get their sunburn in Ibiza cheaper and without risk of disruption.

A long way from my part of the GB grid so I wasn't particularly watching but parts of East of England, which has some well known grid bottlenecks, had 2hrs of free ⚡ (🐙 Power Ups) on 5 of 7 days last week and 4 of 7 the previous.

Home buy/sell is an ideal time to make these upgrades when general updates are often being made already. Relying on New build or EOL of existing boilers is just too slow a timeline to deliver the home heating transition needed.

Oh joy, after 16yrs of fuel duty freezes and £120B of lost revenues 🙄 The real value of tax on a litre of fuel in Jan was 39% below its peak in 2011 Funny how support for power/heating is means tested but cars - proportionately used by the better off - get a free pass

The Financial Times ran an entire story of coal shipments "jumping" that is based on an algorithmic artifact in shipping data.

NEW ANALYSIS: Do renewables make electricity cheaper or more expensive? I pulled together wholesale and retail data across Europe and the US. Wholesale prices track gas exposure, not renewables share. Retail prices barely track either. Read full piece👇 janrosenow.substack.com/p/do-renewab...

"As part of the Agenda Transform, we powered fast chargers directly from a high-voltage transmission line - no traditional substations, no distribution network. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ And it worked." #alwaysbecharging

Constructive ambiguity perhaps; water is so indebted some nationalisation might be the route but not the energy industry More control? Ofgem already needs a code modification & a public consultation to change a font from helvetica to baskerville!

There are plenty of energy shortcomings from the Aus Gov but its home battery rollout isn't one of them. 11.2 GWh in 10 months. Europe is missing an open goal not trying to match this given how difficult things could become and having had plenty of warning.

"This effect is particularly evident in China, where solar and coal capacity have expanded in parallel and are often co-located. Regions with high coal capacity aligned closely with areas experiencing the greatest solar PV losses."

Delays, maybe. For how long, nobody knows.

With local elections now done UK decisions on planning can resume. Those with planning and CFDs now waiting on FID

1 down 196 to go at Hornsea 3 (2.9GW/15MW /'28)

16.5GW today, 93 in the pipeline (Up to 125 in 2050), delivery on the 40s GW of capacity by 2030 is off-track though - even if enough is in build/supported or consented to hit whats needed on a delayed timeframe Trivia: Hornsea 2 topped the output at 10% of OFW Gen in '25 narrowly beating HS1

☔ On windy days, when gas power is almost entirely displaced, very low wholesale prices are recorded. Put another way, when gas falls to below 20% of the power mix, prices fall like rain. In this way, the benefits of clean power are felt long before full decarbonisation of the grid is achieved.

Councils barely have a penny to rub together which is clearly part of the problem "In the year from August [2024/2025], at least 15,195 complaints were made against wood burning in England, but only 24 fines were issued." Needs National Gov to act with a new CAA. Its ducked the issue again & again

Long term gain for medium (>2030) term pain as inevitably upgrade works increase constraints/curtailment Projects inc Denny to Wishaw 400kV which crosses the B5 - most GB curtailment is at or above this boundary

Not 'uncertainty' but accountability.

And their exports, in April, of new energy vehicles also exceeded pure petrol/diesel first the first time.

The NHS is a bit of a haven for old tech - a few still make everyday use of fax machines; but still, coal 🤦

An increasingly likely nightmare scenario for 2026: worsening fossil fuel and fertilizer crisis, combined with record global temperatures and drought. Fossil fuel dependence really doing a number on us.

Over 15 years and counting to reach the inevitable conclusion that this is going to be in Copeland. What happens when you require community consent without bothering to define what counts as a community.| New Civil Engineer share.google/YBoZK7nfaqxL...

Trump is very deliberately & visibly killing the US wind power industry. Nobody even seems to be putting up a fight. As far as I can tell, the ACP -- the utterly fucking useless, spineless, compromised clean-energy trade association -- is responding with sternly worded letters.

"5kWh battery and a 4 kWh solar system...could earn £300 a year...at a rate of 15.1p per kWh under the dedicated export tariff. " W/ 🔋 far higher; self consumption usually poor 💷 outside ❄️ In '25 15p/kWh easily just w/ PV. But eg my battery allowed ToU exports.

ANALYSIS: Wind and solar have saved UK from gas imports worth £1.7bn since Iran war began 😎 Record-high wind+solar output 🔥 Record-low gas generation ❄️ First ever winter with wind+solar out-performing fossil fuels 🏆 Wind+solar beating gas for 15 straight months 1/5

Some people 'celebrate' the day of the year they notionally have earned enough to pay their annual taxes & now work for themselves I'm more of; the day my solar export earnings exceed my accumulated import earnings debt from Q1s winter*. Today is that day *Ignoring credits carried over from '25