The tabloids will have found the NESO gas report by now. The coverage will be just fine I'm sure. (Checks)

First there was a sudden string of mysterious cable & pipeline incidents in the Baltic Sea. Then the Baltic Sea nations collectively took action. The incidents have stopped (for now). www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res... An @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social Maritime Threats initiative report.

A dishwasher that can switch to off-peak times? These French companies have created a dishwasher that can be linked to the French smart meter to receive the off-peak price signal. It's a good move (but it's not Europe's first, as they claim).

NSIPs planning timelines going about as well as you probably thought...

I thought the policy was backward but not quite so literally!

Quietly out while all the chat is budget. NESO Gas Supply Security Assessment

new favourite New York Times term for a British thing just dropped

Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.

When can you declare an emergency over? The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak

Given how many leaks or contradictory briefs there have been who knows. But maybe just maybe HMT is not going to pick the most harmful option of a VAT cut 🤞

Given carbon budgets there are no credible options*; but of the two fantasy options picking the one where you mess around with the busiest stretch of road in the UK is top level ministerial work 😩 (*The Dept for Transport lost the memo about climate change some years ago & has yet to find it)

I think it was superfluous to add to the story he was British; when after nearly 21 hours of swimming and covering a distance of 40 miles (in becoming the first person to swim around the island of Lantau) he wanted his first meal to be "Cheesy beans on toast."

Yet to be convinced on LAES esp at 50/300MWh -v- BESS. Though the stability island 1.6 GVAs/100MVAr due in phase 1/'26 will always be useful. The Hunterston project 300/3.2GWh 3.8 GVAs/300MVAr surely a better guide as how relevant it will be.

Tbf to the UK Gov's Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce report I think the 'lead regulator' argument is good (& should apply outside nuclear) I'm generally sympathetic to the JR/Aarhus arguments as well. But some points are a bit 😩. Eg the discussion about emissions

There’s some very bad news hidden in the Ofgem price cap for January announced yesterday: the electricity to gas price ratio has jumped to 4.67, its highest level since before the energy crisis. This is a big barrier to households adopting heat pumps in Britain, and threatens our climate goals

🤦 The tortured logic of knowing you have to get off O&G but being unwilling to stand up to O&G and its vested interests.

Sizewell C is responsible for a quarter of the rise in the unit price of electricity from 1 January. Meanwhile the unit price of gas has *fallen*. The opposite of what we want! From 1 Jan ⚡ goes up just over 1p; 0.35p of that is the new nuclear levy. ⚡ will be 27.7p per kWh, up from 26.4p. 1/

Given many councils signed up to contracts where they have to deliver waste to burn (or pay penalties) unpicking this mess is going to be 'fun'.

Permission in principle but should go through. Facilitates ~1.8GW of renewables to connect into Tx network. Delivering more immediately tangible benefits than many projects as the accommodation needed for the construction teams adds 100 homes for the community.

Really the perfect winter weather combo for an electric house. Cold but clear. Today's 🌡️ : -2 to 4c 🏠🌡️(Live) : 21.5-24c Heat Pump : 5hrs Even scheduling cooking/dishwasher/washing machine etc while I was out solar has almost covered it.

For those interested in where the Demand Flexibility Service is heading...

"The rise of China’s electric truck sector is one of the more under-reported stories in the global energy transition" 💯 apnews.com/article/chin...

Das neue französische Kernkraftwerk Flamanville 3 mit einer Nennleistung von 1620 MW ist seit dem 20.12.2024 am Netz. Am 12.11.2025 hat es erstmals 1195 MW bzw. 74 % der Nennleistung erreicht. www.energy-charts.info/charts/power...

Having a chuckle reading some planning objections. A couple of them seem very concerned that the solar farm is going to use fertilisers. Presumably thats how the panels get so big!

Some 'fun' headaches in Aus until bigger storage deployments (commercial and domestic)

Given how tight the scoring is 5-9 the UK could easily drop sharply in future years given some ongoing backsliding on O&G, fossil boilers and risible airport expansion.

Essential projects for GB to hit CP30 and manage otherwise fairly eye watering constraint costs

Doubt I'm alone in seeing a strong bywash on some canals & thinking that really should be tapped The Canal & River Trust does have some weir projects with potential for more. Always going to be difficult for a cash strapped organisation. More so individual canals Shame about the aesthetics

In November 1749, John London walked from his home to vote in the Westminster constituency parliamentary by-election. As Dr Gillian Williamson explores, this provides the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election:

Ah, proposing building a bess next to a pylon, OHL and a big substation and within 90m of a hydrant. Fire Service didn't object So naturally this had to go to appeal. Successfully Still top marks for 'concerns' on fire risk when the actual occurred fire risk at the site might be prevented by...!

NEW REPORT: Three Provocations for the Future of the Power Market. How do we reduce constraints on our power network? /1

Still early days, but the electric HGV market is starting to move. Was only a few years ago when serious people were arguing this technology would never work. It is now being deployed at scale by some of the world's most successful businesses. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521910...

Before it was lost MethaneSAT did take a look at the Permian Basin, and found a methane leak rate of almost 3% Almost all of the US's growth in methane production has been from the Permian Our marginal source of gas is US LNG Methane has a global warming potential of at least 30x that of CO₂ 1/

Ah the joys of my slightly excessive solar gain. Its 6-7C outside & my HP was last on 4-6am (2C overnight). The front of the house has risen ~4C since sunrise (2.5hrs). I'm 1mo from the shortest day of the yr I would have to login & override the heating for it to come on in this afternoons boost

There is about half a GW of untapped low-to-no-regrets, run-of-river hydropower resource in the UK, whose generation profile will be disproportionately valuable in a future electricity system dominated by wind & solar. All this place-based energy should be developed as community owned projects!

We're three weeks shy of the 5th anniversary of my hydrogen ladder being published. Back then, there wasn't a lot of clarity where H2 might fit and the ladder was designed to direct efforts to feedstocks, ammonia, etc. There is no excuse for this waste today.

Whatever the merits of the bill or otherwise this is absurd. "There appear to be seven opponents to the bill who have submitted 579 amendments between them."

🤔 People who post about politics online are much more likely to describe themselves as “more kind than average”. Might be that we need a national self-awareness day as well as global kindness day.

Consistent policy is essential for manufacturers to invest and installers to scale in order to deliver the Government's legally binding climate targets. HMT: Hold my Beer.

Ouch. 17 of 20yr for the project in permitting and licensing. Makes GB planning sound positively nimble.

Hard to see why they won't keep forcing coal plants to stay running when the review of the May order 'will likely stretch into the middle of next year'.

the kicker is simply hiding in plain sight "Those include a large industrial base that is hard to decarbonise, a high dependence on exports at a time when globalisation is under threat, and a mighty auto industry having to write off 140 years of internal combustion engine expertise." ⚡️⚡️⚡️

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Looks a shrewd pick given they're moving ever more into a whole home offering - assessment is a cost/delay issue.

Pretty logical step to get its 18.5MW turbine through testing while the arguments about a turbine factory in Scotland continue. Assuming they want to feed production into the bulk of a lagging CP30 target the factory needs to be producing '28/9

Back in the 90s when 26 x 600kW (!) x 55m (tip) was a huge 15.6MW! Originally iirc 14 x 6 x 200m (84MW) though its being reported as 79. But in any case a substantial increase. Nearby is a proposed (Ofgem's LDES C&F ongoing) Vanadium Flow Battery 500MW (12hr) (2030) (Edited for clarity)

China's first solar and wind auction under the new competitive contracting system, in Shandong, was a shock to solar developers due to low prices. After 5 more auctions, things look more balanced or at least more varied. No other province saw as large cuts to pricing as Shandong.

This is what hell looks like...🔥

CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."