Seeding wildflowers and native plants under solar panels showed that after five years, populations of native bees had risen to 20 times their initial levels www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

Solar panel areas can be designed to be better for bird diversity than cropland: Ecovoltaic solar energy development can promote grassland bird communities besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #solarpanels #birds #energy #greenenergy #jernmarker

‘It’s the shape of story across all ages and human cultures. You’re in a hole. Then you get out.’ The climate crisis hole is hot, dark and we’re still in it. But Prof Jules Pretty describes how we’re beginning to get out. There is good news…

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

Solar powered Reisling could not only become a thing, but actually save it fro climate change! www.dw.com/en/solar-ene...

"Look outside, hear the thunder, feel the rain: in the real world, change is happening" @fionaharvey.bsky.social in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

40MW floating solar farm approved - set to be the UK's largest such solar farm. www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/solar-projec...

Despite worries about solar under Trump, the sector has not collapsed & prospects look good - hence surge in solar share prices A lot of tax credits have been maintained, datacentres need power and solar is cheap &fast to deploy, rooftop promising as power prices rise www.ft.com/content/af1f...

Solar is once again seeing RECORD growth, generating more in the first three quarters of 2025 than in all of 2024. ☀️ has become the biggest driver of change in the global power sector, with growth three times larger than any other source of electricity. #COP30 https://loom.ly/AK3Fn3I

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.

Reform UK energy plans crumble under scrutiny …evidence shows green jobs and growth are already powering the UK economy

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

And another story in the spirit of making hope normal www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Uplifting evidence that society is inherently humane, despite what we are being told by the far right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack. Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia. Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

NEW DATA | For the first time ever, wind and solar produced more than 50% of the UK's electricity ☀️🍃🇬🇧 🏆 In September, wind and solar generation reached a share of 50.4% Both wind and solar generation also reached new absolute output records for the month of September: Wind: 7.7 TWh Solar: 1.7 TWh

Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away

We’re told that Keir Starmer may not attend the critical Leaders’ Climate Summit in Brazil just before the start of COP30. This would be an appalling abdication of responsibility - handing victory to Donald Trump. Me in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A question for Times columnist Sebastian Payne: What is this cheaper source of "energy" that you speak of? The world's energy experts would like to know…

Some hopeful weekend reading. “This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”

'Farage's core claim is that he somehow speaks for the British people, that his views reflect the “commonsense” views of the silent majority. It’s not true. On issue after issue, including those that define him, he is out of step with most Britons.' Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolutely wild, record breaking numbers coming back on solar-plus- storage tenders in India - equivalent to about 2p per kWh!

Just look at what happened with solar investment - it’s astonishing. Solar has seen the most rapid investment growth, soaring from $142 billion in 2015 to a projected $441 billion this year.

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

What's Nigel Farage's problem with solar panels?

#India #Agrivoltaics. "Best decision I made. My income has tripled, and I sleep peacefully without the stress of climate or crop failure." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The carbon intensity of the UK's grid has fallen by 75 per cent in the past decade. www.businessgreen.com/news/4518854...

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Moving gas plants - which set the price of electricity- out of the market and into a nationally controlled reserve, would take £5bn off the UK’s energy bills “Renewable energy is cheaper than gas but we’re not reaping all of the benefits clean power brings” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.

Imports of solar panels to Africa rose by 60% over 12 months to June 2024 If installed, Sierra Leone imported enough solar to generate 60% of 2023 supply PV imports to Algeria up 33x; to Zambia, Botswana & Sudan over 6-fold; tripled to DRC, Angola, Ethiopia www.theenergymix.com/africa-could...

Gina McCarthy has done more than almost anyone to build the renewable revolution in this country--and she's undaunted www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂 But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

News that the Scottish Government has given the go ahead for the Berwick Bank Wind Farm to be developed in the North Sea | Charlie McCarthy Via @bylines.scot

what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New tech scales way faster than old. Solar went from 100 → 1,000 TWh in 8 years, then doubled again to 2,000 TWh by 2024—in just 3 more years. For each of the last three years, solar was the biggest source of new electricity globally. Nothing else has scaled this fast.

Record momentum for UK battery storage! Planning approvals hitting new highs amid a surge in apps for renewables. 100+ battery storage filings April-June 2025: 8.4 GW—double last year. Year to June: 30 GW across ~400 schemes. UK needs 23-27 GW by 2030 (from 6 GW now)—if delivered, we're there.

China's July 2025 solar production was ~50% higher than its July 2024 solar output! China's solar generated 839 TWh in 2024 and will likely exceed 1,200 TWh in 2025. China's solar will generate in 2025 an amount of electricity equal to about 27% of USA's electricity demand. #energysky

NEW ANALYSIS: Record solar growth keeps China's CO2 falling in H1 2025, extending a decline since Mar 2024 ☀️212GW added in H1 alone (US only has 178GW, in total) ⚡Power CO2 down 3% 🏗️Steel/cement falling too 🏭Coal-chemicals only sector to rise www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/8

UK solar power output is breaking records this year, and has now exceeded the total generated in 2024 🌞 www.ft.com/content/9e49...

Solar has never been cheaper, cleaner, or more popular. Across rooftops, fields, and industrial sites, it’s quietly reshaping the UK’s energy mix. Lots of great clips from @chrishewett.bsky.social in this episode, but the biodiversity snippet is one I really like.

I wrote this earlier this week arguing that domestic clean tech is becoming ubiquitous and will unlock massive benefits for households and the UK economy as a whole. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...

Really exciting news of an all-electric garden new town that promises to slash energy bills for residents. www.businessgreen.com/news/4517464...

The future of housebuilding is here:

This is how solar farms supports British agriculture and improves food security - Farmer: "The consistency of the income, it helps you sleep at night." Let's hope the local council go on a site visit! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Belatedly getting round to reading this from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and it really is a brilliantly concise summary of quite how significant and exciting the clean tech transition is becoming. It remains beyond weird this stuff is not more widely understood. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Renewables have powered over 50% of the UK’s electricity for the first time on record. Clean, secure, homegrown energy = lower bills, good jobs, climate action and freedom from fossil fuel markets we can’t control. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Solar power electricity production is rising faster than any other generation technology in history (say Goldman Sachs) "Solar energy.... is likely to meet a high share of long-run global energy demand because drivers of the surge look structural" www.gspublishing.com/content/rese...