Know someone in #Croydon who needs help with their energy bills, or advice on keeping warm? @croydoncommenergy.bsky.social are offering free, expert energy advice - see below for details!

✨ Community in action! On Saturday we joined Archbishop Tenison’s School to celebrate the amazing improvements they’ve made to their buildings – including our newly installed solar panels ☀️⚡ #CommunityEnergy #Croydon #SolarPower #YouthInAction #RenewableEnergy #CommunityPower

I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW @e3g.bsky.social analysis - Heat pumps have potential to *halve* UK heating bills. But policies need to change if these savings are to be accessible to the mass market 🔌💡 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Croydon Community Energy finally installed solar panels on our first community building! A huge thanks to all our investors, members and volunteers who are leading the way for community energy in Croydon!! #croydon #communityenergy #croydoncommunityenergy #renewableenergy #sustainability

We have two paid opportunities you can apply for at the moment (the deadlines are quite tight but we only discovered these opportunities very recently!) For more information and to apply by 5th September, click here: www.croydoncommunityenergy.co.uk/work-with-us

Fantastic to have been selected as a Labour candidate for Addiscombe East, together with @maddiehenson.bsky.social . Looking forwards to delivering positive change for #Addiscombe, and working with @rowennadavis.bsky.social to transform Croydon into a council which puts #PeopleFirst.

It’s time for households to do one quick check to ensure those eligible get £150 off your bill this winter The #WarmHomeDiscount now covers more than 6 million households [1/3]

Great to join @rowennadavis.bsky.social and @maddiehenson.bsky.social visiting some of our amazing local businesses in Addiscombe - pictured here with the brilliant Alfredo at Farrago Fish. The real sense of community here is what keeps our local high street thriving.

To really put a dent in energy bills, govt should extend this to *all* electric heating. We set out in our latest blog how electrically heated homes are twice as likely to face fuel poverty www.e3g.org/news/the-uk-...

Electrically heated households are twice as likely as other households to be in fuel poverty. So why do policymakers so often ignore them? www.e3g.org/news/the-uk-...

A big step forward - but a "pause" is not enough. Southern should commit to no loss of secure provision on the east side of the station. Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/save-the-s...

Huge thanks to @ndironsmp.bsky.social for supporting our campaign to save the secure bicycle parking at East #Croydon. Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/save-the-s...

Southern axe bike racks over car bomb fears at East Croydon insidecroydon.com/2025/06/22/s... #Croydon #SouthernFail @croydoncyclists.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk @abcommuters.bsky.social

Great to see UK acting to cut electricity bills for industrial users. This is a crucial action to ensure UK remains globally competitive as rest of world also moves towards electrification and away from fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/business/202...

We're about to lose the only properly secure bicycle parking at East Croydon. No public consultation, no proposed replacement, and almost no notice. A terrible move which undermines sustainable commuting. Sign the petition to call for a rethink! www.change.org/p/save-the-s... #Croydon

Voters want Labour to invest in warmer homes and lower energy bills. @e3g.bsky.social analysis found it would be a major boost for UK economic growth too - read our full briefing here: www.e3g.org/publications...

Reform wants to scrap green policies and turbocharge fossil fuel production. Now, the party's treasurer Nick Candy has said he's trying to raise millions from oil & gas executives. Farage's outfit is now effectively a wing of the fossil fuel industry

🌞 NETWORKING EVENT: SOLAR SOCIAL - MAY 8, 2025 Connect with eco-conscious individuals and businesses at our Solar Social networking evening! Free to Attend! Click below to RSVP: www.croydoncommunityenergy.co.uk/event-detail... #croydon #London #CroydonCommunityEnergy #GreenEnergy #GreenEconomy

"It's gas." @mliebreich.bsky.social explains how gas sets the price of energy in the UK power market 98% of the time to Richard Tice on @lbc.co.uk –– more than any other major economy. @iaindale.bsky.social | @adrianramsay.bsky.social | @tessakhan.bsky.social | #crossquestion

Spot on - don't make the climate deniers appear credible by dancing to their tune. North Sea oil & gas is uneconomical. That's a hard truth, but we will do better with politicians who plan ahead for a fair, worker-led transition, rather than ones who cling to the last century.

The right-wing press has spread a load of baseless falsehoods about heat pumps. That’s the main reason why the technology is politically ‘controversial’. By banning Evan Davis from doing a podcast about heat pumps, the BBC is dancing to the tune of people pushing out blatant misinformation

Motorists ‘could save £850 a year by choosing an electric car over a hybrid’ Owners of hybrids save only £13 a year compared with petrol equivalents, finds ECIU analysis. @jjpjolly

Disappointing decision by the BBC. If the BBC's role as a public broadcaster isn't to provide reliable factual information to the public - then what is it?

Why increase bills to pay for "upgrades" we don't need? Great to see the i paper standing up for consumers and calling out gas network profiteering. inews.co.uk/news/bills-r...

We're moving in the right direction at last - but still a way to go to for UK energy independence and lower energy bills.

Great to see UK Government taking action to save British Steel. Highly recommend @laithw.bsky.social's paper if you want more background. Electrification is key to ensuring UK steel-making remains competitive - and we can do this in a way which protects good quality jobs.

The GB power system went below 5% fossil power on 3 seperate occasions last week (8.5 hours total). 🔌💡 In other words, we did "Clean Power" 3 times last week - and the world didn't end. 🧵

Millions of renters are stuck in cold, damp homes, paying the price for weak enforcement of housing standards. E3G's @jamesdyson.bsky.social's new report makes the case for better council funding to fix this. 📅We'll be discussing this further in a webinar on 8 April. More in the post below 👇

Reforms could reduce average energy bills for renters by a massive £240 per year - but only if standards are properly enforced Great report by @jamesdyson.bsky.social sets out how to fix a broken system

Big milestone today - first major investment by GB Energy will cut energy bills for over 400 schools and NHS sites. 🔌💡 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Badenoch gets (deservedly) damning write-up in usually Tory-friendly @telegraphnews.bsky.social: "If you are going to repudiate a core position of the Conservative Party ... you might wish to avoid claims about decarbonisation that are demonstrably untrue.” www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

NEW DATA: Survey shows that heat pump owners are extremely satisfied. Nine out of ten property owners in Germany are (very) satisfied with their heat pump. Survey commissioned by Vaillant known in particular for their gas boilers. www.vaillant-group.com/news-stories...

When Badenoch says things that are simply false is she lying, is she unaware, or does she regard all the analysis and reports she claims do not exist as so flawed as to be illegitimate? If it’s the latter, what makes her analysis so superior? www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

Council-led warm homes investment was allocated today and we can see changes to the policy may have helped some councils apply independently, which is good. But, the system makes inequality between councils worse; stronger councils get more cash 1/5

Low-interest loans and capital investment in efficiency are two of the best ways government can spend its money. Cutting investment would be a bizarre move for a government chasing growth. www.ft.com/content/8379... #energysky

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

"Net Zero will make us richer" confirm UK expert advisors By 2050: 🚗 Electric cars £700 cheaper to run than petrol 🔥 Heat pumps £750 cheaper to run than gas boilers #energysky #greensky www.thetimes.com/article/368f...

Help us make it to £120k! Minimum investment is only £50 - why not be part of the clean power revolution? #CommunityEnergy #Croydon #Energysky #Greensky @croydoncommenergy.bsky.social

The Climate Change Committee's latest report shows that moving away from fossil fuels in the UK is a huge opportunity. It could lead to energy bills coming down by £716 a year while also reducing our reliance on volatile global gas markets.

UK net zero economy grows 10% in a year, finds new report Sector “critical” to Government’s growth agenda.

NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040 ⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought 💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP) 🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400 🔌Electrification is key THREAD + charts www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/10

Reasons for #UK to aim for Clean Power 2030: #1 - Lower energy bills and deliver long-term energy security #2 - Get to feel superior to the French 👀🔌💡

I still haven't found a better way to explain it than this:- heating your home by burning hydrogen is like feeding your dog exclusively caviar... it just about works but is extremely expensive and quite unhealthy.

6. Another thing government must do is to turn around this chart, and support more homes to upgrade their insulation and heating. One reason energy bills are so painful is our failure on this over the last decade - it must be reversed.

BREAKING: Energy bills rise AGAIN. The soaring price of gas is at the root cause of our rising energy bills. The UK's single biggest gas supplier, Equinor, has made over £140 BILLION in profit since the start of the energy crisis. Their profit, our loss.

Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security #netzero #cimatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great to see the media shining a light on just how much #hydrogen boilers would cost the taxpayer. It's time we ruled them out for good. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...