Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

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

Conversation with Bill McKibben, whose new book *Here Comes the Sun* is just coming out. www.douglewin.com/p/here-comes... One take-away: solar panels produce 28x as much electricity per acre than biofuel (ethanol).

I did that.⤵️ The Telegraph’s figures for how many #solar #solarsky panels needed by 2035 were an order of magnitude out, due to some frankly silly maths that assumed solar farms are a flat sea of glass. Breaking news: they aren’t.

Yes climate change is already killing people www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Delighted to say that the UK's government-industry Solar Roadmap was published this morning, describing dozens of practical measures to boost the supply of cheaper, greener power, deliver new industries and create skilled jobs. #solarsky #solarenergy solarenergyuk.org/news/roadmap... #solarenergy

Now this is what I like to see. Ed Miliband said: “We’re going to win this fight... The forces that oppose #netzero will have to reckon not just with the government. They will have to reckon with all these companies that are creating jobs.” 💪☀️🔋⚡ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

⚡Offshore just leveled up 🌊☀️ World’s first offshore wind-solar hybrid kicks off in the Dutch North Sea . 🔗Wind + solar = 5x output ⚓Anchors deployed 🏗️Shell & Eneco joint project We track the #EnergyTransition — end to end. See how at enkiai.com #Energy #CleanTech

Brilliant! The Labour government has issued over £630m to schools, hospitals, and other public buildings for measures including heat pumps, solar panels, insulation and double glazing. It is estimated measures like this will save the public sector around £650m a year over the next 12 years. 1/3

Thames Water has its final legal appeal to allow its £3bn loan tomorrow (at 10% interest that billpayers will pay) If it gets it, it goes bankrupt in 6 months anyway, and you will have to pay it all If it doesn't it goes bankrupt tomorrow RT if Thames Water needs to die

Some very good news for a change: the % of new English homes fitted with solar panels has leapt up hugely, rising from 13% in the last three months of 2023 to 42% in Q4 last year. Likely over half the market now. Story made the Times on Saturday. #solar #solarsky solarenergyuk.org/news/more-th...

Energy security is an essential part of our overall European security. Cutting our dependence on expensive, imported gas, via GB Energy, is another way to diminish Putin's power and revenues. Hope someone is making that case in the UK Treasury too. www.ft.com/content/8379...

I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤️ if you do, too.

My general sense that humanity is, to a reasonable approximation, progressing has really taken a knock of late.

#Solar has taken off in US red states. #Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic. #climate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why does the phrase “sic semper tyrannis” come to mind?

Successful rollout of solar panels could lift 1.2 million people in UK out of fuel poverty, & help decarbonise the UK’s electricity system In fuel-poor households savings from rooftop solar panels could reduce energy bills by 24% say @resfoundation.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm really proud to have put this release together. There is a lot of military history in my family - two army captains, one of which knew the survivors of Rorke's Drift, Army Air Corps, Royal Marines, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, etc. #solarsky solarenergyuk.org/news/from-se...

There's some funny business going on outside my house - a fox screaming and a tawny owl hooting back. Never heard that before.

👀A 1.4GW/3.1GWh battery energy storage system - bigger capacity than anything in the UK and one of the largest in Europe - is going to be built in Doncaster. #energysky

"Whatever the disinformation, the misinformation, the truth is that climate action is essential for our national self interest and is supported by the British people," says UK energy secretary Ed Miliband #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Ed Miliband has approved all of six nationally-significant scale #solarfarms thus far and imagine the counterfactual: refusing a project that would help fulfil manifesto commitments just because of the donation. This is desperate stuff from the Conservatives.

1984 vibes

Well, that was two soggy magpies and a damp wood pigeon. Oh well. #biggardenbirdwatch

I’m doing the #biggardenbirdwatch and for the first time I am odds-on to see nothing at all ☹️ as the weather is so foul.

Wonderful story. Deservedly on the front page.

some ways to generate electricity A) use sunlight to drive photosynthesis in plants, let plants die, wait ~100 million years, dig up fossilized plants, burn plants, use heat to boil water, use steam to drive a rotating turbine, use generator to make electrons B) use sunlight to make electrons

Writers, musicians, actors & other creators strongly oppose upending copyright law to favour AI companies, as suggested in the UK's AI Opportunities Action Plan. As Kate Mosse says, seeking economic growth "cannot be on the basis of theft of our work". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is an absolute magnus opus on the Labour Government's Clean Power Mission from @e3g.bsky.social Here's a run down of the key findings and recommendations, which have massive implications for where we take clean energy in the UK. 1/9 www.e3g.org/publications...

An amusing little story from over the Pond. I wonder how many Brits of similar sort have gone solar, too? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

After rather more to-and-fro than I would have liked, I got the Telegraph to conduct some major surgery on its most ludicrous story about solar farms thus far. Though 100m panels (corrected down from 1bn) by 2035 still sounds a lot, it’s only about 11 days of global solar panel production. Details ⤵️

The start of 2025 means it is precisely 25 years until net zero targets in the UK, EU, US, etc fall due. Every quarter now represents one per cent of the available time to fully decarbonise industrialised economies. Happy New Year! www.businessgreen.com/news/4392880...

Elon Musk has, and should have, absolutely nothing to do with British Politics. Repost if you agree.

Well, I guess that's what they call a feedback loop. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Very useful summary, solar takes up 0.1% of UK land surface but is contributing to an increasingly decarbonised electricity supply.

My summary of last year is now on Solar Power Portal. www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/2024-the-bes...

🚨 Recent paper by @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social et al. show that the 2022 oil & gas crisis resulted in record industry profits at the expense of the clean energy transition, and worsened inflation and inequality as the majority of gains went to the wealthiest 1%. peri.umass.edu?view=article...

The most hopeful chart in the world - and its evil twin edconway.substack.com/p/the-most-h...

Will solar PV soon be the cheapest source of electricity in most places around the world? This @naturecomms.bsky.social paper says yes. Most surprisingly this is AFTER including short- and long-term storage costs for renewable energy sources. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is foul.

So proud to reveal this video I helped produce on farmers' views of #solarenergy #solarfarms. "I think when you speak to the majority of farmers that are involved with #solar, everyone’s of the same opinion: it’s allowing you to become a better farmer,” said one. www.youtube.com/watch?si=VUQ...

Energy organizations, a new starter pack! Find organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, dedicated to energy, here on Bluesky. Please share and suggest additional accounts to be included. There's room for a couple more ;) go.bsky.app/L6TC36e

An absolutely shocking interview from @chemtrust.bsky.social. “The impact of #PFAS on the immune system was much stronger than the impact of PCBs: for every doubling of PFAS exposure at the age of 5, the vaccine antibodies were reduced by 50% at the age of 7.” www.linkedin.com/pulse/toxicf...

🌞 UK solar smashing targets! Current capacity heading to 20GW by year-end w/ 180k+ new installations. "The industry persistently exceeds expectations & will continue to do so" - @chrishewett.bsky.social . Read more on the exciting developments ahead 👇 solarenergyuk.org/news/solar-s...

@g0ktw.bsky.social Hi John. Just noticed the follow. Did you know my father John Simkins G8IYS?

Well, who would have thought that the industry that knew about the impacts of climate change for decades but still kept schtum about it would tell a few porkie pies about methane emissions missions? I’m stunned, I tell ya.

Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back? Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

I have two degrees and once came awfully, horribly close to being homeless. I had an extremely rare reaction to medication that landed me incoherent, hospitalised, jobless and far from family and friends 21 years ago. Presumption is a hell of a drug.

Yeah, wrong comic universe, but going from Tony Stark to Victor von Doom is *quite* a character arc.