Important thread here on the possibility of scrapping ECO. I would add that when ECO was cut in 2013, 10,000 people lost their jobs. That's more than 3 times as many than Scunthorpe steel works and a whopping 20 times more than Grangemouth oil refinery

Calling all researchers & comms agencies! @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social has 2 tenders to shine a light on local electricity grid operators🕵️‍♀️ beyondfossilfuels.org/about-us/wor... 1️⃣ Struggling for connection: stories of unequal access 2️⃣ The costs of grid connection delays: Quantifying the problem

🚨New polling across 🇮🇪, 🇬🇧, 🇪🇸, 🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 finds: 👉 76% of people believe new data centres should be powered with renewable energy. 👉73% want governments to set clear criteria for energy distribution. Renewables, transparency, & fairness are key for data centres. More: beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...

Electricity grid upgrades are central to Europe's future energy security and competitiveness. To achieve this, it needs to: 1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition. 2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public 🧵1/5

Important new legal analysis for @umwelthilfe.bsky.social concludes that the German government's planned 20GW gas plants is incompatible with EU state aid law ⛔ The Commission must scrutinise this costly fossil hand-out, which would add billions to energy bills. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

⚡ Europe’s clean energy transition can only move as fast as its electricity grids. But outdated regulation and limited oversight are slowing things down. RAP and @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social propose two urgent reforms for national governments to make grids fit for the energy transition.👇

NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries. 📈 As wind and solar grows… 📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc

This is good messaging and we know from the social science that — if it breaks through — it actually hurts far-right parties like Reform. Correct & strategic on multiple dimensions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

👏 @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for exposing the gas rip-off! Gas was just 30% of UK power last year but glas plants set prices 97% of the time. That's how 2 plants made £18m in 3 hrs last winter. Time to stop rigging energy in favour of fossil fuels! www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/greenpe...

In 🇬🇧, 77 long duration storage schemes, totalling 28.7GW, have been identified for a programme to use energy smartly & support energy resilience. Alongside renewables & flexible energy use, this could go a long way towards displacing UK's 37GW gas plant fleet🔋 www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

Amazing work @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social exposing the role that expensive gas plays in setting electricity prices & pushing up bills 👏 “We’re all being ripped off by greedy gas companies & it’s the poorest in society that bear the brunt of sky-high prices.” www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Activists have climbed England’s LARGEST gas power station to demand lower energy bills 🚨 (1/4)

🆕 New research reveals: Britain is a nation of clean-energy enthusiasts

According to Climate Outreach's Britain Talks Climate & Nature 2025 report, renewables already power over half of the UK’s electricity, and more than 85% of people support expanding this progress. [1/4

New analysis from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social shows nearly 1/4 of the average UK energy bill in 2024 went to company profits, not reinvestment. Not only that, shareholders of 🇬🇧's privatised energy companies got at least £70.7bn in dividend payouts from 2010 - 2025. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Good to see journalists critically pursue the approach of German Economics Minister, who is twisting facts to slow down the clean energy transition. "Reiche's focus on gas plants seems out of date. New gas plants would have to be massively subsidized." www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...

Compare the approach of the Spanish prime minister following Palestine protests a la Vuelta a España, to the UK crackdown.. "We have immense respect & profound admiration for a Spanish civil society that mobilizes against injustice & peacefully defends ideas" elpais.com/espana/2025-...

In the US, capacity auction prices - paid via costs passed on to consumers by utilities - are set to soar off the back of rocketing energy demand from data centres. Hardly seems fair that household energy bills will be used to help line the pockets of tech giants. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Love this video from @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on the Great Gas Rip-Off! Earlier this year, @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Fossil Gas Freeloaders league table highlighted Britain as one of the biggest sources of gas plant subsidies in Europe 🤑 beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/06/26/f...

How are gas companies getting away with this?? Ultimately, we all want the same thing: cheaper electricity that doesn’t damage our air or the health of our children and communities. We have the solutions. Now we just need action. Sign the petition to stop the Great Gas Rip-Off --> act.gp/4mcKPAt

Let's be clear: The flood of hatred sloshing across Britain right now is 100% a product of the political and media elite scapegoating minorities for the harms that those elites have visited upon the country.

The German Federal Network Agency has published shaky modelling overlooking clean flexibility to conclude 🇩🇪 needs 22-36GW of new gas plants🤯 Experts note how farcical it is to overlook storage potential, when 500GW storage projects are queuing to connect to the grid www.linkedin.com/posts/carste...

New @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @adambell.bsky.social research finds removing gas plants from the market could reduce household energy bills £1.7bn/ year, & by £3.3bn for businesses. Crazy as Poland & Germany look to massively increase dependence on gas power.. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

1/3 🚩Worrying news: Data centre developers in the UK are asking about linking directly to fossil gas pipelines. 🚩 Turning to fossil gas to power new data centres would undermine the UK’s Clean Power Act and drive up both emissions and electricity bills. www.ft.com/content/7540...

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/...

There is huge potential here for energy bill savings - but only if the UK acts on the recommendations. Heat pumps do come with a higher up-front cost - but maximising running cost savings unlocks more options to finance those upfront costs and deliver long-term savings

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/...

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire It "shows exactly whose interests they serve – and it’s certainly not ordinary people" says @tessakhan.bsky.social‬ www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/r...

Anyone have any updates on the deal between the Commission and the German government on the introduction of a capacity market? @annahbrt.bsky.social @genicotd.bsky.social @nezim.bsky.social?

Cool proposal from Australia shows the potential for DSOs to innovate & use cheap renewables to lower bills. Ausgrid’s pilot aims to harness unused rooftop solar potential - particularly commercial buildings - & ensure benefits go into the local community. www.ausgrid.com.au/About-Us/New...

I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities. I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...

Great news from the UK - with more than 16GW of new renewable capacity (323 projects) given permission to start building during the second quarter of this year. The figure for capacity represents a 195% rise on the same quarter last year ⬆️ www.ft.com/content/926a...

The area burned in Spain by climate-induced wildfires this year is estimated to exceed 344,000 hectares: double the size of London elpais.com/espana/2025-...

¡BASTA YA! Necesitamos un punto de inflexión. Necesitamos erradicar ya el negacionismo de escaños y despachos. Necesitamos que se pongan a trabajar de una maldita vez para encarar esta era como lo que es: una EMERGENCIA CLIMÁTICA Y AMBIENTAL TOTAL, el mayor desafío para la Humanidad en generaciones.

“The fires are the impact of climate change, which is why we must do all we can when it comes to prevention,” says Spanish environment Minister @saraaagesen.bsky.social This must include ending reliance on fossil fuels - & challenging companies delaying action. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Spain is pushing forward anti-blackout reforms by fast-tracking select grid resilience measures via urgent decrees. But more is needed to support communities to produce & benefit from their own renewables and support a fairer energy system. es.greenpeace.org/es/sala-de-p...

The world has warmed by about 1.4C because of #fossilfuel pollution, and Europe has warmed nearly x2 as fast as the global average. The extreme heatwave in Southern Europe is yet another deadly reminder of why phasing out fossil fuels is urgently necessary. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

German energy giant Uniper will slow its clean transition & rely even more on gas – saying this aligns with government goals. Not surprising at all, when the 🇩🇪 gov is looking to tender for a bonanza of gas plants, worth €€ BNs, to be paid via consumers bills www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/...

According to @agoraew.bsky.social, a national roll-out of smart meters could save Germany over €5 bn/year by 2035 💸. But despite the enormous untapped energy bill savings potential from replacing gas with clean flexibility, 🇩🇪 is lagging behind on their deployment. www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

The Iberian blackout exposed more than a fragile grid—it revealed a large-scale problem. With 1,700 GW of clean energy stuck in queues, Europe must unshackle TSOs from fossil-era mandates and invest in modern, flexible grids, writes @julietphillips.bsky.social. beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/08/04/t...

The EU is allegedly looking to approve “significantly more” than half of the 20GW gas plant capacity sought by 🇩🇪 The German gov will pay for this through new energy bill levies, locking households & industry into long-term contracts worth €billions🤑 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

#Gaskraftwerke im Übermaß bauen belastet nicht nur #Klima, sondern auch Verbraucher*innen. Unsere Berechnung zeigte bereits im April, dass Reiches Pläne den #Strompreis um bis zu 1,6 Cent pro kWh erhöhen würden. Deshalb: Erneuerbaren Ausbau fortsetzen statt abwürgen! www.welt.de/politik/deut...

New @ieefainstitute.bsky.social analysis warns Greece may be pursuing a dash for gas power to boost its energy export capacity 🤑 As @thegreentank.bsky.social has warned, consumers will face higher bills if a capacity mechanism is introduced to underpin this expansion. ieefa.org/resources/gr...

No és una guerra, és un genocidi

Despite eyewatering costs of tendering 20GW gas plants (€22-32bn); the German economics minister is confident this will go ahead. "I'm truly relieved by how far we've come in Brussels. The goal is to launch the first tender this year, with significant quantities." bo.de/reiche-beton...

⚠️‼️ 21 mesos de genocidi. Ara Israel també mata de gana al poble palestí. Una fam forçada i imposada a 2,3 milions de persones palestines a Gaza. En 24h: 🔴 19 assassinades per fam 🔴 115 quan intentaven aconseguim menjar Si no és ara, quan? Fem una crida avui al carrer 🇵🇸 📍Plaça Sant Jaume, 20h

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

In the Polish towns of Kleczew and Konin, once powered by coal, the winds of change are blowing— on the walls of public spaces. Silesian artist Karol Kobryń painted two murals that tell the story of a region in #JustTransition — moving away from fossil fuels towards clean, secure, homegrown energy.

This is very bad news. What's more incredible is that EPP could have outbid the far right and didn't. The complacency around the threat posed by the far-right to Europe's climate agenda is shocking. www.politico.eu/article/the-...