Renewablees (and other clean sources) could help provide energy security, lower costs and provide UK employment. You don;t need to justify them via green arguments (even though you should also).
Last week Wind contributed to the majority of GB power on 6 out of 7 days.
Electricity generation by fuel, GB (EWS), to 17th Apr 2026
Wind contributed most power on 6 out of 7 days.
@WolframResearch notebook here:
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Data @neso_energy
Easter weekend above and below water.
#NSW #CookIsland #CudgenCreek #FingalHead #SixOnSaturday
Electricity generation by fuel, UK, week 10th Apr 2026
Solar + Wind produced over 270% more electricity than Gas.
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Data @neso_energy
Yep, the Pope must be plain wrong if he doesn't support a war of America's choice that killed over a hundred school children on day one.
Even if there is such a doctrine it doesn't apply to this chaotically justified war by the increasingly isolated regime in the USA.
I was interviewed by N-TV on UK power prices, the article has reportedly reached 200,000+ readers, clearly a topic of huge interest.
Gas still sets prices >90% of time today making electricity expensive.
But this is changing. NESO expects this to fall to ~15% by 2030.
www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/D...
#SixOnSaturday with undersea views.
Good Friday snorkelling with Wrecks, Coral and Wobbegong,
currents were speedy and a little choppy on the surface.
#MortonIsland #Tangalooma #Queensland
Electricity generation by fuel, UK, week 3rd Apr 2026
Nuclear ramped up to highest YTD on 3rd
Solar + Wind over 60% on the 28th.
UK energy security increases as fossil fuels decline.
@WolframResearch notebook here:
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Data @neso_energy
Good Friday snorkelling at Tangalooma, Morton Island, QLD.
Sunset on Saturday at Wommin Bay NSW, after a great day snorkeling at Cudgen Creek. Tomorrow's destination is Cook Island on the right in the rain shower.
Snorkeling day at Moreton Island for a #bluefriday
Both are uncertain. But cats are epistemically uncertain (we could know it by looking), the oil price is aleatorically uncertain (we can't know it until it happens).
Either/any uncertainty can be managed by having options (ie unfragility) e.g. australian oil refineries and overseas refineries.
Electricity generation by fuel, UK, week 27th Mar 2026
Solar > Wind for second time this year on 21st
Wind variability challenging, multiple sources filled the dunkelflaute
@WolframResearch notebook here:
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Data @neso_energy
How are our pensions benefiting from the USA's "special operation"?
Over the last month not well at all, unless you mainly invested in Oil&Gas companies and Netflix.
Or a small British company that makes low-power CPUs for many navigation applications...
#SixOnSaturday Trees and Waterfalls in the Bunya Mountains.
#Queensland #Australia
You don't need to be an environmentalist to support renewables:
-renewable generation costs are lower.
-renewables employ people in the UK in many local jobs.
-the UK is running out of fossil fuels, even new licenses cannot get around the very limited commercially viable deposits in UK waters.
Electricity generation by fuel, UK, week 20th Mar 2026
Solar > Gas for only time this year.
When Wind stops: UK multi-fuel resilience kicks in.
UK this week used half the Gas and no Coal cf to 2011
@WolframResearch notebook here:
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Data @neso_energy
#TuesdayRed #TuesdayGreen
Data Visualization quiz (non-Hanzi/non-Kanji readers only!):
Which rice cooker is ready: the green one or the red one?
A real-life moment at the Tanglang City Mall from our visit to Shenzhen at the weekend.
#SixOnSaturday
Burrowing wasps among the sounds and views on the summit trail to Mount Kiangarow, the highest peak in the Bunya Mountains.
An easy hike near @thebunyas mountain tavern and their tasty dinning.
His argument is unpatriotic:
1) Renewable generation is by far the cheapest for the UK.
2) Renewables provide sovereign energy security.
3) Renewables support at least 50,000 UK jobs.
There may be an installation cost, but it is worthwhile to avoid endless fossil fuel crises and foreign control.
The more green energy we build overseas the less we depend on fossil fuels, the more local jobs we have, the better our sovereign energy security.
Even GCC recognise this, Saudi Arabia is ranked 1st globally in renewable energy production growth.
The problem in the world is not green energy...
Not developing renewables is the threat, you need something to replace fossil fuels. But even then you do need something in place for balancing - renewables have gaps.
The more renewables the less fossil fuels, the stronger sovereign energy security, plus more local jobs.
Can Australia do better with and for research?
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Almost certainly yes, it funds research at a lower rate than the OECD average, it ties up researchers' time in overly complex funding bids, it doesn't fully fund research costs demanding cross-subsidy.
Electricity generation by fuel, UK, week 13th Mar 2026
YTD high for Wind + Solar this week.
Can we rely on Gas?
Not in North Sea: UK + Norway reserves running down.
Overseas supply is highly insecure.
@WolframResearch notebook here:
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Data @neso_energy
Here is one that fell on the path (luckily before I got there!) next to my phone for scale. They were all around - even on the roads.
The Bunya nuts inside are supposed to be tasty, chestnut like, and a favourite seasonal food for the local Murri people for thousands of years.
#SixOnSaturday: bucolic trail in the Bunya Mountains
Including the two most dangerous living things I have met in Aus
Bunya Pine Cone: 10kg falling from 40m
Stinging Tree: giant nettle tree and way, way more painful
Start at the hospitable Bunya Mountains Tavern
#Queensland
Electricity generation by fuel, UK, week to 6th March 2026
High and low ytd for Gas use this week.
Are we using more Gas now than 15 years ago?
Some days yes, overall definitely not.
@WolframResearch notebook here:
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Data @neso_energy
Epic gas price increases for US consumers (petrol at the pump): 15% in one week.
Current Avg. $3.413
Week Ago Avg. $2.982
Data: @AAAnews
#SixOnSaturday sounds on the trail to Kinbombi Falls.
The falls are close to Gympie, and very handy for the excellent @goomericafe
#Thursday #Green
Self portrait, on the trail down to Kinbombi Falls.
#Kinbombi #Queensland #Australia
