Which specific local developments are further developed than East Pye, and are competing for the same grid connection, then?

So it's merely petty parochialism, then? Foreigners' money isn't good enough for you, and if that means tackling climate change more slowly, then so be it? Shameful stuff.

New barometer of sentiment in our sector: the number of times that someone has brought up the Serenity Prayer in a work conversation with me, in a professional context:

January 2000 - 31 March 2026: 1 time.

The last 8 days: 3 times.

#energysky
#climate
#HugYourClosestClimateMitigationPerson

Some form of locational marginal pricing in the wholesale market: nodal pricing or zonal pricing #energysky

What do you do? Learn from history.

Successful responses to the 1970s oil crises, were:

massive public messaging on energy-efficient behaviours; &

launching long-term programmes eg Danish heat networks, energy efficiency regs, using the political capital arising from the price shock #energysky

I've seen the insides of both parties. Totally different cultures.

Irish Greens value competence, compromise, coalition, sound policy formation, & minimising the attack surface.

Hopefully, in a few years, with experience & good management, English Greens will get there; it's a long road from here.

Irish Greens have competent legislators: reliable, thoughtful, pragmatic. I was impressed by Brian Leddin, and Marc Ó Cathasaigh showed promise. And they & Eamon Ryan made the coalition work.

There's no one in the English greens of their calibre that I can think of.

But Polanski does make great tv

Engineers (sometimes grid / electrical) in or close to retirement. Ecomodernists. Fossil/nuclear lobbyists.

Decades of that nonsense, even after Czisch et al's 100% renewables studies.

"but inertia" "but not enough land" "but firm capacity" "but dunkelflaute". Lots of buts from talking butts.

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The time for *anything* first, is gone.

It's now: everything, everywhere, all at once.

Energy efficiency & electrification go hand in hand.

Every watt of energy consumption that we eliminate via efficiency, takes us one watt closer to maximal clean electrification.

#energysky

Julia King's caveat applies here even more strongly than usual:
There are three types of liars:
- liars
- damned liars
- battery suppliers

#energysky

No, no, no

Connect as many people to heat networks as viable: 40%+ of homes

Heat pumps for the rest.

This is a *systems* issue. Thinking households only, results in a clusterfuck.

Fabric is for public wellbeing, futureproofs against any AMOC collapse, and good climate mitigation.

#energysky

Maybe, but will it ever be commercially viable?

Dolphy entropy prevails.

Perhaps the only way to do it sensibly, is to keep free jazz 150 million km away, and just harness its energy via pv bebop.

#energysky

I agree with you that "solar is cheaper", at the scale of the individual generator.

@ketanoli.bsky.social is right too, that at the *system* scale, in many climates, big wind reduces total system cost.

Just as, in some places, big hydro reduces total system cost.

#energysky

Never mind the miracle cells, just give us cheap perovskite with a decent life expectancy #energysky

No, it's not. It's just what it says.

That lever marked "cut energy bills":

- Locational Marginal Pricing
- move policy costs from elec to taxation
- tax fossil fuel industries more; subsidise energy efficiency & elec standing charges
- single state purchaser for electricity: break the link between wholesale elec price & gas price

Professor @michaeljgrubb.bsky.social of UCL #energysky

It's the best single indicator of whether the room ventilation is sufficient when occupied. Levels above a few hundred ppm are enough to diminish thinking.

If you wait by the river long enough, you will see... well, not a dam floating past, that's exactly the opposite of what should happen with a dam.

If we want it built, some of us are gonna have to go make it happen.

It's been proposed as a key part of a #supergrid for 20+ years

It would be a source of power & balancing at a wide range of timescales for a vast area. #GregorCzischWasRight

& there is hope that an Africa united in trade and mutual inter-dependence could move to a new era of unity & prosperity

And *that* is why parking maximums and parking-space taxes are necessary

Time to Stop Rolling Dice: Why Bigger is Better in Climate Investments Earlier investments make large-scale emission reductions easier to do over time because their unit costs drop

Hey #energysky please give a warm welcome to energy economist & deep thinker Michael Grubb @michaeljgrubb.bsky.social Prof of Energy & Climate Change at UCL.

Please ask relevant starter-pack owners to add him to their pack of experts worth following.

www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

A battle of wits between two unarmed men

I woke up with an idea for an article on how pseudo-intellectuals are taking up the space in the public discourse that was previously occupied by genuine intellectuals.

Working title: "The Midwit Cuckoos".

I won't get round to writing it, but maybe @robertshrimsley.bsky.social might

Enormous potential, for renewables, rewilding, rainforest, rewetted wetlands.

But the public discourse is impoverished, despite the best efforts of a handful of heroes: @hannahdaly.bsky.social @peterthorne.bsky.social @caugustenborg.bsky.social @thinkorswim.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social

Hi, I guess I'm kind of active. Well, by my own benchmark, at least.

The government's Climate Change Advisory Council were briefed by experts that new data centres would make it very difficult to meet the carbon budgets.

Industry lobbyists span a different story.

Lobbyists carry more weight than experts.

It's profoundly upsetting, frustrating & insulting.

And GB is absolutely going to need heat networks at huge scale, probably 40-50% of dwellings. It would be absurd not to. It's crucial to take a systems-level view here: optimising for one dwelling and then scaling that solution to national level is doomed.

There's been 30 years of research on how to do policy evaluation, since then. Plus a slowly growing realisation that England isn't anywhere near as exceptional as it likes to think it is. And a better understanding of how to (re)shape institutional cultures.

GB *can* do what Denmark did, which is build local capacity in local not-for-profit delivery bodies.

If GB chose to be smart about it, it could buy in expertise from DK and other successful places, to bring their corporate culture & processes.

Or it could reinvent the wheel.