There are two regional grids in Sco. Neither is the most expensive region in the GB which is North Wales and Mersey

There is a benefit locally. Direct and indirect employment.

Regional costs reflect the costs of the local grid. It is understandingly expensive to manage a long ruralish grid in eg N Sco dividing costs between a smaller population than highly dense & high population London

Its not bonkers. The value/cost to the grid of those locations is very different

'26 is largely unsubsidised domestic or where it is CFD pre election. Won't start to see the big projects that have had approval under labour for a bit yet.

The mess in the grid Q is not helping but that will pass eventually

Great to see that the National Soil Map will finally be made open data! www.cranfield.ac.uk/press/news-2...

This is a crucial dataset that was generated under public contract, but remained proprietary for far too long. I've called for its release since 2016! - www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-so...

Yes, but also wrt your 🔗 "Neso data ...only cover Great Britain and not Northern Ireland, which has its own electricity transmission system operator."

Ire has a dirtier grid so UK numbers are worse than GB numbers.

Well if they are spending on Rs not certificates that is of course better though it still doesn't change the kWh mix you actually get

When you buy a kWh you get the same kWh mix regardless of who your supplier is. A rapidly decarbonising kWh but the same one regardless.

Solar on the other hand is a known known.

I struggle to see why the Dems have any interest in this. They would be negotiating at a position of maximum weakness pre mid terms

Even afterwards you have to assume Trump can still find ways to obstruct W/S and Dems will have conceded huge ground on Gas now protected into a new presidency

(Local - Eng) But even with ~27% of new electric a long way to go.

H2 🚌 was a bad decision, and it was a bad decision with foresight not hindsight. This is not an energy transition outrunning its own ambitions tale but a bad solutions being funded for the wrong reasons and with insufficient scrutiny + analysis by decision makers tale

Comparing fuel pumps to electric vehicle public chargers

There are now almost twice as many public electric car charging points in the UK as there are petrol/diesel fuel pumps, a government analysis has found.

Obviously it's not a perfect like-for-like comparison given recharging/fuelling times, but symbolically important.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Whatever the intention, when they answer like they did, it looks like evasion with almost an implication that they don't have a good answer (which they do & could have made as your linked CB does)

The ministerial answer was awful 😩

So MP @bromsgrovebradley.bsky.social wants to know about the CO2 impact of Chinese clean-tech manufacturing, having just asked a Q in parliament

Which is lucky, cos we published detailed analysis on this last year: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% (inc UK)

Heaven is a lot rougher than you thought

1/8 🇪🇺 Europe keeps waiting for the natural gas market to stabilise.

The market keeps proving that stability is a myth. 🧵👇

2025 data quietly released by EPA shows harmful increases in dangerous air pollution attributable to Trump, personally, with 6 TX power plants that Trump exempted from stronger safeguards, for example, experiencing an astonishing 48% increase in sulfur-dioxide emissions collectively in 2025. 1/

Some is Rs trapped behind boundary constraints beyond various thresholds

Absolutely. Smart Ms, smart appliances, smart charging for EVs/Bess & HPs. In many cases these will be end up synced within your home, aggregated & controlled by your supplier

ToU tariffs are single digits % in GB still 😩

You need xtra demand to absorb huge volumes of ⚡ coming online & to share the £ of the needed grid upgrades across more units of ⚡

In term of peak. Its a bit of a red herring. Its already fairly easy to use smart tech to manage such loads & w smart rules incoming only going to get easier

Unless less there is a good excuse running a HP on the price cap is a crazy thing to do.

The seagull is ofc taking it easy to let the swordfish keep up

They absolutely won't

Unless you are unusually located or putting up multiple WTs or beyond certain heights an EIA is unlikely to apply. And the latter two is moving quickly into commercial not private individuals.

There was no onshore ban in the UK, it was in England and that was lifted in 2024.

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

"The water, super-heated by rocks, will help drive turbines to generate electricity for 10,000 homes, but will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of lithium"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Any sense in the room on where the Zenobē LDES litigation would go?

Granted NESO had a hospital pass of a problem

Idk if its just misjudgment or fear of litigation but its all a bit surreal.

A moving stairway leading to an airplane door in Trondheim, Norway. The stairway walls are covered with solar PV panels.

Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.

a close up of a red parrot with a yellow beak looking at the camera ALT: a close up of a red parrot with a yellow beak looking at the camera

All a bit

NESO: We shall give you an offer.
DNOs:

Sure but we can match that boundary a long way short of nameplate. But add Seagreen if you want to get closer to the typical %

Viking is the only 'onshore' its really island wind but ymmv but wd be a higher than 30% assuming it wasn't curtailed which it v often is.