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It would create regulatory uncertainty, and clearly will have real economic impact on some players in the electricity market and change their future revenue. If there is a market change then there will be winners and losers (unless Govt wants to compensate the losers which is unlikely)

That means moving fast and breaking things which is not what the energy sector likes. But as Reform UK showed, yesterday there is now a credible and less palatable alternative for the energy sector.

You'd have thunk. But the official language around REMA and next steps is full of aspiration, but is vague and long term. Govt needs decisive action that will have an impact in 2 years to give time for billpayers to notice.

The fact that the Govt seems to think of gas prices and charging reform as a technocratic policy issue rather than fundamental politics is bizarre.

If by end of election UK Govt has supported growth of renewables but has failed to tackle underlying energy cost pressures, then Reform UK will point at and conflate these 2 things.

Agree on all your analysis Andrew, but as you know and others are pointing out, that's not the reason behind their action. However, UK Govt needs to be active in addressing cost of gas issues - otherwise renewables looks an expensive project and Govt failing in its commitment to bring bills down.

thanks for the clear explanation Tina

Deciding where to put wind turbines is a sensitive subject but the least helpful way to engage in this discussion is by harking back to a bygone era of ideals that can't be brought back as it never really existed.

Since that time it will have become more intensively farmed, likely losing a lot of character, variety and biodiversity. Roads, towns and villages will have been expanded, and likley noone now objecting to a wind farm will have had anything negative to say about this ecological decline.

I would wager that the landscape here looks little like it did when the Bronte sisters travelled through it.

Adam did a noble attempt to talk about hydrogen lorries vs transmission and I did an attempt to undermine him using cheap humour - that kind of stuff?

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Yes, that would scare most people off. Did you see this from Gniewomir: www.linkedin.com/posts/gniewo...

Aha - sow doubt in people's minds. "If you chose hydrogen trucks instead of the transmission line, you will only need to deal with 11 trucks passing your house each day.... oh hang on, make that 22 trucks"

Thanks for being the person who actually did the maths. My initial reaction is that isn't a done deal for what people would prefer.

Fiendish. They look just like normal middle class female
shoppers going about their business.

Project 2 is the one in the middle of the 3. The only obvious difference is it would have to deal with English and Welsh consenting bodies as it straddles the line between the 2.

The Crown Estate says that the remaining development area "will be progressed through delivery arrangements which will be detailed shortly." It would be good to understand practically what that means.

New frontier for UK offshore wind with leading developers set to deliver new generation of floating windfarms The Crown Estate is an independent commercial business, created by Act of Parliament. We invest in and manage some of the UK’s most important assets, aiming to create significant value beyond financia...

Congratulations to ESB, EdF and Equinor with Celtic Sea leases announced. That's 3GW of the 4.5GW awarded, with an announcement on the final 1.5GW to come. www.thecrownestate.co.uk/news/new-fro...

So my view would be its not a question about overdiagnosis but the way these are then used. A tick box education and health system tends to use these diagnoses as labels and decision points on treatment rather than as useful information.

Most kids with EHCPs simply need better schools and teaching, sometimes in specialist settings. Getting a diagnosis such as for autism or ADHD is critical to understanding more about how they learn.

The Government's response to the growth in need of Education, Health and Care Plans has evolved in 12m from blaming the last Government, to moving to formally restrict access rather than informally through budget restrictions as the last Govt did.

I found this really helpful and I tend to agree with the author's conclusion.

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Offshore wind companies will need to write down their US losses, but the biggest loser from the change is the US itself, not offshore wind.

The US offshore wind pipeline makes up 6% of new projects out to 2030 and 9% out to 2040

But the US wasn't yet a major global wind market, even looking ahead to 2040. So new priority needs to be supporting those in US, while refocusing on accelerating deployment across Europe and Asia, and looking at other new markets.

US offshore wind is forecast to deliver 6GW of new capacity by 2030 and 73GW by 2040

Over on LinkedIn I've posted a blog about the Trump Administrations halt to offshore wind leasing. Bottom line, when we need to accelerate offshore wind everywhere. www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-market-turmoil-from-what-perspective-does-stop-being-maf-smith-ew9gf

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UK steel industry calls for government to buy British in offshore wind push Only 2% of steel used in British offshore wind projects in past five years was UK-made, study finds

LumenEE research underpins this Guardian article on how the UK offshore wind pipeline offers a route to grow UK fabrication and UK steel supply.

Its great to see them working in partnership with Hutchinson Engineering, a UK supplier with a strong offshore wind record.

Breaking into a market like offshore wind is tough. Severfield's challenge now is to use this first experience to grow their footprint and start to become a regular supplier, and a name in the offshore wind market.