Juliet Phillips

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
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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But outdated regulation and limited oversight are slowing things down.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

Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband Exclusive: Energy secretary will hit out at the Tory and Reform ‘culture war’ and unveil target of 400,000 new jobs in clean energy

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...

Greenpeace activists scale power station’s 75-metre chimney stacks to protest ‘The Great Gas Rip-Off’ - Greenpeace UK Campaigners demand energy reforms to stop expensive gas from setting electricity prices and pushing up bills.

👏 @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...

‘Super battery’ schemes will store green power and save consumers money – Ofgem The regulator announced 77 long duration energy storage projects progressing to the final assessment stage of a ‘cap and floor’ support scheme.

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...

Fossil Gas Freeloaders: Beyond Fossil Fuels exposes the utilities benefiting from European “capacity market” subsidies Analysis by Beyond Fossil Fuels reveals the energy companies that have received the highest value of European “capacity market” contracts for gas power plants, owned either directly or via subsidiary ...

The Nottinghamshire gas plant they climbed is owned by German energy giant RWE - who has raked in over £1BN of 'capacity market' gas plant contracts, paid for via British energy bills.

RWE is now lobbying for similar mechanisms to be set up in Germany..
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/06/26/f...

Green protesters scale chimney stacks at Nottinghamshire gas-fired power station Greenpeace said the action is to call for energy market reforms that would prevent volatile gas prices setting electricity prices.

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...

Two climbers standing at the top of a massive power plant chimney, holding a banner that says "Great gas rip-off now on!"

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Activists have climbed England’s LARGEST gas power station to demand lower energy bills 🚨

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An image of a wind farm against a blue sky with clouds. A caption reads “NEW RESEARCH REVEALS: BRITAIN IS A NATION OF CLEAN-ENERGY ENTHUSIASTS”

🆕 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.

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‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders Analysis reveals £416 of average bill of £1,719 taken as pre-tax profits by the major energy industries last year, rather than being reinvested

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-...

Soaring US power auction prices set to spur new projects Price jumps in several U.S. capacity markets signal greater revenue opportunities for power plant developers as AI demand squeezes the market and increases energy costs for consumers.

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.

Der Versorgungssicherheitsbericht der Bundesnetzagentur lässt mich fassungslos zurück. Warum? Die BNetzA hat darauf verzichtet, die Batteriegroßspeicher zu modellieren. Was ist aber ein… | Carsten Pfe... Der Versorgungssicherheitsbericht der Bundesnetzagentur lässt mich fassungslos zurück. Warum? Die BNetzA hat darauf verzichtet, die Batteriegroßspeicher zu modellieren. Was ist aber ein Versorgungssic...

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...

Energy users ‘could save £5bn a year’ if gas plants are removed from market Former energy tsar suggests the ‘radical step’ as one of the few options the government has for cutting bills

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...

Data centres look to tap UK gas pipelines to meet power demands Official enquiries about grid connection suggest need for speedy energy access will support fossil fuel use

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...

Heat pumps could halve heating bills with energy system reform, study finds Steps to make electricity cheaper, such as ending levies, could transform prospects for pumps, thinktank shows

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

Heat pumps could halve heating bills with energy system reform, study finds Steps to make electricity cheaper, such as ending levies, could transform prospects for pumps, thinktank shows

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/...

Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor 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, DeSmog can reveal. Andrea Jenkyns, Reform’s mayor in t...

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...

YouTube video by Zoe Gardner ENOUGH of the BBC legitimising anti-asylum protests!

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...

@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social research with @ember-energy.org & @e3g.bsky.social found the UK has the longest queue of renewables projects waiting to connect in Europe.

Unlocking this gridlock will be key for achieving the 2030 clean power mission.
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