Amanda Grimm

Great role at another great organisation!

"Greenpeace UK published a report setting out how the government could save households and businesses £5.1 billion a year on their energy bills, by removing gas-fired power plants from the wholesale electricity to stop gas from setting prices." www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/greenpe...

This is why we need to price electricity differently and stop pegging it to the wholesale price of gas. Especially in Scotland where most of our electricity comes from renewables!

Renewables produce much cheaper electricity, but we're not feeling the benefit. The wholesale market needs transformed

Interested? Help us urge our politicians to support more community power 👉 communityenergy.scot/manifesto-fo...

Two people sit at a round table. Water bottles in the foreground. A branded banner on the left. A woman with long white hair is speaking, in front of a big presentation screen.

Four people in the middle of the shot are sitting down, facing other people sitting facing away from the camera. Two of the people facing away from the camera are men with white hair. The people facing towards the camera are younger. There is a presentation screen behind them with a blue background, in front of an aubergine wall.

Three people are sitting on chairs on the right side of the shot. A presentation screen is to the left, and a woman in a chair is gesturing back towards it. A man sits on a chair facing away from the camera. The wall behind the screen is aubergine coloured. The screen has a map on it.

My highlights from @cescotland.bsky.social conference:
> @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social urging: "take back the power" ⚡
> Youth panellist on working in community energy: "being part of something that helps my neighbours, my friends, the people around me"
> @ellengrunewald.bsky.social on heat networks!

Great to have the First Minister @johnswinney.bsky.social come out to the Mass Climate Lobby.

Now Scottish Government must turn words into action and use the Climate Plan to make homes warmer, bills cheaper, transport greener.

Public money must support those who are struggling, not tech bros!

Mark meeting with constituents in a large hall.

Mark meeting with constituents in a large hall.

Mark meeting with constituents in a large hall.

Great to hear from people across Mid Scotland and Fife on a range of issues including housing stock, protecting the environment for the next generation, solar on new homes, farming and land management, marine protected areas and much more.

Thanks to @sccscot.bsky.social for organising a great event

Thank you @lornaslater.bsky.social for coming to meet with constituents today! We covered:
🌻 Nature restoration
🌊 Flood prevention
💰 Funding for community action
🛩 Make polluters pay

Please keep pushing for a strong Climate Plan that reduces inequality & improves lives! ##ActNowChangeForever

Graphic reads: Get ready for Scotland's mass climate lobby. Act now change forever.

I'm looking forward to hearing from lots of my constituents this afternoon at the @sccscot.bsky.social mass lobby. Lots of interesting discussions to be had about the climate plan, energy, transport and nature & agriculture.

A woman stands behind a stall with a teal banner. Two pull up banners are on her left. There is a glass wall behind her, and green vegetation.

4 people are on a stage. One woman is standing and holding a mic, behind a podium. Projected on the wall it says "Scotland Mass Climate Lobby".

Great to be at Scotland's Mass Climate Lobby today, with over 500 other concerned constituents!

Looking forward to meeting with MSPs including my constituency MSP @colinbeattiemsp.bsky.social

#ActNowChangeForever
@sccscot.bsky.social @cescotland.bsky.social

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

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

Will this convince the UK Government to stop the flow of weapons components to Israel?

Looking forward to this Mass Climate Lobby!

I'll be representing @cescotland.bsky.social at the stalls, and also as a constituent for a meeting with Lothian MSPs.

There will be over 500 members of the public there, who all feel strongly about climate action. 🔥⛈️🌲🌊 Hope we get a good MSP turnout!

Also thanks to @shona-mcintosh.bsky.social for being such an advocate of the East Lothian Heat project!

A man stands in front of two big screens with presentation slides on them. There are several people sitting in chairs facing him, some are talking. There is a wood panelled ceiling and wooden walls.

A woman presents slides on a big screen. The slide shows a map of a coastal area, with yellow and white text boxes on it.

A man stands in front of a presentation screen and holds a mic, speaking to the audience. The slide shows a modern glass building with trees inside and out. Black text at the top says 'Political driver: using black bin waste to keep vulnerable people warm.'

Three women stand and smile at the camera. There are a few people talking behind them, in front of pull-up banners which are mainly green.

Brilliant event yesterday on Not-for-Profit heat networks! There is real desire for heating systems run in the public interest. Thanks to @sarahboyack.bsky.social MSP for attending.

For more info see my post here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
@ellengrunewald.bsky.social @edinbric.bsky.social

Rachel Reeves tells private equity bosses she plans to shut down more regulators Chancellor stopped short of saying which regulators were in government’s crosshairs

Very concerning. Regulators protect our environment, for all of us. This prioritises the few, again.

Reeves said the Dept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, now led by former City minister, Emma Reynolds was focused on how to facilitate growth rather than find reasons to say no to development

This would be a game-changing policy. Scotland could progressively transfer all renewables into public ownership by transferring assets at end-of-lease to public energy companies (just like Scotland did with ScotRail).

Putting them into community hands would be particularly empowering.

Ask #2 is to use public land to boost community energy. 📈

When new leases are issued for repowering windfarms, community energy companies should have ‘first dibs’.

We could meet the target (👇) by transferring 1/3rd of the renewables on public forestry land into community hands.

🎥 bit.ly/4nc2lpD

Landscape photo with golden colours, with water in the foreground, dark islands with two wind turbines, a low sun shining on the water. White text above says 'Scottish Community Coalition on Energy Manifesto Recommendations'.

📣We’ve published our manifesto recommendations for the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections!

It’s clear that our energy system isn’t working for ordinary people. Communities must have more influence, ownership and feel more benefit from our energy system.

👀👉 communityenergy.scot/manifesto-fo...

Lawyer’s bequest set to fund six new homes in Haddington SIX new homes on a former hospital site could be built using money left to an East Lothian town by a former resident.

This is fascinating. As Cllr @shona-mcintosh.bsky.social says, like something out of a Dicken's novel.

Great that the rent will all go to the Common Good Fund. 💰🏡

www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/2540779...

In Scotland billionaires can get a 100% tax break on their shooting estates, but the poorest are hounded under a council tax debt system four times harsher than England.

For my first FMQ as @scottishgreens.org co-leader I asked John Swinney to support Green plans to put that right.

Great to see @michaelshanksmp.co.uk visiting one of our members Callander Community Hydro this past weekend!

Devastating decision! This will harm the marine environment, endangered wild salmon and other coastal jobs, not to mention the salmon which are essentially factory farmed. 😰

Really looking forward to this!

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.

No refugee underfunded a school.

No refugee closed a hospital.

No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.

We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

Four people on a stage, with a big screen behind them. Three people are sitting down and looking at a person standing at a podium.

Really enjoyed the @dtascotland.bsky.social annual conference!

It brought home the transformative impact of community projects to improve quality of life.

I spoke at a jam-packed session on #communityenergy, with Local Energy Scotland, @democraticfinance.bsky.social and Arran Community Renewables.

On Not Surrendering in Advance (Or At Any Point Thereafter) There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...

Another excellent article by Rebecca Solnit that should cheer and inspire.

Hope...is not the same as...willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed."

And no more Scottish Enterprise funding going to arms companies?

Job Vacancies - Community Energy Scotland Careers & Opportunities

Community Energy Scotland are hiring a new Policy Manager!
communityenergy.scot/news/job-vac...

This is a great opportunity for an experienced policy person to lead on a very exciting, topical and busy policy area - which I believe is key to mitigating climate change in a socially just way!

The rest of the UK is finally catching up with Scotland on this. 😜

So. depressing.