Marie Claire Brisbois

Glad to see Green Party Leader Elizabeth May amplifying the demands of the Xinka people to permanently shut down the Escobal mine - owned by Vancouver-based Pan American Silver!

And we are also curious about when the CORE will have a new ombudsperson again, and be given real teeth to do its work.

Governing flexibility: Trust, time and agency in automated demand-side flexibility Aligning electricity demand with renewable energy supply helps lower decarbonisation costs. This can be done through demand-side flexibility (DSF) mar…

Jonathan Mills of DESNZ @biee.org #BIEE2025 conference has noted that the social dynamics behind #flexibility need research.

It's thus a good time to flag Helen Poulter and I's paper on the key role of trust in flexible systems (Helen presenting at 1:15)!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Governing flexibility: Trust, time and agency in automated demand-side flexibility Aligning electricity demand with renewable energy supply helps lower decarbonisation costs. This can be done through demand-side flexibility (DSF) mar…

If we want automated, flexible electricity systems that integrate private assets then we need an energy system that people can trust.

See our latest to understand why we need more attention to people and governance of flexibility.

@edrc-uk.bsky.social

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Solar+storage is so much farther along than you think On how plummeting battery prices make 24/7 solar power a reality today.

Today on Volts: the sun doesn't shine at night, but if you add batteries it might as well! If you're not closely tracking the industry, you're probably not aware of just how cheap solar+storage is getting, and how quickly. I talk with the authors of a new Ember report about the good news.

Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide In a recent review of research on the role of social relations in shaping energy demand, authors documented increasing interest in relational approach…

Our paper “Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide” has won a prize: the Energy Research & Social Science Best Paper Award! You can read it here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... thanks to funding from @ukerc.bsky.social

UK climate opinion maps Explore UK climate opinions by country, region and local authority

My favourite @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social tool for understanding public opinion on climate is now available for the UK! 🇬🇧

Find out how many people in your area are worried about climate change, have experienced its impacts, support action from the government and more. The answers may surprise you!

Compounding injustices can impede a just energy transition - Nature Energy Coal and carbon-intensive regions have lagged behind in socioeconomic development, long before any transition-related structural changes were foreseeable. Acknowledging and tackling the compounding ef...

Now out! Our argument that a "just" transition must address historical and structural inequalities, along with present transition injustices.

With @lukashermwille.bsky.social and many others! @coaltransitions.bsky.social @sussexunibusiness.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stories - The Bennett Institute An industrial complex

Catch our new research published in Nature Energy today how compounding injustices can impede a just energy transition. Benjamin Sovacool @sovacool.bsky.social Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social Mare-Claire Brisbois @mcbrisbois.bsky.social
bennettinstitutesussex.org/stories/a-ju...

Planning change makes heat pump installations easier for homes The rule requiring planning permission if a heat pump is within 1m of a neighbours property has been removed.

This is great news - and would have saved me £400.

Although, having the neighbours informed about our heat pump through the planning system has actually been a really effective way of introducing them to how great it is.

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Group of Energy & Climate MSc students visiting a solar farm.

University of Sussex Energy and Climate Policy MSc students visiting the Meadow Blue community-owned solar PV farm near Chichester today.

Really interesting to see solar powering community benefits across West Sussex! ⚡

Many thanks to Tom Broughton and Anna Glanville-Hearson.

I contributed to this article about how China has just gone and done it on electrification (even if still underpinned by coal for now), while the rest of are still tied up in (fossil-fuel funded) arguments about whether electrification, EVs and heat pumps work.

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Come work with us at @ucl.ac.uk Institute for Sustainable Resources. Looking for a new lecturer in Environmental Policy.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Marie Claire Brisbois during the ITV interview speaking in front of the camera with the University of Sussex campus in the background

🚗⚡ Ending EVs’ vehicle excise duty exemption raises big questions about pollution & the shift to cleaner transport. Yesterday, @mcbrisbois.bsky.social told ITV News Meridian how EV adoption helps cut fossil fuel pollution in cities.

Watch here (interview at 9:30): 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zKW...

Not in the middle of talk. Sorry about that!

A really great @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social annual key note lecture with Dhara Vyas of @energyuk.bsky.social on what's happening and where were going with the UK energy system.

@edrc-uk.bsky.social

Trump and Musk have ushered in a terrible era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it | Julia Steinberger The speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is dizzying, but if we organise resistance now we can stop this, says Julia Steinberger of the University of Lausanne

This is quite good.

We also can't demonise people who support Trump but instead must organise with them. They often reasonably want radical change to broken systems - we need to collectively develop a better version of radical change than the Trump/Musk one.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's gas that is making UK electricity expensive.

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YouTube video by Energy Geographies Research Group EnGRG A Spotlight on... Marie Claire Brisbois

Last week, we caught up with @mcbrisbois.bsky.social from @sussexnrggroup.bsky.social for #IWD! 🚨 We talked motivation, her impactful work with @edrc-uk.bsky.social, and the two must-read papers topping her list right now.📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS8R...

Great to see Trump discover electricity trading and the possibility that it can be switched off on the same day.

entirely unrelatedly, if you think you have enough power over your opponent to force a settlement, you should probably find out if you actually do before trying to

US fossil fuel industry campaigns to kill policies that ban gas in new buildings Oil and gas interests coordinate campaign to stop local and state policies, putting climate at risk, new report shows

InfluenceMap’s latest report analyzes the common playbook used by oil, gas & utilities to delay building electrification.

It shows how policies & public discourse were targeted by regionally tailored industry talking points - in the US, Australia and the EU.

Read more in @theguardian.com ⬇️

Saying goodbye to our gas connection today. It's @octopus.energy #heatpump install time!

Power lines Labour must embrace community ownership to achieve net zero.

Some incisive quotes from our main man
@fraserjfstewart.bsky.social about how Labour must embrace community ownership to achieve net zero.

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📢 Join @exeter.ac.uk 's C3DS, @metoffice.bsky.social
and Carbon Brief for a panel discussion on how the media covers climate change.

📅 Wed, 12 March 2025
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📍 University of Exeter (with an online attendance option)

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just looking to start with what we have...but party politics certainly could do with a shake up

It’s time for climate populism As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.

This @carolinelucas.bsky.social piece on climate policy that speaks to the experiences of people is exactly on point.

Give me a party that tackles climate change by tackling inequality and I am on board. If we have to make a new party - I am also on board.

www.newstatesman.com/environment/...

YouTube video by APPG for Fair Elections MPs call for a National Commission for Electoral Reform

🏛️ Cross-party MPs used last week's debate on Proportional Representation to call for a 'National Commission for Electoral Reform'

🚨 First Past the Post isn't working. The public knows it, the parties know it, and MPs know it

🚀 It's time for action, starting with the launch of a National Commission

There's some really fun stuff happening: John Barrett and co on modelling low energy demand scenarios, Tim Foxon on co-benefits, Rebecca Willis on citizen assemblies, my own stuff on creating political feasibility. Fingers crossed that we're able to shift the dial!

Research for an affordable and secure low energy future Addressing the unique opportunity to realise benefits from energy demand reductions in industry, businesses, transport and homes

Indeed - we have a whole research centre on this www.edrc.ac.uk!

Battle lines drawn over 'monstrous' pylons and solar farm 'wastelands' Are solar panel fields and giant pylons the price of energy decarbonisation by 2030? - Panorama investigates.

In 2009, the Ontario government also tried to force the renewable energy transition through and it helped destroy the incumbent party and set energy progress back by years.

We also have EU research showing that force creates massive delays - we can do this better.

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

Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ...

I've just signed this to try to limit the influence of the very wealthy on UK politics.

Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...