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The CCC's estimates of capex and opex in the 7th carbon budget are expressed as the difference between the costs of the Balanced Pathway and a notional baseline level of spending. It's not possible to work out the gross costs of either from the data they released (2/n)
Back in 2023, the Royal Society analysed 37 years of weather data & calculated we would need 123TWh (hydrogen) or 68TWh (electrical) to keep the lights on with a renewables only grid (2/n) 
First up, DESNZ has appointed former shadow energy minister Alan Whitehead to head a review into Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGR). This includes BECCS and DACCS (2/n)
The Government has launched a consultation on its latest cunning wheeze to increase our already crippling energy bills by forcing us to pay for green hydrogen through a new levy on our gas bills (2/n)
The cosy climate consensus began a decade ago when Cameron, Clegg and Ed Miliband (then Labour leader) pledged to work together, effectively taking climate and energy policy out of democratic control (2/n) 
On March 3rd I submitted 3 FOI requests asking for the detailed cost estimates, sensitivity analysis of the impact of using realistic costs of renewables & how they had taken into account our dire economic and social circumstances. (2/n)
When you dig into the detail, electricity bills are up by £339, from £587 to £894 inc. VAT since April 2019. Of this, Renewables related costs are up £128 - of which network costs +£75, Capacity Market +£12 and subsidies +£40, comprising RO's +£25, CfDs +£11 & FiTs +£4 (2/n)
Back in 2023, the Royal Society produced a report on Long Term Storage and found that we sometimes get back-to-back low wind years that means a renewables heavy grid needs lots of storage to keep the lights on (2/n) 
First, despite whining about the poor take up of heat pumps, as far as we can tell, neither the current nor the prior CEO have heat pumps in their own homes. (2/n)
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First up, we have the Clean Industry Bonus. Effectively an extra bung for wind farm developers to build manufacturing facilities in the UK. But if wind is so cheap, why do they need extra subsidies at all. Up to £27m is on offer per GW of installed capacity. (2/n)
The Government wants EPCs to act as an enabling tool to improve the energy performance of buildings, to support their Clean Power 2030 plan that called for residential electricity use to fall be 20% by 2030 (2/n) 
Emma Pinchbeck managed to chirp the word "cheap" (or its derivatives) 17 times when giving evidence before the Scottish Affairs Committee claiming renewables are a cheaper technology (2/n) 
Yesterday world leading offshore wind developer Orsted made an announcement to cut its investment plan out to 2030 by 25%. (2/n)
US energy use per person is some 2.7X that of the US and has been falling, but at a slower rate than the UK. Since the 2008 CCA, UK energy use per capita has fallen 31%, while US has fallen 11% (2/n) 
The bulk of the money, £1.9bn, goes to "cheap" offshore wind with most of the rest, nearly £400m, to some form of biomass (aka burning trees) & waste incineration. Onshore wind got £73m & solar just over £1m. (2/n)
NESO calculate operating margin by adding all the available generating capacity & applying a de-rating factor to each technology to arrive at a re-rated capacity. They compare this with an estimate of peak demand & the difference is the De-rated Margin of 5.2GW (2/n) 
The name of the Bill sounds innocuous enough: who could possibly oppose measures to protect and enhance nature? But when you dig into the detail, the Bill starts to look very sinister indeed (2/n)
On Monday, Red Ed was boasting wind power was our biggest source of electricity in 2024 and this was a "huge moment on our journey away from energy insecurity". (2/n) 