OK - I shot my mouth off to @Bankfieldbecky about big ideas for energy policy..

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Energy efficiency is BORING, but new kitchens and bathrooms, bedrooms and interior design is LOVELY.

Would you like this kitchen for £53/month until you move? @BrownSdc reckons my semi detached Energy performing "D" rated home can be taken to EPC C-B for £12,000 ish, saving £639 ish per year.

Imagine that debt can go on my council tax and the scheme is financed through municipal bonds at 2.5% for 25 years.

I wanna do a book thread. Why is this book for you if you work in @beisgovuk @CommonsBEIS @LGANews #localgov @SmartEnergyGB @EnergySysCat @ftenergy #urbanplanning #SmartCities #consulting #energytwitter manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526143372#… It is a new tool box. A way to apply new thinking to the problems of contemporary life. What are we DOING when we change something in a system like #energy #transport #housing or #food?

We are changing a system which makes us free. Free to cook, clean, move and shelter.

FREE TODAY!! bit.ly/2Mip83C Our webinars for all to share from the @EU_H2020 @Proseu_Project The first with @NewAngliaEnergy and @ChristophMazur on Local Electricity business models for #EnergyTransition . @EnergyREV_UK @UKERCHQ @exeterepg @SmartEnergyGB @ETH_EPG What did we learn? We are all tackling similar issues in Europe, looking for solutions to share #energy bottom up. #smartmetering key! #energystorage @EnergySysCat @smartcitiesdive @ICLEI_Europe @c40cities research here: zenodo.org/record/3598667… paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Something exciting! Starting Tuesday next week we are running three informal lunch and learn sessions on our @Proseu_Project finding on #local #energy business models and finance. @EnergyREV_UK @energycities @exeterepg @Rachel_EPG @exeterepg @UKERCHQ @isoutar Lunch and Learn 1: Tuesday next week, - Local electricity models - Dr Steve Hall Unv. Leeds with @NewAngliaEnergy and @ChristophMazur
New business models are emerging which seek to maximize self-consumption of local power:
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#energytwitter New #Businessmodels for #EU prosumers! Local energy trading and self consumption in EU nations. @Proseu_Project @BrownSdc @BaumanInstitute
@https://proseu.eu/sites/default/files/Resources/PROSEU_D4.1_Business%20models%20for%20collective%20prosumers.pdf Disappearing subsidies are driving #innovation across decentralised generation. New ways of trading and sharing local electricity are coming @NewAngliaEnergy @exeterepg @Comm1nrg @Regen_insight @EnergyREV_UK @EnergySysCat @NatureEnergyJnl @energycities @Bankfieldbecky

My writing process... task starts:

"Denial: I cant do this. I dont care if I have done it before, those were flukes, this is too hard." Procrastination: "this is a VERY important time to clean something, or indeed tweet instead of write"

#energytwitter @exeterepg @EnergySysCat @EnergyLeeds @EnergyREV_UK @NatureEnergyJnl continuing our energy #ideology theme for the week, we know ideology is a fundamental determinant of whether and if we legislate for an #energytransition sciencedirect.com/science/articl… So overt questions of regulating energy in capitalism are legit terrain for a partisan empirics of energy research. But are we aware how much we enjoy our own more private ideologies? Reactions to @UKLabour energy policy are fascinating.

I worked with #YouthStrike4Climate this week in Leeds on what needs demanding from politicians and what the conversation might go like. My thoughts for energy only @ExtinctionR @GeorgeMonbiot @powellds @Laurie_L_L @exeterepg @crisortunity @NatureEnergyJnl i am very #GreenNewDeal Come ask a climate researcher from @PriestleyCentre today in leeds at the #YouthStrike4Climate to find out more