I haven't been through the Winser Review in detail (cos Summer) but immediate impression is that it's useful in highlighting how public engagement is crucial, even when you choose a pathway - offshore wind - explicitly because it ostensibly avoids having to deal with people. 2/ Public discussions around new infra should take place the context of net zero, so any new information campaign on infrastructure - as suggested by Winser - could be a waste of time if it is at odds with a coherent government narrative (currently lacking obvs) on net zero.

One thing I don’t think is acknowledged enough is how ACCELERATION towards decarbonisation is a profoundly different challenge for policymakers than simply doing things faster. As @JochenMarkard and others have pointed out, acceleration implies: ...Innovating across systems: doing lots in lots of areas, but also, focusing on things that enable complementarity between low carbon technologies. This includes digitalisation but also business models/tariffs to make adopting multiple technologies make sense...

For the electrification of heat and transport to make sense, we need also to keep an eye on progress towards decarbonising power. Today's @CommonsBTC report is therefore a must read for anyone bothered about reaching net zero... First off, it's pretty clear we need to move faster:

"At the current pace of change, the UK is set to fail to hit its target of decarbonising the power sector by 2035. This in turn will fundamentally undermine our ability to hit net zero by 2050"

The energy price crisis is an energy demand crisis is an energy efficiency crisis. Clear-headed advice in today's letter from @theCCCuk to @hmtreasury highlighting that...

https://twitter.com/ChiefExecCCC/status/1590298361378525185

1. It's too late to achieve widespread improvements in building fabric for this winter

2. There are many small changes that could make a meaningful contribution. There is a super handy list of potential measures:

Smart local energy system projects are important parts of the UK’s decarbonisation strategy.

But how do smart local energy system projects engage the public?

Here’s a new (open access) paper exploring just this…

doi.org/10.1016/j.enpo… The context:

Public engagement is a critical aspect of energy system transformation – as highlighted in the recent @HLEnviroClimate report on behaviour change:

committees.parliament.uk/publications/3…

What are the 4Ds of energy system transformation, where did they come from, and why do they matter? Very excited to see this new Perspective published in Energy Research and Social Science: doi.org/10.1016/j.erss… 1. The notion of the 3Ds is shorthand for 3 key trends: decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation. Other actors talk about the 4Ds (3Ds + democratisation). I argue here that such D frames are important analytical frames for actors to make sense of energy system change.