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dangrey.bsky.social
Energy and transitioning from fossil fuels. Complex issues I try to shine a light on. Ex-UKAEA and Met Office. Occasionally politics Based in Exeter, UK
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EDF is losing money on Hinkley Point C and can't get investors for Sizewell C, so the French government is asking for the British government to take money from Brits to finance them. As EDF is state-owned, it's currently French taxpayers who are on the hook.

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An important warm spell will sweep NW Europe with temperatures expected to reach up to 28C in England. Monthly records of April highest temperatures are likely to fall specially in NE England;albeit the national record of 29.4C from April 1949 is likely to resist the "attack".

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Today I am paying -31p to charge my car and that is pretty awesome

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BBC was out of its tree to block Evan Davis from doing his little heat pumps podcast yet they broadcast Top Gear for decades. But wouldn't it be awful if we all started watching his podcast now 😄 link below

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Up to 3 GW of green hydrogen electrolysers near Aberdeen given "planning permission in principle" – final approval would come from the Scottish government Statera Energy's plant would connect to the 400 kV grid and absorb power from otherwise-constrained Scottish wind farms

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"Wholesale spot power prices across most of continental Europe have more than halved since hitting two-year highs in early 2025, thanks to a sharp retreat in regional natural gas costs which are down by a third since January" Can see this in Octopus Agile with off-peak ⚡ around 16p/kWh

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This morning, Today on BBC Radio 4 @bbcsounds.bsky.social had the Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, on to discuss the costs of energy, among other things. Veteran presenter Justin Webb made a few dodgy claims. Later, @skynewsrss.bsky.social and Wilfred Frost were at it too. Let's examine 🧐

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Radio 4's The World at One #WATO chose instead to interview the BBC climate editor Justin Rowlatt who said why gas doesn't set the marginal price in some countries 👍 (in Germany it's coal) BUT ALSO correctly pointed out that we put "policy costs" 100% on bills while other countries pay them from tax

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The privatised water industry in England works on a cost-plus model. Government says what it wants water companies to do (for decades: less than what was required to improve water quality and drought resilience), the companies say it will cost x, and the regulator (Ofwat) says OK you can charge x+3%

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Omg later in the interview Dale Vince claims "other countries don't link the price of their electricity to fossil fuels", including the US, and that "no-one in Europe has the link we have" – all simply untrue! pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/19...

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Dale Vince was on #r4roday at 6.50am promoting "breaking the link" between gas and electricity and of course it would be a morning the gormless Justin Webb is presenting. Cue fawning questions from someone with no idea how markets work and apparently no briefing notes explaining it to him

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Zonal pricing: "Major renewable energy developers including SSE and Scottish Power claim that upending the market could put billions of pounds in investment and thousands of jobs at risk if major projects are delayed or derailed by the uncertainty created by the changes."

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On a lighter note, Kudermetova is currently beating Kudermetova. Excellent usability, BBC Sport 😂

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Surprised but pleased at the sentence given here, which finally seems to reflect the degree of negligence involved. In 1999 I was on Snowdon when 10 year old Jonathon Attwell was taken down a difficult, dangerous route by a Scout leader and fell to his death.

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Research from Exeter University 👍

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"This shift suggests that oil and gas is now a sunset industry, managing a long-term, if occasionally profitable, decline." Always read @davidfickling.bsky.social 🎁 Link www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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