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guynewey.bsky.social
CEO at Energy Systems Catapult. Helping clean tech innovators thrive in the future energy system. Ex-SPAD/PAD/wonk/hack. Uncertain about much....
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Always amazed by the turns innovation takes us on, but 'The Mind' is blowing my, er, mind. A game sold for £8.99 where the equipment is, I kid you not, cards with the numbers 1-100 written on it. And it is brilliant, super simple, family fun. Gotta love the market economy...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Calling all civil servants and data nerds in the energy & climate space: if you were going to preemptively save any particular documents or data from websites (just in case, no reason), what would it be? (feel free to DM or hmu on Signal if you'd rather not reply publicly)

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Today is a good day. First the Government looks like it is going to lean towards the radical on planning reform (including the creation of a Nature Restoration Fund, which will be a better way of offsetting damage).

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Is it just possible that both gas prices AND the cost of renewables are responsible for GB's high energy prices (plus coal and nuclear decisions, and countless other myriad design choices)?

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Let's give this cross-X/Bsky posting thing a go (via Buffer)....

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

This is a nice OECD study I just sent to @tomforth.co.uk about the impact of devolving local government control. It uses a lot of data to test Tom's thesis that excessive centralisation is a huge drain on productivity. So what does it find.... Drum roll please... www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

This is a really interesting post, and helped sharpen up lots of things this non-economist brain grapples with….. important for energy and climate policy, and theories of….

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

A bit of end of year fun – how much energy did you use and how much did you generate? Me, 90 sq m detached built to 2006 Part L ⚡ 1340 kWh 🔥 2951 kWh 🌞 1891 kWh

submitted 62 days ago • 9 comments

Another great year for UK electricity decarbonisation. Emission down to 30 MT/year (intensity 119 g/kWh), 11% of 280 MT high. Wind and solar output both continuing to grow. Coal finished this year. Old nuclear closing but 2031 before Hinkley Point C comes on. Demand falling but EVs and HPs coming.

submitted 62 days ago • 4 comments

Could someone create a Google Maps of this for me ? Everywhere You Can Get A Cheap Pint For £6 Or Less In Zone 1, Central London

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Good profile of Greg Jackson in the Economist…. Important para on Uk great place to start, not easy to scale…..

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

This is the latest in @benshaf.bsky.social's excellent series on things he likes and dislikes in energy - always insightful and challenging. Now I just need to convince him to put it on a substack.... www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-ene...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve got a brand new @nestauk.bsky.social blog up. Should we try splitting the heat pump journey into two stages, with two different grants: one to get “heat pump ready”, one to fit the actual heat pump? www.nesta.org.uk/blog/getting...

submitted 82 days ago • 18 comments

This is really excellent by @gilesyb.bsky.social. Tech is important, but not that important. Raises the spectre of current high energy prices as a key risk to the British economy....

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

When does BlueSky wake up?

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

NEW The move to heat pumps is gathering pace. October 2024 saw a 17.5% growth in applications for air source heat pump grants, on October 2023. There were 3,769 applications last month, highest number since the Boiler Upgrade Scheme started. Govt stats today www.gov.uk/government/s...

submitted 96 days ago • 3 comments

It may be because I have been forced to watch it many times, but now thinking ‘The Inbestigators’ may be in my top five TV programmes of all time (The Wire, The West Wing, This is Us, Succession, the Bear)…..

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

*NEW* heat pump installs reached a new record in October, under the Government's Boiler Upgrade Scheme 3,800 applications received in October ‼️ following a year of growth after the last Government upped the grant amount to £7,500

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

I gave two talks yesterday and in both emphasised that we don’t speak enough about the value our buildings provide to our lives. We get obsessed with the capital cost without communicating how that contributes to lower running costs and better outcomes during use such as improved health. 1/2

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Surely the true answer is to do it by distributed network operator regions?

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

This is a really concise, clear summary of why we need Local Area Energy planning. Well done to @acjsissons.bsky.social and the @nestauk.bsky.social team….

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re Energy Systems Catapult, working to accelerate the shift to #NetZero. From clean tech innovation to creating future energy systems that work for everyone, we’re here to drive progress across homes, networks, and beyond. Follow us for the latest updates in #EnergyInnovation!

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

I got asked an interesting question yesterday, is there a measurable impact of digitalisation on the amount of electricity flexibility available? I'm going to look at this in the next year of my PhD but keen to find sources or evidence from the community

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment