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Wind Turbine Wind-fluencer, Communications for @RenewableUK ๐Ÿง™ Animal, anime & ๐Ÿ“ธ lover in Glasgow & London ๐ŸŒ Miserable elder emo millennial who never grew up, constantly drinking coffee โ˜•๏ธ Personal account, not endorsements or views of my employer
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There's a certain type of people with flags, guns & poppies in their profiles who up until now never shut up about WW2 and scream "BORDERS, SOVEREIGNTY, MILITARY, who are happy to SURRENDER a tyrant taking over a European country because tangerine Tate says so, go fuck yourselves ๐Ÿ–• #SlavaUkraรฏni

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With the need to upgrade our grid gaining prominence, there has been a debate around overhead pylon lines versus underground cables in the media and the presumption of undergrounding proposed by some politicians and campaigners๐Ÿ”Œ www.renewableuk.com/news-and-res...

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Wrapping up Ports and Vessels 2025, RenewableUK's Head of Supply Chain Ajai Ahluwalia thanks delegates for attending the day discussing how me modernise the UK maritime industry and make our ports and vessel infrastructure fit for future industries like floating offshore wind ๐Ÿ›ฅ๏ธ

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Newcastle is actually quite pretty and very edinburgh-esque, especially the leg day work out I got walking up the near vertical streets to see the old castles like a damn mountain goat ๐Ÿฐ ๐Ÿ

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Time to kick off the first RenewableUK conference of the year #RUKPV25 Elizabeth Conboy opens in #Newcastle, describing how its more important than ever for the UK to have updated port infrastructure and modern maritime vessels fit for the future to realise the full potential of offshore wind โš“

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Round 2 of conferences kicking off @renewableuk.bsky.social Ports and Vessels conference drinks reception in Newcastle ๐Ÿ›ณ Of course I had to have a Greggs and Newcastle brown ale ๐Ÿบ

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I dont think I've ever seen so much pink in my life at the Octopus Energy disco at #ScotLab25 ๐Ÿธ

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Fantastic couple of days @scottishlabour.bsky.social conference in the dear green Glasgow representing RenewableUK with Victoria Parrett ๐Ÿค

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Kicking off day two of @scottishlabour.bsky.social conference 2025 bright and early, RenewableUK's @vicparrett.bsky.social, Scottish Renewables Chief Executive Claire Mack, Scottish STUC General Secretary Roz Foyer and IPPR Scotland Stephen Boyd held a morning roundtable. (1/4))

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Bustling first day at @ScottishLabour conference representing @renewableuk.bsky.social with @vicparrett.bsky.social in Glasgow ๐ŸŒง๏ธ Great to meet Monica Lennon MSP along with myTrade Union rep mum Evelyn Ann and Energy Minister @michaelshanksmp.co.uk MP to discuss wind power & zonal pricing ๐Ÿ›‘ (1/2)

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๐ŸŒŠ In advance of Ports & Vessels 2025, Alex Gauntt from Fjord Base Gruppen, shares his knowledge of the Norwegian port partnership and its impact on the UK's offshore wind sector. Alex will be speaking in session A2: Regional clusters and the power of partnership in action. (1/2)๐Ÿšข

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Favourite Lebanese food and tiny tea cups Beirut Star Glasgow with my favourite tiny Lebanese latino Dominican, empty chaired by the other latino ๐Ÿ˜’, but managed to make it a whole meal without argueing so we know who the common denominator is ๐Ÿ˜˜ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ด

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๐ŸŒน Roses are red ๐Ÿ’œ Violets are blue ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด Romanians buckle for Tiramisu ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

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๐‘๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฐ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ž๐Ÿ๐ ๐ž๐ฆ'๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐›๐ข๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ง๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ฎ๐ž RenewableUK's Director of Future Electricity Systems Barnaby Wharton comments on the publication of Ofgem's plans to reduce decade long grid connection delays in our latest press release ๐Ÿ“ฐ ๐Ÿ‘‡

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Trump hostility to US offshore wind reverberates through supply chain - www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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Reform UK's energy policy announcements are Schrodingers Solar, "expensive renewables, but also stop the farmers saving money on their bills and making money to subsidise food production costs" ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐”๐Šโ€™๐ฌ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ A report published today sets out key proposals to enable the lifespan of offshore wind farms to be extended, recommendations for the development of best decommissioning options.

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My new trainers are so damn white I look like Ye who must not be named ๐Ÿ‘Ÿ๐ŸŽผ

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Global offshore wind capacity grew 15% in 2024. Global operational offshore wind capacity has now topped 80 gigawatts (GW). China and the Netherlands delivered 63% of new capacity over the past year, adding 6.9GW and 1.7GW respectively. www.businessgreen.com/4409690/

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The latest Energy Pulse database report is out showing the global capacity of fully operational offshore wind farms has grown more than 10% in the last year from 70.2GW to 80.9 GW โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ“ˆ renewableuk.com/news-and-res...

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Certain politicians and sections of the media have been presenting a bad-faith argument that the power cuts during storms such as #stormewoyn were caused by wind turbines being shut down for high winds (1/2) โ›”

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Following the widespread damage and power outages caused by #StormEowyn last month, there was confusion in certain quarters at the sight of wind turbines being temporarily shut down and wind energy curtailed (1/2)๐ŸŒช๏ธ www.renewableuk.com/news-and-res...

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๐Ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ-๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง: ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฑ๐ข๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ - RenewableUK Report A new report setting out a series of measures to address the challenges developers face when building battery storage and green hydrogen projects alongside offshore wind farms (1/4)๐Ÿ”‹ โšก

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๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ข๐งโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฐ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐จ 725,000 ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐จ๐›๐ฌ The move towards renewable energy could deliver between 135,000 and 725,000 new jobs, according to the Climate Change Committee, but finding and training enough new staff to meet the nationโ€™s needs is a serious challenge ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ

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So more than a week after my laptop got stolen in plain sight at Euston Station, the police response was "Sorry nothing we can do it happens all the time, it happened twice yesterday", then I finally got an email a week later from British Transport Police with a crime number saying "sorry babes ".๐Ÿคท

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RenewableUK would like to wish a happy Lunar New Year to the Chinese community and all those who celebrate, gong xi fa cai ๐Ÿ #LunarNewYear #ChineseNewYear2025

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๐‡๐ฒ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ž๐ง ๐”๐Š & ๐‘๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ฐ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐”๐Š ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ข๐ฅ ๐ค๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ž๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐›๐ฒ 58% RenewableUK & HydrogenUK have launched a joint report today, โ€œ๐’๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž - ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญโ€ aimed at lowering hydrogen production costs (1/3)

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With #StormEowyn causing blackouts throughout Scotland, the usual suspects are presenting a bad-faith argument that it is wind turbines being shut off causing the power cuts, read my Twitter๐Ÿงต on how this is false and explain the wider context of high wind curtailment ๐Ÿ‘‡ x.com/davidgADPR/s...

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The same happened to me last week, they got away with my bag with laptop right outside Itsu noodles in plain sight, and the station police response was "Sorry nothing we can do it happens all the time, it happened twice yesterday", I dunno maybe do something about it! ๐Ÿคท Keep your eyes peeled folks๐Ÿ‘€

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Blowing the January cobwebs off and dusted out my trusty blue suit & turbine badge for the first conference of the year at Scottish Renewables #SROFFSHORE25 Glasgow. Great to hear from Deputy FM Kate Forbes and Stephen Flynn MP about raising our ambitions for Scotland's offshore wind sector.

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