The Solar Spark

We are ambassadors for the Sun; out to educate and engage people in solar energy!

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

64% of Italy’s military operations spend is to protect the interests of companies that extract fossil fuels.

2/3 of EU military missions are to secure oil & gas imports.

That’s €€€€ billions to 'protect' fossil fuels that are devastating the planet we depend on.

[#StopRosebank @StopCambo]

🚨BREAKING: Siccar Point Energy has paused the Cambo oil field🚨

This is HUGE news. Now the UK government needs a real plan for a #JustTransition for industry workers & communities and to rule out new oil & gas projects once and for all #StopCambo
https://t.co/JgefEzS2wX

[Chemistry Edinburgh @EdinburghChem]

Brilliant news, congrats @VictoriaPorley on the @RSC_Photochem prize 👏🎉#photocatalysis

[The Solar Spark @TheSolarSpark]

Congratulations George!

[AES Solar @aessolar]

Wow! What a night at @SolarStorageUK Awards 2021 in Birmingham.

Our managing director and “founding father of solar” George Goudsmit has only gone and been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his dedication to the solar industry over the past 30 years. 🥳👏

[Loughborough University PR @LboroPR]

In the latest #COP26 short videos, Prof Michael Walls, of @CREST_lboro and @SuperSolarHub, discusses what has been achieved so far with solar energy, its incredible growth story, and the contributions of Loughborough University in this area.

Watch here 👇
https://t.co/cklh2TqhnR

[Daisy Dunne @daisydunnesci]

Exclusive: 70 climate scientists urge PM to end new oil and gas investment ahead of Cop26

List includes @FrediOtto @DrJamesEHansen @MichaelEMann

https://t.co/GXIAt5Nssc

[Andrew Simms @AndrewSimms_uk]

Much talk of the Treasury's use of 'economically illiterate' as a put-down to fend off green public investment calls. Wrong, but has it occurred to them they may be 'ecologically illiterate', & as economics is just 'made up' while ecology is real, that the latter matters more?

[350 dot org @350]

$11 million a MINUTE.

Take the money out of fossil fuels and put it in the transition to 👏 stay 👏 alive 👏!
https://t.co/QaxkbcmAjD

[The Solar Spark @TheSolarSpark]

And is PM listening to himself or will he still push for new oilfields?

[James Murray @James_BG]

Impressively clear stuff from the PM today on the urgent need for climate action and the economic logic of decarbonisation. Just got to hope his Chancellor and backbenchers are listening, alongside the world leaders the Johnson is talking to. https://t.co/SCPaOqrGuk

[SuperSolar @SuperSolarHub]

📢Dr @jesswade chairing another webinar on The Role of Solar Technologies in Sustainable Development IV!
👩‍💻Talks focused on printed PV, perovskites, solar integration + solar in the developing world.

4th Oct 2021, 12.00-14.00 BST
Register by 1st Oct: https://t.co/gSdekcQOj0

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

Solar power in Australia outstrips coal-fired electricity for first time https://t.co/o2dMNI578p

[The Solar Spark @TheSolarSpark]

Maybe we could start by rejecting fossil fuel protectionism and subsides.

[James Murray @James_BG]

Am very much pro-green trade (the environmental goods agreement talks really should be revitalised), but I just don't see how this approach delivers the rapid, systemic changes that are needed. https://t.co/xee3Et6EEa

[Josh King @SolarJosh1]

Could Scotland unleash greater #Solar potential? Surely we have the potential to be on par with our friends in NI and Denmark? In the run up to #COP26 let's encourage @scotgov to set ambitious 2030 solar targets, as off-shore wind has!

[Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌎 @FoEScot]

Huge applause for the brave people who occupied the UK Government building all day to oppose a new 800 million barrel oil field proposed off Shetland.

@BorisJohnson must reject this climate-wrecking project #StopCambo

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

The Copenhagen summit of 2009 was undone by deep mistrust of the developed world by developing countries. The PM’s decision to cut aid spending shows he doesn’t understand that COP26 is not a photo op but a complex and fragile negotiation. Me at COP questions yesterday:

[Brilliant Matters Inc. @Brilliant_Mat]

It looks like we have a new record PCE for Organic Photovoltaics !

https://t.co/Hz0cT8efzy

[Statkraft UK @StatkraftUK]

Trebling the UK’s #solarenergy capacity by 2030 could cut total UK carbon emissions by 21.2 million tonnes per year as fossil fuels are replaced with cleaner power & create 13,000 jobs, according to a new report by
@SolarEnergyUK_☀️Read more: https://t.co/W1AU1ZG95S

[pv magazine @pvmagazine]

UK solar industry wants capacity trebled this decade: Solar Energy UK today called on the government to provide it with the same kind of support that has been extended to offshore wind companies. https://t.co/r7DsyuQTcs #solarenergy #solarpv #solar

[pv magazine @pvmagazine]

Saules Technologies opens perovskite solar cell factory in Poland: The Polish perovskite solar cell specialist claims to be the first company in the world to have commissioned commercial production of the technology. https://t.co/RmjA4ggt8V #solarenergy #solarpv #solar

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

WOW!
Solar canals in India 🇮🇳!
Solar panels being integrated into canals in Gujarat. It helps with evaporative losses, doesn’t use extra land and keeps solar panels cooler.
Huge step forward for solar industry!

https://t.co/SpABghkwQV