If the UK had deployed heat pumps at the same rate as some other European countries, its dependence on gas would be significantly lower this year, analysis suggests https://t.co/cioffHyEFK
UN says world on course for 2.8 degrees of catastrophic warming. New PM says he has more important things to worry about than going to COP. Failure of leadership on climate, jobs,bills, security.
https://t.co/v18FfTefCV
Key line from Bank of England today, "Assuming interest rates follow this market-implied path, the share of households with high cost-of-living adjusted mortgage debt-servicing ratios would increase by end-2023 to around the peak levels reached ahead of global financial crisis"
US and UK navy ships unable to conduct scheduled port calls to refuel in Solomon Islands as requests to enter went unanswered. SIslands recently signed closer ties with China. Here's a piece I wrote in May - https://t.co/Ad80uKloeA
In round numbers:
180km2 = UK's current solar farms
500km2 = UK airports
700km2 = quarries
1,300km2 = golf courses
1,500km2 = enough solar for net-zero by 2050
The two worst performing companies, Southern Water and South West Water, have made extraordinary profit margins in recent years.
Privatisation is a disaster for the public.
As we head into the #PlatinumJubilee bank holiday, our 6 nuclear power stations are the UK's leading source of clean power.
For decades, they have been the backbone of 🇬🇧 energy security.
And with our friends @RenewableUK, they show us a path to #netzero
NEW: Boris Johnson has watered down the ministerial code - allowing ministers to break the rules without resigning - and blocked a bid to give his ethics advisor the power to investigate him…
https://t.co/IlDvkqbhSX
CHALLENGES FOR NODAL PRICING: a new Stonehaven paper. We’ve been thinking about the next phase of electricity market reform for some time, and wanted to put out a paper that provides a summary of debate in as accessible language as possible. /1 https://t.co/03J2LLKYNE
'I wouldn't expect the windfall tax to impact energy firms' investment decisions'.
Rachel Reeves MP says Labour are calling for investment into 'nuclear and renewables, as they are the cheapest forms of electricity'.
https://t.co/iOm40vn1kt
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👉 Interested in how a nuclear reactor works?
The BBC's Climate Question podcast visited Somerset's Hinkley Point B to explain the science behind #nuclear power and the reasons why the UK plans to build more stations to help strengthen energy security.
Click below to listen!
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Something seriously odd is afoot in natural gas markets.
There's a BIG glut of gas in the UK.
Wholesale gas prices are the lowest in 18 months.
There is so much gas no-one is quite sure what to do with it
Yet far from falling, household gas bills are heading even higher.
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.@susannareid100 tells the PM about 77-year-old Elsie who eats one meal a day and stays on the bus all day to avoid using energy at home.
She questions the PM about the comments he made about people having to make choices about what they spend their money on.
“Elsie, a 77 year old woman has to ride around on buses all day to keep warm because she can’t afford to heat in her home” @susannareid100@BorisJohnson’s reply:
“I actually introduced the freedom bus pass.”
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