John Taylor

Climate idleist. Community renewables advocate. Tweets my own.

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

Climate change is like a murmuration of starlings. Please read and share https://t.co/TXiv7knL78

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@MDC12345678 You mean like banning onshore wind in England for a decade?

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@RogerHelmerMEP The oil we would have imported, do you think they're just going to leave that in the ground instead? No they'll sell it someone else who will burn it, so Rosebank will be additional emissions.

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@ItsChrisBowden Key word there is displace. Most likely outcome is it will be additional global production and therefore more emissions.

[RockandGrohl @BusyFooFighting]

WHY are the fossil fools not chirping about this?

£8/MWh for 30GW of power.

But when the gas plants absolutely rinse us at 100x the price when wind is lower than expected, for a few hundred MWh across a couple hours, it’s the end of the world.

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@Peter__Wood I'd add 'does not amplify/accelerate future energy security risks'

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@DaleVince What's the point in making solar electricity if we're not then going to put in a heat pump or EV? We need demand side electrification to complement renewables.

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@faisalislam The money still exists, it's just in the ISAs and pension pots, and inflated house prices, of everyone who lived through the low tax/high welfare years of 80s/90s/early noughties. They should be encouraged to invest in new renewable energy sources via an NS&I climate premium bond

[Bob Ward @ret_ward]

It is our dependence on natural gas that is causing high energy bills, not net zero. Fossil fuels make us cold and poor.

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@rcolvile There's 10 items higher on the list for improving our energy security above more drilling. If commentators were sincere about the motive they'd be advocating for these too, chiefly faster rollout of EVs and heat pumps (like Norway), and optimised heating controls. Yet they don't

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@freethinker967 That's point though isn't it. The emissions from gas boilers become everyone's business whether we like it or not.

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

They can use the tax revenue to accelerate the roll out of heat pumps, and make gas heating obsolete.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

NEW: The Jackdaw gasfield will be given the go-ahead on Wednesday, signalling Andy Burnham’s commitment to the North Sea fossil fuel industry and threatening to trigger a row with climate campaigners and Labour MPs.

Story by @kiranstacey https://t.co/OmVJmT2XPd

[Greg Jackson @g__j]

You can't run a system with millions of variable consumption and generation and storage devices the way you ran it when you had 150 fossil fuel generators and a handful of nukes.

It's not the new technology (wind, solar, batteries, EVs) that's the issue - it's the total failure to change the way we manage the system.

This is why locational wholesale market (which is automatically dramatically more flexible) was so powerful - and is increasingly used in the OECD. We need decentralised signals so the system self-optimises.

Octopus already processes 300,000 data points a second to do this for the many GW we control - but the brute force of the main system management just doesn't have this granularity.

It is increasingly urgent to reform our electricity system. These control room issues, the £50m spent balancing the system in a single day, the £3bn a year on curtailment, the prospect of £7-9bn a year of curtailment by 2029/2030.

It's all avoidable but not with the tools of yesterday

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@renewablesmiffy I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.

[Ember @ember_energy]

🚨 NEW | Electric cars saved oil-importing countries $20 BILLION in crude oil imports in the six months since the US-Israel war with Iran began ⚡📉

China saved an estimated $14 billion, while EU countries avoided $3.1 billion in oil imports.

https://t.co/jfwcEE9JXO

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[Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta]

China's coal imports fell 6% in September year on year, crude oil imports fell 22% and fossil gas imports by 2%. Mirrors reductions in consumption as solar and wind displace coal and gas and EVs and rail displace oil.

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@aDissentient You clearly don't understand how electric cars work then. I'm saving £600 a year on petrol costs in my little 2nd hand EV.

[Jess Ralston @jessralston2]

Odd that @NewStatesman has chosen to frame @EdConwaySky's front page story as a net zero hit piece, when the article is overwhelmingly...NOT about net zero.

See here: the article with red highlighting the net zero bit, clearly not much at all. But if you're intrigued ...🧵

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@joshemden It depends what we want from heat pumps. If it's max carbon savings, and max reducing gas imports then we need to target the above average gas consuming homes, which will be more affluent people. A heat pump in one detached house could displace enough gas to fuel 3-5 flats.

[John Taylor @CoppiceJT]

@LeonieGreene @Miatsf So short sighted if this goes through. Heat pumps are energy security! We save the most carbon and free up the most gas by targeting above average usage homes first.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

FACTCHECK: UK Conservatives double the ‘cost of net-zero’ after spreadsheet blunder

The Tory "Right Way" booklet makes an erroneous claim about the cost of cutting emissions, possibly taken from a Jan26 thinktank report, and deffo the most idiotic error I've seen for a while 🧵