Shane O'Connor

Barriers to Clean Electrification lead at the Energy Transitions Commission. Passionate about accelerating towards clean energy. Views my own.

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

🌡️Britain's summers are hotter.
🔋Britain's grid is cleaner.
↕️Heat pumps can cool as well as heat our homes.

And yet only 5% of British households have AC.

Let's change that.

https://t.co/QnBDi8RVIs

[Colin Walker @colinwalker79]

Here's some A-grade EV misinformation from the @Telegraph

"EV fires up 77% in two years!!!"

What the @Telegraph fails to mention is that the number of EVs on our roads has gone up 105% in those 2 years

Which means the frequency of EV fires has actually gone down!

1/4

[Kristian Niemietz @K_Niemietz]

The standard midwit opinion on this is that "You can't out-Reform Reform" (or "out-Farage Farage".)
Like most midwit opinions, it sounds superficially clever, but it misses the point.
When Wetherspoons offer a grill platter, they're not trying to "out-steakhouse the steakhouse".

[ECIU @ECIU_UK]

‘Patriotic pumps’: heat pumps to run mainly on British energy as boilers set to be ‘heavily dependent’ on imports

Over next five years heat pumps increasingly run on British renewable electricity as gas boilers become 80% dependent on imports.
https://t.co/sj42UFKh2D

[Energy Transitions Commission @ETC_energy]

What is an "ideal" NDC?
Here's a checklist for the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions due in in 2025.

Find out how NDCs can turn into investment plans to help achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century below.

Read the analysis: https://t.co/ScDMbAacaQ

[Jesse Peltan @JessePeltan]

1. "cats kill 10,000 times as many birds as wind turbines!"

"yeah but cats kill small birds! wind turbines kill endangered birds like eagles!"

I've seen this same exchange hundreds of times and it always stops there.

Here's what's missing...

[Sam Dumitriu @Sam_Dumitriu]

New: National Infrastructure Commission publish major report looking into the underlying causes of the UK's high infrastructure costs.

Here are some of the key insights. 🧵

[Nikolaus J. Kurmayer @NKurmayer]

New interface for nerds just dropped via @EmberClimate

https://t.co/7myWmekneT

[Shane O'Connor @ShaneOConnor_1]

It's great to have landed an op-ed in Business Green discussing the impact of the AR6 on the UK's offshore wind targets.

Important to note an 18GW gap of uncontracted capacity that must be filled imminently if the UK is to meet targets of 50 GW by 2030.

[BusinessGreen @BusinessGreen]

Clean energy auctions must be designed to deliver offshore wind targets https://t.co/6N84FMPHL4

[James Hewett @JamesHewettDC]

Grid Strategies put together a great one-pager on how the transmission provisions in the permitting bill would work:

[Shane O'Connor @ShaneOConnor_1]

For information on the analysis and key solutions please read the report and get in touch with any questions.

[Shane O'Connor @ShaneOConnor_1]

Earlier this month the Energy Transitions Commission published our insights into ‘Overcoming Turbulence in the Offshore Wind Sector’, which I had the pleasure to be the lead author of. A quick thread of key insights:

https://t.co/SOesOZ07Eb

[Shane O'Connor @ShaneOConnor_1]

By massively expanding the scope of offshore wind deployment in each country and harmonising turbines so that they can play into different markets the success of China can be replicated elsewhere.