@chris-carus
Domestic energy efficiency and heat pumps in Glasgow. Exec officer at Loco Home Retrofit CIC, Glasgow's community-led retrofit one stop shop - a hub for households and tradespeople. https://locohome.coop/ https://bsky.app/profile/locohome.bsky.social
Helpfully Tim Leunig accepts as a premise that more North Sea drilling won’t make oil nor gas more affordable in the UK.
But his arguments about tax and the strategic benefit of allowing more North Sea licensing are flawed in key ways (as well as in ways that James has pointed out). Long 🧵 below:
If you were investing in the future would you like to spend a billion or more dollars a day on a war for oil or would you like to spend that money to rapidly reduce your dependence on oil?
Now we get to see both of those approaches in real time.
Tom here raises an interesting question while shouting into the void of social media. We have 8 months or so to destroy as much gas demand as possible in the least harmful way. Not a lot of time. What do you do?
As ever, such a strange choice from the Labour leadership not to make more of the government’s genuinely impressive track record on clean tech when it’s delivering economic growth, creates a dividing line with the Tories and Reform, and could build bridges with voters lost to the Greens.
Whicy net zero policy did UK Gov burn? They are atill going for it on clean power 2030 and warm homes plan.
Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.
Wait until these people hear about heat network construction.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
As Michael points out this outcome was 100% predictable. Six months before this trial launched I interviewed a dozen EU cities who had trialled hydrogen transport. None would recommend it. All Aberdeen had to do was ask. Deeply frustrating waste of time and money.
The new Lancet study on the genocide in Gaza finds that total deaths were 1.71 times higher than reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health as of January 2025.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Extent
This is very interesting to me
My city, Glasgow, is kidding itself to at least a similar extemy. Where is the chart from?
Office admin is climate action - when you’re enabling domestic retrofit!
CRM implementation is marine conservation- when you’re enabling more efficient heat pump deployment!
We are hiring two positions at Loco Home Retrofit In Glasgow.
Office admin is climate action - when you’re enabling domestic retrofit!
CRM implementation is marine conservation- when you’re enabling more efficient heat pump deployment!
We are hiring two positions at Loco Home Retrofit In Glasgow.
Put another way, every single person who has ever held an Abla Party membership is so profoundly unlikable that they, on average, never managed to persuade a single family member or friend to vote for their preferred candidate.
Isn’t the plan to wait for the No voters to die? so do no thinking and make no hard choices - just wait? give it another decade.
Yes that was what I assumed Adam meant.
Again, why are former politicians like Osborne and Blair making warnings like this about AI and not about clean tech where deployment is far more advanced and the benefits much clearer?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Housing benefit presumably.
Renovating your home in Glasgow? 🏠 Don't just make it look good—make it feel good.
From insulation wins to heat pump readiness, we’ve shared 5 ways to future-proof your project before the dust settles.
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Awesome! I’ll drop you a line.
1 | Forewords Secretary of State, Ed Miliband Britain's drive for clean energy is about answering the call for a different kind of economy that works for the many, not just the wealthy and powerful in our society. Local and community energy is at the heart of our government's vision. We refuse to accept that the days when Britain owned things are in the past. That is why we set up Great British Energy (GBE), the UK's first new publicly owned energy company in 70 years, to ensure the British people can own and benefit from our natural energy resources. I am incredibly proud that today GBE and my department are launching the Local Power Plan, delivering the biggest public investment in community energy in this country's history. This is about working hand in hand with community groups, local authorities and the devolved governments right across the UK to realise a bottom-up vision not just of publicly owned power, but of power owned and controlled by communities themselves. Ownership is a transformative tool to build the wealth of local areas-giving people a stake in the places they live and generating pride, respect and local prosperity that can't be dismantled. We see that in community owned pubs, leisure centres and libraries; in the UK's thousands of cooperative businesses and its proud cooperative movement; and in the pioneering community energy projects we already see across Britain, from Lawrence Weston in Bristol to the Isle of Skye Cooperative in the Hebrides to Westmill in Oxfordshire to the Geraint Thomas Velodrome in Wales. Indeed, community owned energy is already the norm in other countries. More than half of wind in Denmark and half of solar in Germany is citizen-owned. But despite its huge potential. for too long community energy in this country has been held back by a lack of funding, advice and government support. The Local Power Plan is how we turn this around. This is a transformative strategy to unleash the untapped dynamism, resources and enthusi…
There is more clarity of political vision and positivity for the future of this country in this one page foreword to the Local Power Plan than in everything else Starmer’s government has done since taking power
Spot on.
Pretty good round up. Covered tech, demand reduction and all budgets pretty well.
I was provoked by the bait but it had bait for everyone.
Proper job.
Decent bit on heat pumps there. skills mentioned!
Oh we’re back on the heat pumps 😬
Bit of an issue with your arithmetic there, Guy!
4 / 0.8 > 4 !!
Ah lots of good stuff on doing stuff right if you’re going to do it at all. Like airtight windows. 👍
Great to see Gervase in a People Powered Retrofit hoodie!
Oh no! they’ve got a bit about ‘isn’t Scotland great’ but nobody has checked whether the action matches the rhetoric (it doesn’t, yet at least).
On catch up and yep it’s turning out this way.
I’ve seen plenty through my job where the performance is enough to reduce bills while reducing emissions by 90% for ~£17k and not having to decant the occupants. Zero carbon grid 2030 will deal with the other 10%.