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Emma Pinchbeck

@ELPinchbeck

26 days

My train season ticket costs £10k 🫠. I forgot it, and it cost £200 (😵) to buy a day ticket. 3 x GWR staff told me to go to Paddington to get a refund as they’d “have my pass”. Paddington just refused to refund cos “they don’t do paper tickets from trains”. WTAF @GWRHelp

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1 year

Why are we letting golf courses swallow up our farmland? Fixed it for you.

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Why are we allowing solar panels to swallow up our farmland? ✍️ Ross Clark

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10 months

I will never, ever forget the President of the Marshall Islands begging the world, during the negotiation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, to take in his people, as his country was disappearing under the sea.

Revealed: UK plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge

Exclusive: Disclosure provokes fury as Rishi Sunak accused of betraying populations vulnerable to global heating

www.theguardian.com

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@johnredwood Hi John, it’s my comments on gas you’re referencing. Worth noting I’m the spokesperson for the UK’s energy sector, so my views are irrelevant: I’m telling you what the incumbent energy industry thinks. That said, I’ve got a over a decade of of experience in energy. Thanks.

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2 years

It’s 21 degrees in London today. Sat in the playground watching all the local parents and their children dressed in knitwear, hats and boots (me too!), sweating, because it’s October, and that’s what you normally wear in a the UK In autumn. Boiling frogs.

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It is essential for the future economy and meeting UK carbon budgets that train travel is reliable, straightforward and affordable. I am extremely fortunate to be able to weather a £200 payment and that I have an employer that offers a season ticket loan, but this is a joke @dft

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9 months

The last time MPs decided to back away from “green policies” they banned onshore wind and reduced insulation programmes. We now know this has cost bill payers hundreds on bills. Net zero needs to be done fairly. Not doing it will cost everyone. Ask about how, not if, we do it.

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2 years

Pleased to announced the safe arrival of our lovely boy on 2nd May 2022, at 12.21am. My waters broke on Friday night, the day maternity leave started, so we already know he’s got better time-keeping skills than me. Global CO2 forecast to be 418ppm in the year of his birth.

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@QuarryAli @GWRHelp £10k a year to use the trains SPECIFICALLY on one route, between 2 designated stations. Hard to believe that it’s difficult to get people to travel by train rather than car isn’t it? Our second hand EV was only just more expensive.

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@ELPinchbeck

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Mood in the energy sector is grim. Neither the economy nor the environment care about politics. The UK is already projected to fall to the bottom of the biggest 8 economies for renewables investment by 2030. Greece is on fire. And outside the UK, no one knows what an Uxbridge is.

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2 years

Billions of pounds invested by some of the best engineers and physicists around the planet to develop wind turbines the size of skyscrapers out at sea and I can’t believe we didn’t realise, over here in the energy industry, that the wind doesn’t blow all the time

Rt Hon Steve Baker MP FRSA 🗽

@SteveBakerFRSA

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@KwasiKwarteng @BorisJohnson No. The wind stops on its own 🤦‍♂️

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2 years

There’s a lot of chat about how to cope with more frequent heat waves in the community groups I’m in. With thanks to @heatpolicyrich here’s some easy cooling advice (that isn’t buying a stand alone air conditioning unit 😬): 🧵 Suggest anything I’ve missed👇

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2 years

Last time I spoke to @RishiSunak , as Chancellor, it was to say that a Net Zero energy system was also a low cost, secure energy system; that the energy sector underpins the economy; & that rising gas prices were a massive worry for most people. Much has changed since: that hasn’t

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@ELPinchbeck

26 days

@martleshamman @GWRHelp There is no ability to do ID on the train, hence paper ticket. There is no ability to refund paper tickets at the station that I was told would be able to look up my ID. I dunno what they’re using £10k of my money for but it isn’t reliable trains or IT systems.

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6 months

A scene from the “war on motorists”. Asked 3 young guys in their 20s, sat chatting in their car on my street if they’d mind turning off their engine, as they’d been there a while. They were affronted…

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5 years

Introducing our lovely daughter. Born October 3rd at 4.30am weighing 8lb 2oz and with Global CO2 at 407.53ppm at Mauna Loa See you in about 25 yrs.

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7 months

I just came out of a meeting where a chunk of the British economy was assured by Ministers that Net Zero was a top priority, & policy stability is critical for investors. Meanwhile, this. Not a great look for UK PLC. Let us hope it’s “just the headline”

Rishi Sunak considers weakening key green policies

Plans could include delaying a ban on sales of new petrol cars and the phasing out of gas boilers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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4 years

I’d phone the shale lobbyist blokes who gave evidence with me to Parliament some years ago & who decided their argument should be to patronise my lack of experience, & shout HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES but it might wake the baby. Now, let’s bring back ONSHORE WIND.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

It feels like something we shouldn’t have to keep saying, but here we all are: The root cause of the energy crisis is record high gas prices on the international market. The permanent solution to bill rises caused by gas prices is to reduce UK demand for gas imports.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

This isn’t the week for personal news from me, really, as my focus is with the energy retailers and their customers. But I basically had to undo my trouser button to sit down on a panel debate just now, so people might notice: I’m pregnant, due in May next year.

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@ELPinchbeck

9 months

I’ve said this before but @Riverford climate comms remain some of the best from the business community. Honest about challenges to change, thoughtful about what still could to be done, uncompromising about reality of climate impacts.

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3 years

My mum just message to ask about why, if global warming is a thing, it's currently apocalyptically hailing in early summer, and my conclusion is that on a number of levels I need to do my job better.

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2 years

One of the roads they're naming as more congested is the M25. I, for one, am fed up of the legions of cyclists on major motorways... Wait, I think this analysis might be flawed.

London congestion: Capital becomes world’s most congested city

London drivers spent 148 hours stuck in traffic jams in 2021, according to traffic information provider Inrix.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@ELPinchbeck

7 years

Offshore Wind just delivered the closest thing to an energy sector mic drop: offshore, onshore wind and solar are cheaper than gas & nukes

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@ELPinchbeck

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In 2024, the majority of UK Power comes from clean energy. Coal is less than 3% of generation. In January 2023, a max record of 87% clean generation was set. Energy sector employs 1 in every 48 people in the UK; it’s important politicians are accurate about our sector.

Lee Anderson MP

@LeeAndersonMP_

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Net Zero Nonsense. Cutting my lawns with a battery powered lawnmower (a gift) gets you thinking.

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2 years

Not seen a cry for attention this desperate since my toddler put a pair of my husband’s boxer-shorts on her head last week and shouted “look at my hat”.

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@Nigel_Farage

2 years

I am launching a new campaign to kill of Boris Johnson’s ruinous green agenda. We demand a referendum on Net Zero. Read all about it in the Mail on Sunday.

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@ELPinchbeck

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We’ve lost our way on decarbonisation. We are just 7 years from our 2030 target. But the defeatism that has crept in is wrong. We have forgotten we can still do this. And we always want to talk about power, but it’s heat, transport, land, industry. And there are glimmers of hope

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1 year

A list of corrections from the 5mins of energy debate that was just played on @BBCr4today for their Yesterday in Parliament piece: 1. We still build wind turbines on land, all over the world, and move them by road. (I mean, planning rules set max heights for onshore turbines)

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

@eighttimestable As the CEO of the trade body you’re talking about, I think Naga is brilliant, and I expect to be held to account (even pre-coffee). More info on the energy crisis on my Twitter - better articulated than I managed. Horrified by anyone giving Naga a hard time for doing her job.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

It’s not an official climate change feedback loop but people in SUVs in heatwaves running their engines for the air con whilst parked is a real “cutting your nose off to spite your face” vibe.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

Not going faster on insulation, green heat, renewables, innovative technologies, energy market design, planning reform, storage, H2, abatement, got us into this mess. Having no idea for energy retail beyond customer switching got us into this mess Net Zero is thing we did right

Iain Martin

@iainmartin1

2 years

Net zero groupthink got us into this mess. (My latest @thetimes column)

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4 years

I, a humanities graduate, just gave a speech to one of the UK's most prestigious engineering societies on Net Zero. My central thesis was "effective story tellers are as important than skilled engineers for the energy transition" Know your audience, that's my motto.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

THANK GOD THE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY INDUSTRY WITH ITS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ENGINEERS & EXPERTS HAS BJORN TO TELL US THAT THE WEATHER ISN’T THE SAME EVERY DAY OR WE’D NEVER HAVE CONSIDERED IT.

Bjorn Lomborg

@BjornLomborg

2 years

We're told solar and wind future But when wind is not blowing and sun not shining? Batteries! Yet Europe uses 7.5GWh/minute and has 10.2GWh of battery storage: enough for just 1m:21s 2030: 11m:45s After that, we need 100% backup, mostly fossil fuels

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2 years

Back in the spring, we told HMT repeatedly that as well as immediate help on bills, we could reduce our exposure to gas prices by rolling out insulation, green heating, & rapidly deployable cheap onshore renewables. These are our best chance of reducing bills within next years.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

Air quality is terrible today. In London, poor air is mainly from traffic (plus wood stoves in winter). 60%+ journeys by cars are short (shorter than distance I’m walking to see my midwife at 8 months preggo). “Net Zero” isn’t about climate alone but also health & wellbeing too.

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@ELPinchbeck

6 months

Primarily, I hope they’re still there when I come back out dressed as a clown, accompanied by another clown, and two baby clowns, shortly 😅😭🙃.

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@ELPinchbeck

4 years

Thank you to the Boards of RUK and EUK (& teams) & @GavinEllwood for the way this recruitment was managed: a brilliant example of how to support a very new mum. @RenewableUK @HughMcNealRUK : Stay Classy. I will miss you hugely. @EnergyUKcomms : I’m so excited to get started!

Energy UK

@EnergyUKcomms

4 years

Pleased to announce that @ELPinchbeck will be our new chief executive joining us from @RenewableUK More details here

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1 year

The UK, decades ago, was one of the first countries in the world to build modern wind turbines. Since 2015, a deliberately obstructive planning regime has prevented this cheap, clean power. Onshore wind might finally be coming home. (Yes, I’m only doing football puns now).

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

1 year

NEW hearing that Rishi Sunak is about to carry out a big U-turn and allow onshore wind farms to go ahead

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@ELPinchbeck

26 days

@TutorBradley @GWRHelp Yes, I’m partly tweeting about this infuriating turn of events because I am so fortunate: I’ve got loved ones that flatly couldn’t afford this. Any of it.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

@darrengrimes_ Hi Darren, speaking for the energy industry (all of it, both fossil and renewables) this is incorrect. It is particularly obtuse in the middle of an energy bills crisis that is due to the UK’s over dependence on gas in the economy, and grimly unhelpful when people are struggling

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@ELPinchbeck

3 years

I’m old enough to remember when the same people who are saying heat decarbonisation technologies will be costly and unreliable said the EXACT same about renewables. Renewables today are 1/3 of UK electricity & the cheapest form of energy generation.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

My husband gave me a wind-turbine necklace made from recycled gold for my birthday. He’s heard that renewables and insulation are a solution to the crisis (they don’t make heat pump necklaces) and we need them, as well as urgent support on bills. NO, YOU’RE BORING.

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@ELPinchbeck

7 months

We don’t work on upstream oil and gas at EUK. But given the likely reporting on Rosebank, worth repeating that domestic oil & gas is primarily sold into, and the price is set, in global markets. The long term solution for uk bills & security is in reducing our gas demand.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

Current mood: 😬😬😬😬😬

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

2 years

On Question Time tomorrow night: @Lee4NED , @LucyMPowell , @ELPinchbeck , @campbellclaret and @tnewtondunn . Join us from Hartlepool at 10.35pm on @BBCOne #bbcqt

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

Petition that political commentators with sudden views on energy should have to explain the Levy Control Framework, marginal pricing, Electricity Market Reform, economic externalities, or how to re-wire a plug before they weigh in.

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@ELPinchbeck

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I’m old enough to remember being told that renewables could never do the majority of our generation. It had been an astonishing decade in energy.

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@NationalGridESO

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New low carbon record 🏆🍃 On 5 April at around midday, we achieved a new low carbon intensity record of 21gCO2/kWh, beating the previous record set on 18 September 2023 of 27gCO2/kWh. 💚🌍 📱 Download our carbon intensity app to see real time generation stats and our records…

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@ELPinchbeck

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There is no more perfect analogy for H2 hype in the UK than an organiser arranging a H2 bus for journos, instead of the brand new electric tram the rest of us caught, and then the bus not arriving & a diesel bus arriving instead. H2 is vital, VITAL: just for the right stuff

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@ELPinchbeck

9 months

Really enjoying this weird summer here in the UK whilst a memory of a 2015 lecture by a Met Office scientist being heckled by climate deniers, as she explained that 1.2 degrees of warming in the UK would mean wetter summers plus extreme weather events, plays in a loop in my brain

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@ELPinchbeck

1 year

- Jobs in a sunset industry are not sustainable jobs - UK steel will be (rightly) asked to decarbonise whilst we ship coal to their competitors - “Our coal is cleaner than their coal so it’s actually good” 🙃 - UK climate leadership has focused on global coal phase out

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

@darrengrimes_ Darren, as the spokesperson for the UK’s energy industry (that’s cross-technology by the way), I am confident that you have no idea what you’re talking about. 10/10 for confidence although 0/10 for empathy, given your willingness to be no help whatsoever to billpayers.

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@ELPinchbeck

1 year

8. I KNOW THERE’S NO POINT 2. I edited “we can obviously build turbines” and “we can move them about” into one point at whatever awful time it was when the baby woke up for the third time🤣🫠. The 2 is silent, to represent the energy sector silently screaming into the void.

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@ELPinchbeck

5 years

My father in law just asked me if it was too windy for the UK’s wind turbines to be operational. Pleased to say #renewables are smashing put the majority of the UK’s power right now.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

My neighbour’s sons are big petrol-heads; they’ve got their own car modification business they run from outside their house. This morning at 7am I noticed they were all watching the @FullyChargedShw and lovely @bobbyllew talking about EVs. Nature is healing.

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@ELPinchbeck

10 months

Over 100 Companies write to the PM to tell him that Net Zero is a priority for business and the environment, including members of the Government's new Business Council

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.co.uk

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@ELPinchbeck

3 years

This is reminding me of that time analysts & journalists were telling everyone offshore wind would still be £100mW/h in 2020 & never work and it’s like almost half that cost and renewables are a third of the mix. It’s very 2010s nostalgia.

Harry Cole

@MrHarryCole

3 years

So can you afford Net Zero? -New electric car by 2030: ~£45,000 -No gas boiler by 2035: ~£6-10,000 Even with £5k bung for heat pump and cost of EVs coming down, there's a gaping hole in these documents explaining how this will not disproportionately hit the poorest households.

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@ELPinchbeck

10 months

Most people don’t know that oil and gas extraction is heavily subsidised by most states in the form of tax breaks. Meanwhile, EUK has been asking HMT for the windfall tax on renewables to AT LEAST have similar investment & capital allowances as the oil & gas version now does…

Mary Portas

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Hey @Jeremy_Hunt We give oil and gas companies £42 million each week in tax breaks! Why not #savetheplanet instead? #climatefight

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If I can be permitted a moment of joy in a grim time, you should have seen the shocked look on my toddler’s face when SHE was woken up by ME at 6.30, fully dressed and ready for the day after doing morning media. Turns out you can out-play a player.

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@ELPinchbeck

3 months

If you want to stand up for ordinary people, particularly after an energy crisis where so many of our most vulnerable were punished by the UK's over reliance on imported gas for heat, I wouldn't cut an important heat pump policy after the grimmest kind of incumbency lobbying.

Jan Rosenow

@janrosenow

3 months

Over the weekend we heard that the UK government was considering scrapping the Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM). How important is this? >1/3 of the 2028 heat pump target is supposed to be achieved through the CHMM. Scrapping it leaves a large hole. A few thoughts in this🧵

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@ELPinchbeck

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@sophielouisecc It’s gonna blow your mind when you find out the embedded emissions of a traditional power plant, then. Lifecycle emissions for wind turbines are far below the life cycle emissions for other plant. Weirdly, we’d thought of that. But no, we don’t make them from cobwebs and magic.

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@ELPinchbeck

4 years

Dunno how many other new CEOs have had to be like “Excuse me whilst I just go and feed my child so we can keep going with this introductory chat without her screaming in my ear” when meeting their colleagues...🤦‍♀️😬 Back to work for @EnergyUKcomms in July! 💃🤯

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@ELPinchbeck

4 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s whole system change, not single technology unicorns, that we need to throw our support behind for tackling climate change.

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@ELPinchbeck

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… he said “Well all of that is someone else’s problem, not my problem: I need my heating on” Honestly, bit speechless. (He did turn it off though, possibly because he eventually detected the “I will phone either the police or your mother” vibe, as I wrote down his license).

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@ELPinchbeck

1 year

Finland, with their famously warm winters.

Jan Rosenow

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1 year

BREAKING: Heat pump market in Finland grew by 50% in 2022. 1.5m heat pumps have now been installed in a country with just 2.7m households.

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The only movie that the toddler has shown any interest in is Monsters Inc, which is basically about an energy crisis that gets solved by transitioning to a new energy system. That’s my girl.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

Last day with @EnergyUKcomms before mat leave 😥😳🫣. Pls follow: @jhmsanders @Dhara__Vyas @EnergyCharles @knockalaughta . I’ll be around (gas crisis) but for now I will mainly be trying to remember how babies work Many thanks for all the kindness & support for me & team

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

Whilst it is brilliant to see 20 MPs worrying about what we can do to help customers with energy bills this spring, green policies are not the cause of current bill rises, in fact quite the opposite and so some nuance is required here (a thread).

Gas prices: MPs and peer urge PM to act on energy bills

Five ex-ministers are among those saying Boris Johnson should cut VAT and green levies to help households.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@ELPinchbeck

10 months

Heat pumps are one of those ones where UK politicians think that doing X in energy would be new, untested, or bold & actually it's just a thing everyone else is already doing, often faster than we are. See also: heat pumps, EVs, smart meters, demand side & innovative services etc

Jan Rosenow

@janrosenow

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NEW ANALYSIS: Only 55,000 heat pumps were sold in the UK last year, compared with more than 620,000 in France. Twenty other European countries also had higher installation rates than the UK. New report by @CharitableMCS .

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Also, a kind journalist who was at No 10 sent me this (🥰🙏): a pic of me taking bump to meet the PM about renewables. So I can show this to my son one day & tell him that I worked with many, many good people, who tried their best to make things better - & I hope, succeeded.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

@EnergyUKcomms was at this roundtable and it is true that the PM offered (rightly) his commitment to UK wind power as critical to reducing our dependence on expensive gas, and industry was there to offer ideas for how we can speed up the deployment of renewables.

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I’m in an electric cab on the way to a meeting; the driver is a massive fan: - “it’s better to drive, quiet, cleaner, cheaper”. - “saving the polar bears was way down on my agenda but someone recently showed me the soot that came out of a Euro6 Diesel engine and now I’m sold”.

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@ELPinchbeck

4 years

Turns out there was an early ish onshore wind turbine powering the Glasto legends stage in 1994. I was in primary school. Today wind turbines are the size of sky scrapers, and provide a quarter of UK power. And I’m CEO of the UK’s energy trade body. Anything is possible.

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@ELPinchbeck

5 years

A month ago I found out I was following 68% men on climate and energy twitter. So I've been following cool women on my timeline. Work in progress but now a 55/45 split. You can measure your own social media here: #genderdiversity #WomenInStem @_PfWomen

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@ELPinchbeck

1 year

If we went to build a secure, clean, cheap energy system and tackle climate change, it is vital to use energy - even green energy- more efficiently, across the economy. I am delighted to join the Government’s Energy Efficiency Taskforce. Ideas welcome

Government announces team of leading experts to boost energy efficiency

Government announces members of Energy Efficiency Taskforce following first meeting.

www.gov.uk

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@ELPinchbeck

9 months

A bit over the “it’s oil and gas or blackouts” commentary already. Energy security is as much about clean technologies & efficiency, reducing our reliance on volatile gas (all o&g is sold on global markets). Hope to hear a rounded plan for energy from PM this week.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

For extra “scream into the void” fun you can wander around a Victorian metropolis with one of the best public transport systems in the world and count how many people are driving SUVs to run short errands (80% of London car journeys are < 3 miles; 60% of those < 1 miles)

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I'm a powerful woman (including that I'm a giant) but my husband used to collect me from the tube at night when I was pregnant. Why? I couldn't run, & I'd been hassled enough that not being able to run made me too afraid. It's ALL WOMEN & it's not us that need to change, thanks.

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My mum is sat in my kitchen whilst I’m cooking for the week (I have Friday afternoons off with the baby, who is asleep). She’s just been emailed a petition about Solar (from who knows where): “But why doesn’t government just make builders do solar and insulation for new houses?”

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Realised that watching climate denialism propagandists the Global Warming Policy Foundation “rebrand” as @NetZeroWatch yesterday is like when my toddler hides her head under a blanket and thinks if she can’t see us, we can’t see her.

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

Christmas trees use more farmland than solar. Or strawberries and other vegetables, for that matter. (Solar can be made to work for grazing, FYI).

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@DrSimEvans

2 years

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

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It is true that we need a clear plan for gas & for making sure the grid is secure & run cheaply It is incorrect that the cause of uk high bills is renewables. The reason bills are higher here is that we burn a lot of gas, particularly for heat. Renewables are a cure, not cause.

David Frost

@DavidGHFrost

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My column in @Telegraph this morning - an appeal for the next government to be honest about the problems, the trade-offs, & the actually feasible solutions to our many problems.

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Thanks to @CarbonBrief for providing me with the most depressing climate change hook possible on which to hang the news that I'm pregnant.

Climate crisis: today’s children face lives with tiny carbon footprints

Next generation must keep their own carbon levels at a fraction of their grandparents’ in order to prevent catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

I don’t want to hear it about heat pumps being noisy. For one thing, they aren’t if properly installed (people said the same thing about wind turbines with zero evidence, FYI). Secondly, the boiler has woken my child up 3 mornings in a row, despite being in the loft😠🙄🥶

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2 months

Nothing says “humans can’t really process climate change is happening” like watching everyone in the City dressed for what they expect February to be (winter coats, scarves) when it’s roughly the temperature of a late April day here. I include myself in this. We’re an odd species

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A column about energy and net zero in @thetelegraph that deserves to be read widely: “Britain needs green energy rearmament as a matter of national economic survival”.

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Shield your eyes from the dystopian horror of this diverse happy community watching our children play on a street closed to traffic. There’s a corner shop where neighbours walked to get extra crisps: 15 min cities are actually a scam so Big Crisp can get more of your £££ Etc

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6. The North Sea basin is a declining basin and its oil & gas is sold onto an international market. Unless we’re nationalising it, relying on increased extraction to solve UK security of supply in the short run is relatively pointless & in the long run is absolutely pointless

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This is such a weird piece of journalism. We’ve got 4 of these on our street and all the chat on the street WhatsApp is “when can we get more cycle spaces?”. There’s 1 outside my house and it stores bikes for 5 different households.

Fury at council's 'woke' £500K scheme to scrap parking spaces for bicycles

FUMING residents have blasted a council’s “woke” £500,000 scheme to scrap parking spaces to make way for new cycle hangars. Drivers say the plans to create 150 hangars will mean they are unable to …

www.thesun.co.uk

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

There is a an old saying “if you think the costs of education are too great, try ignorance… well, if you think the costs of net zero are too great, imagine the impacts of not doing it” says @KwasiKwarteng in his speech this evening to British business.

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7 years

Times Editorial this morning.

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2 years

Humans are very very bad at imagining how society might change - and often a bit resistant to the idea it does - but I think all the time about how we shifted whole landscapes, cities & lifestyles have changed massively, all around one tech: the ICE car.

Prof. Frank McDonough

@FXMC1957

2 years

Amazing film of London in 1924.

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5 months

Disappointed to see @bbcquestiontime framing climate change with inclusion of Hitchens. His views on energy are flatly inaccurate, and often have to be corrected. I had meetings with investors this week: all raised recent UK sceptical narrative on net zero. Confusion reigned 😬👀

BBC Question Time

@bbcquestiontime

5 months

Update: On Question Time tonight, Fiona will be joined by Johnny Mercer, Anneliese Dodds, George Monbiot and Peter Hitchens Join us and an audience from Petersfield live on @BBCiPlayer from 8pm or on @BBCOne after the 10 o'clock news #bbcqt

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@ELPinchbeck

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@afneil The UK once had a leading edge in renewables over the rest of the world, and curiously the same people saying that there’s no point investing in UK renewables now China is a world leader argued that the UK shouldn’t invest 10yrs ago because China & US would never do the same… 🧐

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

98 months to cut emissions by 45% to get to 1.5 degrees, points out @ChiefExecCCC . It will slip out of view in the next few years. And 1.5 degrees, BTW, is about vulnerable countries and peoples - it is a moral target, not just a scientific/technical one.

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3 years

My friends and family often text me photos of wind turbines, apropos of nothing, like I’m their proud mum and need to know what they’re up to. It’s the content we’re all here for.

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@ELPinchbeck

1 year

We took the small humans to the London transport museum (a busman’s holiday, if you will!) and the exhibition reminded me there’s nothing that new about net zero: History has a habit of repeating itself. A fun thread 🧵

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@ELPinchbeck

6 months

Dress like a member of the Tudor Court if you’re going to advocate for a 21st century economy, that’s my motto.

Times Radio

@TimesRadio

6 months

“The UK is going to be bottom of the largest eight economies in the world for investment into the clean energy transition by 2030.” @ELPinchbeck warns that the UK needs to be more “focused on technologies for today” rather than oil and gas. #TimesRadio | @mariellaf1

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By the time he’s 8 years old, the UK will have 50GW of offshore wind… Cracking baby outfit @jhmsanders @njr44 , I’ll try to stop him from being sick on it immediately. @EnergyUKcomms

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@ELPinchbeck

6 years

Breaking from my usual content to remind everyone that the most trafficked animal in the world is one you've probably never heard of. Here's your handy guide to identifying endangered #Pangolins for #NationalWildlifeDay

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I will admit to some prior scepticism but I think this is genuinely a better way of travelling with kids than by car. And @GWRHelp have been great. Happy weekend everyone!

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@ELPinchbeck

2 years

OPEC throwing their toys out of the pram about renewables tells you that the mentions of fossil fuel subsidies and coal in the Glasgow Pact are a big shift, and they don’t like it.

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@QuarryAli @GWRHelp It would have been £12k if a very nice member of GWR staff hadn’t told some to ask for a split ticket season ticket. In itself, crackers bureaucracy.

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