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At a People's Emergency Briefing on Dartmoor, I told the village a wind turbine could sell it power for 10p
We pay 26p. The room was astonished. Then came the harder part: heat is 42% of Britain's energy, heat pumps need £200bn up front, and wind and solar are…
Oct 29
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What’s wrong with NESO’s solar forecasts?
For two years it expected too little sun. Then it overcorrected, five weeks before the heatwave. None of the reports into 23 June mentions it.
Oct 28
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Microsoft Walked Away From Loughton. The Grid Data Points to One Substation.
Data for every supergrid substation in Britain: Loughton's is booked up, the wait is ordinary, and near Slough data centres have already added 148 MW…
Oct 27
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Is there a dash for solar?
Solar deployment is running ahead of the grid, electrification and other generation types.
Oct 26
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Am I just a heat pump perfectionist?
It keeps a Dartmoor prefab warm and my bills tiny. But the heat pump community helped me spot something no app or annual service would have, and I can't…
Oct 23
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A £2,000 cap on salary sacrifice would cost a Renault 5 driver £606 a year and raise HMRC up to £1 billion
Britain's electric company cars cost the Treasury £1.4 billion a year, and nobody publishes the bill. The cap is the one the Chancellor already set for…
Oct 22
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How to make Jackdaw help billpayers
The Energy Secretary says Jackdaw won't cut bills. It will make Britain money in a crisis, but the money goes to the Treasury. A contract for difference…
Oct 21
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Chuckle Brothers: To me, to you
Britain told France the opposite of what it meant on 23 June. Three reports later: what they found, what they missed, and what December's final report…
Oct 21
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Britain would switch off its power stations before it cut off one gas boiler
On the highest gas demand day in five years, gas plant was generating the equivalent of 64% of Britain's electricity. In a shortage it goes before any…
Oct 20
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Why Britain's gas plants are telling the grid less, later
I tested the obvious explanations for this autumn's shortage of gas in the South East. Age and overruns explain little. Running less, stopping and…
Oct 19
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I cooked Sunday lunch on Britain's cleanest power of the day and filled my kitchen with CO2
The grid was at 70 g/kWh. The kitchen hit 1,180 ppm. Nineteen days of sensors on what an all-electric, low-carbon home does to the air inside it.
Oct 17
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England's east has gained 200 hours of sunshine a year. The west has barely moved.
2026 was a record sunny year for southern England, not for Britain. Behind it sits a 35-year split, with the east brighter, warmer and drier and the…
Oct 16
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