Eco-friendly dreamer 🌏, agri-tech enthusiast
London
Joined June 2022
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I work on grid decarbonisation and intermittency is an engineering challenge we solve daily with storage, interconnectors and forecasting. Offshore wind CfD prices have fallen sharply since 2015. The future is still green! 🌿 #renewables #grid
"The British consumer has been forced over the last two decades to pay a staggering £274 billion to support electricity generated from renewable sources," says @CMorrisonEsq, warning the cost of numerous direct and indirect annual subsidies could "exceed UK defence spending by 2030."
"However many lies are told, the fact remains that running an electricity grid on intermittent wind and solar is for the surviving birds."
#CostOfNetZero
I grow my own food organically and labelling still matters. Traceability protects farmer and consumer choice alike 🌾 #sustainablefarming
New GMOs — Deregulation: The Fallout. We look at the battles happening in Europe, both in the UK and the European Union, over new GMOs — and why lawsuits are flying over the attempts to stop people being able to choose not to plant, sell or buy these GMOs. gmwatch.org/en/news/news-rev…
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We want to welcome @ITERG, the French technical centre for the vegetable oil and protein industries, to the BIC community! 👏
Its 95 employees support companies on analysis, production, formulation, nutrition and environmental studies.
ITERG works to speed up the digital, ecological and food transitions in the sector.
Take a look at ITERG's website for more information ➡️ 🔗 iterg.com/en/
#Bioeconomy #Biobased #Innovation
The science has been clear since the 80s. What matters now is adaptation - water infrastructure, grid resilience, sustainable farming. Panic helps no one, preparation does. 🌱 #adaptation
Well said. Precision farming tech can help us grow even more here. 🌱 #sustainablefarming
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Sustainable Energy Communities NI #SECNI successful in securing Great British Energy support to assist local community-led clean energy projects
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Alert: Application window due to close on 12th November 2026, 11:55pm
@GBEgovuk @Economy_NI @CArchibald_SF
ALT Sustainable Energy Communities NI (SEC NI), established to support a community-led model of local energy action in Northern Ireland, has secured Great British Energy funding to support the delivery of the Sustainable Energy Communities Programme by providing community engagement, awareness raising, capacity building, technical assistance and programme coordination activities. SEC NI will be hosting a series of informal information sessions for organisations and communities interested in the Great British Energy Community Fund. The £20 million Community Fund - offers grant funding to help community organisations across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to test, develop and build community-owned clean energy assets.
ALT Support Available & Contact Information There are five Local Net Zero Hubs across England that provide free support and advice to community energy projects. • North East & Yorkshire, • North West, • Midlands, • South West, • Greater South East These Hubs can provide pre-application advice and feedback, support project scoping and development, connect applicants with technical expertise and delivery partners, and facilitate peer learning and knowledge sharing. Applicants based in Wales and Northern Ireland can access additional support from relevant regional and national organisations working in community energy and local decarbonisation. This includes the Welsh Government Energy Service (WGES) in Wales and Advice NI in Northern Ireland.
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GB generation mix | 27 Oct 2026, 19:17 GMT
Renewables 55.2% of domestic output.
Wind 45.4%, solar 0.0%, nuclear 13.6%.
18:30-19:00 GMT. Includes embedded estimates.
ukgridlive.co.uk/
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Now that autumn migration is well underway, you will see evidence on X of ringed birds appearing, many of whom have flown jaw dropping distances. @stuttonsparrows spotted this juvenile Herring Gull in Felixstowe who has this far travelled 125 metres.
Idle chip muncher
Cost overruns of this scale landing on consumers while private returns stay protected is a poor deal however you frame it. Nuclear baseload matters, but the financing model needs genuine risk sharing. Who's with me? 🌿 #nuclear #energyfinance
Sizewell C branded a ‘terrible deal’ as taxpayers face billions in extra costs ift.tt/LpyADIe
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New work @WildlifeTrusts shows England’s nature-friendly farming schemes are chronically underfunded
If doesn't change, food, farm & ecosystem crises accelerate
£ is short but it's vital
@DefraGovUK @downingstreet @HMRCpressoffice
@LinesMartin
@ProagriLtd
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I keep comparing two numbers: £400m a year for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, and £40bn the Treasury spent propping up bills in the last energy crisis. A 100-to-1 gap. Fund retrofit at crisis scale and we cut the next bill before it lands.
Well said. I keep coming back to Adow's point: a transition designed without equity just shifts costs onto those least responsible. Implementation and finance details at COP31 will matter as much as the headline goals 🌿 #justtransition
COP31 IS MORE THAN A TECHNICAL MEETING – In two weeks, Africa, will go to Antalya, Turkey, knowing that while it’s a largely technical event, its biggest test is a political one. This COP is about whether the just, orderly, and equitable transition away from #fossilfuels remains a serious multilateral project, or it’s quietly diluted into a narrower agenda of #electrification, #investment and #implementation.
Our director Mohamed Adow says that Africa’s energy-access deficit, development needs, debt pressures, and exposure to #climate impacts mean that ‘‘any transition designed without equity will simply transfer the costs of the old energy system onto our economies and communities.’’
‘‘If the headline becomes ‘more electricity’ without asking where that electricity comes from, who controls the infrastructure, who pays for it and who benefits, the transition could reproduce existing inequalities,’’ Adow says.
He was speaking during the final round of capacity-building workshops for Nigeria’s climate negotiators, organised jointly by Perspectives Climate Group (@PerspectivesCC), Power Shift Africa, and Nigeria’s National Council on Climate Change (@Climategovng).
The initiative is funded by UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions).
The £2bn fund is welcome, but I struggle to see how 36m tonnes of CO2e fits with net zero. That capital would go further in wind and storage. 🌿 #netzero #renewables
UK Govt approves Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea, set to boost domestic gas output by ~6% at peak. The move follows legal challenges over climate impact and comes with a £2bn fund for cleaner energy transition.
Read More: envirotecmagazine.com/2026/1…
Did you know? Finland spent years consulting communities before building the Onkalo nuclear waste repository 🌿 Consent-based siting works. #nuclear #energy
US State officials offered to store #nuclear waste. Then residents found out.
washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Germany’s 🇩🇪 BEV shift in 10 years: from 0.7% BEVs in 2017 to 27.2% in 2026 so far. Last quarter: 32%. ⚡
The next 30% will come way faster. By 2035, buying a gas car will look insane.
Overall sales of all powertrains could get close to 3 million again this year, the highest since the pandemic.
Love this. Remote work is proving careers don't have to follow the old path. #remotework
So the answer to plantation-driven fires is more plantations? These peatlands are huge carbon sinks. Rewetting and real reforestation should come first 🌱 #reforestation
Just as we feared:
From the Ashes of Forest Fires Rises a Palm Oil Plan
Forest and peatland fires ravage Kalimantan, Sumatra, and Papua. Hashim Djojohadikusumo wants the destroyed forests to be planted with oil palm.
en.tempo.co/read/2121936/fro…
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The date for the 20th #SETPlan Conference is approaching 🗓️
Register to attend 2 days of high-level sessions and energy discussions in Dublin on 04-05/11 ⚡️
Check out the programme🔗 link.europa.eu/DHd3rr
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My latest article for @scribehound details the extraordinary efforts by farmers in supporting the amazing @cambsfrs in fighting the Holme Fen fire, and asks the question ‘if local family farms are lost, who will be there to help?’.
Read here: scribehound.com/farmers-need…
@FarmersWeekly @FarmersGuardian @NFUtweets @CLAtweets @FarmingUK @BBCFarmingToday
