Communicator and engineer in low carbon economy & climate change mitigation. CEng. CEnv. No1 fan of @Estherswaff. Thoughts - sustainability, faith, politics.
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Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
🚨Vehicle Registration Data for 2025 🚨
December stats are extraordinary with Electric Cars taking 32.2% market share.
Petrol registrations plummet below 40% market share for the first time and diesel falls to 4.2% of all new registrations.
Hybrids and plug-in hybrids rise as expected.
Petrol market share has fallen below 50% for the year at 46.4% with electric cars climbing to 23.9% market share for the year.
The 28% ZEV mandate target for EVs in 2025 should have been met when Government flexibilities are taken into account.
Internal combustion engine still biggest selling powertrain but growing demand for electrified cars narrows majority to just 51.5%
smmt.co.uk/uk-new-car-market…
Got a couple of meetings in central London on Wednesday the 10th of Dec - any tweeps around for a coffee?
I am hosting a Low Carbon Book Club and our first session will be at the end of this month (date TBC) - more details here - sb-energy.co.uk/bookclub/
Sign up to join a group of people discussing the new book from Bill McKibben!
Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
Watch @tom_bray go through the latest data showing the world's trajectory for solar power, drawing on some of the best of Ember graphics 🌐☀️🤩
youtube.com/watch?v=HawMm1Gq…
I am about to start a mailing list, trying to share Good Energy about the climate transition to my community.
Please do sign up! sb-energy.kit.com/29da4f1850
Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
More solar was installed globally in first 4 months of 2025 than in all of 2022!
New battery storage is also setting global records in 2025.
Wind too likely sets a new global record for deployment in 2025.
EVs have record sales in 2025.
Petrostate politicos freak out.
Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
Thanks to @tom_bray for this excellent video about @Openenergymon HeatPumpMonitor 😀 👏youtube.com/watch?v=2dPZTLVH…
Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
Drax widened its lead as the UK’s largest single source of carbon emissions in 2024, increasing its CO2 pollution by 16%.
Despite subsidy cuts from 2027 onwards, public funds for biomass will likely ensure Drax is STILL the UK’s largest emitter in 2030.
ember-energy.org/latest-insi…
Electrify as much as everything else we can as soon as we can
CCC: UK climate advisers now ‘more optimistic’ net-zero goals can be met | @daisydunnesci @DrSimEvans
Read here: buff.ly/DnNWZcu
Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
CCC: UK climate advisers now ‘more optimistic’ net-zero goals can be met | @daisydunnesci @DrSimEvans
Read here: buff.ly/DnNWZcu
Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
It's 11am on a bank holiday (low demand, sunny) but all of British electricity demand is being met by renewables, with 2.5GW of gas online and 3.5GW of electricity being exported to Europe
Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
🚨 NEW RECORD | Solar OVERTOOK nuclear for the first time globally ☀️
Solar power has TRIPLED in the last five years, from 79 TWh in April 2020 ➡️ to 233 TWh in April 2025 📈⚡️
For more electricity records, check Ember’s new data every month 🔎👇
ember-energy.org/data/electr…
I used to work for the low carbon economy team at DCC, they are some of the most talented, driven, and impactful people I have met, making a real difference on emissions in the County. Find this heartbreaking to read
In Durham, Nigel Farage tells council staff to look for other jobs
Says those working on climate change, diversity or even just from home - "You all better be seeking alternative careers very, very quickly".
More from our live blog here:
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
I hadn’t seen this above 430 before 😬
430.33 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 10-Mar-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu/
Friends in @UKLabour - this is very poor. What’s the plan to decarbonise homes if gas boilers are welcome?
There had previously been an aspiration to end the sale of gas boilers by 2035 but nothing was legally in force. However, without such an end date, which can provide long-term market direction, it is unclear how decarbonising heating by 2050 will happen. theguardian.com/environment/…
Just signed up to @bluesky
bsky.app/profile/tom-s-bray.…
See you over there?
Tom Swaffield-Bray retweeted
Data released today by @CopernicusECMWF shows:
🌡️ It is now virtually certain that 2024 will be the warmest year on record. It is also virtually certain that the annual temperature for 2024 will be more than 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level.
#ClimateCrisis #COP29
Absolutely wonderful in Edinburgh tonight. Would recommend getting to one of the stages still to come!
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Found this a very compelling conversation
overcast.fm/+AAnh1AMbi4c
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