MP & Chair of PRASEG Alan Brown joined us at the Livingston factory for a tour & discussion on growth of heat pump installation.

Alan Brown MP, Russell Dean, Rodney Ayre & Achilleas Georgiou

.Iberdrola has set out record plans to invest £8bn+ in the UK’s electricity networks and renewable power over the next 3 years.

That’s more than in Spain, Germany, France and Australia combined.

Global investors are backing Britain. iberdrola.com/press-room/new…

Very proud to announce Solar Energy UK's latest and biggest survey yet of biodiversity on solar farms. It demonstrates how action on nature and carbon reduction can go hand in hand - and also features some awesome photos. solarenergyuk.org/news/wildlife-…

Some additional context to this @telegraph piece:
- Labour ambition is 100% clean power by 2030
- Conservative ambition is 95% clean power by 2030

this is not a culture war (sorry)

both Tory & Lab plans require rapid rollout of renewables & grid infrastructure.

Some great polling from ECIU 71% of the public support new onshore wind farms in their local area, as opposed to almost half of MPs (47%) *thought* their constituents would oppose ⚡️

Really does show that the public view on #onshorewind has significantly shifted and

One of the UK's top acedemic centres for energy policy is here in the Palace of Westminster. MPs & Peers can meet Durham Energy Institute Director Professor Simone Abram & her brilliant colleagues today in the Upper Waiting Hall.
#RenewableEnergy #EnergyPolicy #WomenInSTEM UK House of Commons

Thanks to PRASEG for organising a great roundtable on #solar and #biodiversity yesterday!

Great to see the enthusiasm from industry and NGOs to do more to tackle the #climate and #nature crises

We've committed to at least 50% biodiversity net gain on all our projects🌞🌻

There is still time to sign up for Monday's PRASEG meeting.
Email [email protected] to register your interest. Chair: Alex Sobel MP 🟣
RSPB Solar Energy The Wildlife Trusts Low Carbon
#solar #nature #biodiversity

Ahead of the UK budget, how popular is #CleanEnergy investment?

On the latest #CleanEnergy Pod, we talk to former No. 10 pollster James Johnson. He's asked 6,016 for their views on the clean energy transition on behalf of SSE.

Head over to our YouTube for the full episode. 📺

Today at the Spring Budget 2024, HM Treasury announced that more than £1 billion of funding will be available for this year’s auction for new clean energy projects (Allocation Round 6), and that £800 million of this will be available for new offshore wind farms.

We welcome this

I tabled an amendment to the Energy Bill that could have reduced methane emissions by 72%.

The government voted it down.

Methane has 80x the warming effect of CO2 - yet the Conservatives are treating our planet like it's expendable.

It is unforgivable.
theguardian.com/environment/20…

PRASEG Chair Alan Brown MP welcomes the report's recommendations:
'It is critical that there is a long-term, joined-up approach to retrofit policies, backed by funding & incentives to deliver low carbon technologies & energy efficiency...'
#NetZero Sustainable Energy Association (SEA)

NEW: Industry leaders have written to Claire Coutinho MP encouraging the gov to keep the clean heat market mechanism, after reports it might be scrapped following 'price gouging' allegations Good Energy OVO Daikin UK Heat Pump Association (HPA)
electrifyheat.uk/letter/letter-…

Confirmation today (no surprises) that the UK outperformed its third carbon budget (CB3).

Under the Act, we are duty bound to offer advice on the handling of any ‘surplus’.

Our analysis and advice to Government will be published on 28th February.

gov.uk/government/new…

Yesterday #wind generated 45.7% of British electricity, more than gas 19.4%, nuclear 11.4%, imports 9.9%, biomass 7.5%, hydro 3.3%, solar 1.8%, coal 1.1%, other 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

Alan Brown MP, PRASEG Chair and host for today’s event, is now kicking off proceedings. Giving an overview of the political landscape, Mr Brown is introducing the importance of this work and its impact.

Read our press release and report here: sustainableenergyassociation.com/the-sea-launch…

#SEAreport

Ending 2023 with our greenest month and a new wind record 🍃🏆 In December, wind provided 41.2% of electricity. We achieved a new maximum wind record of 21.8GW on 21 December between 8 – 8:30am where wind accounted for 56% of our electricity generation. View December’s stats 👇

New report from The Association for Decentralised Energy The MCS Foundation highlights local authority workforce levels are key to effectively deploying retrofit plans.

Brilliant progress on cross-channel cooperation to strengthen regional energy security, capacity, and resilience. National Grid

nationalgrid.com/national-grid-…