cool job klaxon.

Our detailed annual deep dive into the global coal plant fleet is out today, with plenty of key insights into how the transition away from the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel is going Global Energy Monitor 🌍🏭🪨📊 🧵👇

It was lovely to catch up with Sepi Golzari-Munro and puzzle out the “what about China?” question together!

NEW: UK Energy Prices to Fall Further Than Previously Forecast

The outlook from Cornwall Insight welcomed by those struggling with cost-of-living. Yet forecasters don’t expect prices to fall back to levels seen before the 2022 energy crunch Bloomberg UK bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Plant trees.

We’re excited to formally launch our Visit a Heat Pump service today - visitaheatpump.com

Thank you to all the generous heat pump owners opening their doors 🙏🏻

Can we decarbonise electricity without disadvantaging poorer families?

Jonathan Brearley Ofgem | Emma Pinchbeck | Jonny Marshall | Torsten Bell

Join the conversation ⤵️
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Chinese solar manufacturers have privileged capacity over margin. They went “over their skis” when it comes to adding new capacity, allowing consumers across the world to benefit from ultra-low prices. Shareholders suffered. Building plants in Europe or the US makes no sense…

Ofgem has approved a new subsea connection cable between northern Scotland and England. ✅⚡️
At over 500km, it would be the longest ever built in Britain, and could transport enough renewably generated energy to power 2 million homes.
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Good read from Pilita Clark on the potentially 'profound' consequences of global emissions peaking

ft.com/content/9b11b1…

Cool (intern) jobs klaxon

4️⃣🚂 Offer a better alternative: This means investing in trains! People overwhelming support making train journeys the same price as flying - and this support barely falls if it means making flying more expensive

Climate change affects us all and the UK is certainly not immune from the impacts.

One of my favourite facts ever🌒
So many incredibly improbable things had to occur to make Earth habitable for life
But the moon being 400x smaller than the sun yet 400x closer to the Earth, giving us rare solar eclipses, is such a fantastical, beautiful, unnecessary coincidence

NEW

Switzerland violated citizens' human rights by failing to act strongly enough on climate change, European Court of Human Rights rules 16-1

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Heat pumps cut gas demand by 2/5 compared to gas boilers even if running on 100% gas power.

This is counter to the false myth that heat pumps using gas generated electricity use more gas than gas boilers.

More in my Carbon Brief heat pump myth buster
carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-m…