At a ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners officially celebrated construction completion of the Zhong Neng offshore wind farm, a joint venture between CIP through its fund Copenhagen Infrastructure IV and China Steel Corporation. energyglobal.com/wind/05092024/…

BMW test drives 'motionless' wind power technology The Aeromine unit “features wing-like vertical airfoils that create a vacuum effect, drawing air behind an internal propeller to generate clean electricity” Read: rechargenews.com/wind/bmw-test-… #SDGs #windpower #energytransition

Dick Winchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kevin McKenna He obviously hasn’t been to Wales. Back of Coal Exchange, Cardiff. World’s first £1m cheque signed & £billions extracted. Wales could have had a wealth fund bigger than Norway’s. Instead we get this & the continuous hollowing-out of our heritage. Blackwood Miners’ Institute & all

From an early age, the UK’s subjects are schooled in selective history. Here, QE I’s spoils from global piratical violence & looting is “Help” as they “brought back riches, from buying & selling overseas”. And c1600 she signed-off on the East India Company - very big baddies.

If so - & it will impact Wales - it’s another lesson in avoiding big policy decisions based on forecasts which now appear to be out of date. A more nuanced/responsive approach is decentralised energy; to avoid blunt, heavy, centralised pathways which might lead to a cul-de-sac.

Not just data centres and not just natural gas. Biomethane (remote contracts available today) can supply the fuel cells & engines, which power (& heat/cool) the energy hungry demands.

Opponents of a controversial company that plans to build a network of wind farms across Wales are not climate change-denying Nimbys but defenders of rural Wales and its economy, says leading campaigner. ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-Nip

E-Methane & biomethane go great together & post 2030 the combination of batteries, electrolysis plant, biogas CO2 and gas grid will be formidable Very good presentation from ⁦⁦Nature Energy⁩ ⁦CNG Services Ltd⁩ ⁦REA⁩ linkedin.com/posts/tjohnbal…

Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ceri Decentralise energy & powers. Blackwood Miners’ Institute, like heritage buildings under threat or hollowed-out across Wales, could site a mini-clean power station to serve the community - & earn money. As could schools, hospitals. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 has all the energy, but we have no powers.

De Cymru/South Wales 🧐

Summary of the presentations from the Dinosaur Era CO2 Event last Thursday CNG Services Ltd linkedin.com/posts/tjohnbal…

This single offshore turbine has produced as much as a ~20MW onshore windfarm. Time for an energy reset Wales?

Dick Winchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Kate Forbes MSP Rachel Reeves This is worth a read too. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/… Only 14% of the global economy is real economic activity, the rest is simply bets placed on that 14%.

Chris Hanlon SNP Kate Forbes MSP Dick Winchester 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Isn’t it clear by now that investing in CAPEX of essential, resilient infrastructure (inc clean energy) & public services reduces OPEX & so also the financial burden on the State? Less RoI for short-term shareholders, perhaps. But less extractive & long-term benefits for people.

Also: “The threat to Europe’s position in clean tech owes mainly to a lack of an industrial strategy equivalent to other major regions.” 👈Higher EU industrial energy costs - even more pronounced for UK. 👉China’s clean tech dominance. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿H2 tech & green gas opp still in play.

Just launched! First-ever assessment of e-methane rollout in Europe. This synthetic renewable fuel will play a key role in Europe’s electricity grid & drive new #biogas - #hydrogen synergies ✅35 operational e-methane plants in Europe ✅20 more on the way bit.ly/47rcg3V

European Hydrogen* & Steel Community would be a good idea. As Draghi report states, EU - & US - way behind China in established clean tech like solar/batteries. US playing catch-up with IRA. But all still to play for with hydrogen/fuel cell/e-fuels 👋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 *Plus other green gases

Use Welsh heritage or lose it So much of the heritage of Welsh history has disappeared. We cannot treasure and learn from what we fail to protect. You can take positive action starting this very day. ✍️ Irram 'Indy' Irshad #FBIW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇰 🇵🇸 bylines.cymru/arts-and-cultu…

BylinesCymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Irram 'Indy' Irshad #FBIW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇰 🇵🇸 “Why don’t we Welsh get worked up over our history?” Probs because we don’t know enough about it. “If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going.” At risk of repetition, here’s a solution for Llancaiach Fawr & which could be repeated across Cymru.

UK Oil & Gas secures key support from Solent Cluster for its Dorset #hydrogen storage project, a major step towards decarbonizing southern UK’s industrial sector with #lowcarbon hydrogen solutions. fcw.sh/DhCnEp #HydrogenNow #FuelCells #CleanEnergy #H2