Interesting discussion. When you were talking about the competition in infrastructure delivery I completely agree. At the EA we've created a self fulfilling prophecy of no competition in the market (when there can be) with our single supplier framework arrangements and suppliers take advantage.
Scatter chart shows UK industries as dots. The x-axis is their electricity consumption as a share of turnover. The y-axis is the industry's share of GVA. Manufacturing industries are coloured blue, services are green.
I'm getting worried about the narrative about how big a problem high electricity costs are for UK businesses.
Whenever I look at the data... there are just hardly any industries spending more than a few per cent of their turnover on electricity.
Agreed, this has to be big in scale to make it interesting. Also the comparison to lithium-ion may not be the correct benchmark with new battery tech coming to market. Donut industries stuff around solid state has gone a little quiet since the CES announcement.
Extraordinary. Think about it every day at the moment.
Oh I agree - I was working on the Code for Sustainable Homes at BRE at the time and when they 'cut the green crap' we lost a pipeline to have go to zero carbon homes nearly a decade ago just because they got lobbied into it. They even stopped local authorities setting standards beyond building regs
Its a downside of legal precedent being the basis of everything that happens in the UK. Everything is up for debate and continually changing. Also thatcher completely gutting the state really changed how we very everything other than the NHS.
There are papers drawing comparisons and there are differences between countries. The fundamental difference is that the state has a strong role through plans and regulations. If proposals adhere to these there isn't all the committee drama and debate about legislation and policy interpretation.
I'm a chartered town planner myself but ive essentially left the sector as I find it all a bit depressing, the quality/design of all these new urban extensions is just depressing. For planners it's all turned into legal arguments around interpretation of policy and case law most of the time.
I agree market adjustments are needed also through and tax. No one ever talks about land agents who are co-ordinating with those looking to release land and taking a cut. The local plan allocation process asks the market how towns and cities should grow, why! The Europeans don't build like this...
On the back of SDS's and local plans the government/lLAs should be assembling the land for houses and infrastructure. If land is identified it should be CPO'd. At the EA we scope out what we want, contractors build to our needs. Housing should be the same, the state is the client.
Zubimendi other than 2 sloppy errors has been excellent and added a few goals we weren't expecting. He's basically played every game so I'm not surprised a few mistakes creep in.
I just signed this petition calling on Prince William to end the rent on Dartmoor Prison while it remains empty and unsafe and save millions in public money. It only takes a few seconds - please add your name. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on:
* Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc
AND
* Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero
I kid you not, it is that stupid
Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity
This is turning into one of the biggest Zoom meetings since the pandemic. Don't forget to register in advance if you want to join. 1400 GMT *this Friday* (December 5th): us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We need to upgrade the grid but could need to build far less if they introduced regional pricing and encouraged development where the power is!
Great Britain wastes £180,000 every hour switching off wind turbines and overpaying gas generators to switch on. That's £1,342,787,337 so far this year! wastedwind.energy
Going to give this a Saturday morning plug.
If you want a little dive into the hottest topic in the energy world right now - whether we can still blame gas for high energy bills - this is your piece
There's lots more in the blog, including why it's not as a simple as "non-commodity costs are all down to net zero" either.
Thanks to @mashley.bsky.social for doing a lot of the analysis behind this (which you'll hopefully see more of soon!)
GB is actually a lot higher in this area than I realised.
Not quite sure I would say asking just under 8,000 people a mega poll... also we've got nearly 4 years to go. As much as I don't like labour policy on a lot of things right now things can change a lot (I can only hope)
Luckily I don't think anyone cares about what he or any conservative says on this. They seem to think that just saying the opposite of what they did in gov will win back votes. I'm surely also they are taking the last dregs of fossil fuel money they can get.
Nketiah scored 35 goals for arsenal - Is that correct? Seems a bit high.
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China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels.
The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants.
Excellent
I wish that were true but I fear that the majority of people don't really read their policies and pledges!
Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea …
#EMobility
Why every Sankey diagram you've ever seen is wrong. open.substack.com/pub/mliebrei...
Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage?
BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country.
Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right?
BBC:
Lib Dems: Right?
I just don't think he suits the current generation of cars. The margins are so tight. Also F1 is just terrible to watch now... Who wants to watch the same drs overtakes for 60 laps.
“Decades of failed privatisation. From soaring water bills to crumbling rail services ... ordinary people pay the price”
@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
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