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Dan Grey

@dangrey.bsky.social

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Energy and transitioning from fossil fuels. Complex issues I try to shine a light on. Ex-UKAEA and Met Office. Occasionally politics Exeter, UK

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · May 9

So Ørsted has canned the Hornsea 4 wind farm project – what does that mean for the pipeline of offshore wind farms between now and 2030?

Not all that much...

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · May 7

Orsted, majority-owned by the Danish government, has decided to cancel the 2.4 GW Hornsea 4 offshore wind farm. The final investment decision had been expected later this year – they've taken it early, and it's a negative.

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Ørsted discontinues Hornsea 4 offshore wind project

Ørsted has announced it will discontinue construction on its Hornsea 4 offshore wind project in the UK, despite recently securing a Contract for

www.energyvoice.com

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 5h

The Daily Telegraph give free subscriptions to university students and that's... Not good

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 7h

The booo-beep of BBC Micro turning on is one of the most evocative memories of my childhood

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 8h

Cards for what computers?

I love early MOSFET computers. My family had a BBC Model B (which I believe makes us posh?). We still have it but I don't know if it works

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 8h

When oil demand starts falling appreciably they'll be in a right pickle; that's an existential threat for the Gulf autocracies (which will be awesome lol)

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe? OPEC+ members are trying to walk a tightrope of maintaining or increasing market share in competition with the US, but also keeping prices up. They want to drive US shale oil out of the market but not at the expense of their own revenue

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe the best hope is that as oil and gas infrastructure ages the cost of keeping it working will hold up fossil fuel prices even as demand falls.

One thing's for sure: you'd be an idiot to invest in oil and gas.

Most investors do know this 👇✅

A chart from the international Energy agency showing that clean energy Investments have increased from 44% of the total in 2015 to 67% of the total global investment in energy in 2025

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 11h

Stepping back;

Powering cars and heating buildings is cheaper with electricity generated from wind and sun than using oil and gas

So global oil and gas demand will fall

So oil and gas prices will fall

So... at some point the price of oil and gas will reach an equilibrium with wind and solar 🫤

Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · Jun 23

Interested in 4,000 words about how the US LNG industry is setting itself up for economic disaster?

The End of the U.S. LNG Bubble

For the U.S. LNG industry to make money it will require many factors all to align in the "Goldilocks Window" and that outcome is highly unlikely.

powering-the-planet.ghost.io

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Article, which talks to producers and distributors, suggests that Brexit may well have something to do with it. Surely not?

‘Vicious cycle’: the UK’s struggle with soaring food prices

Living wage rises and planning system woes are driving price increases, say producers

www.ft.com

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 1d

That's certainly the case with my dad. And it's hard to disagree; he built it!

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not seeing anything bad here, DESNZ are also moving to make the auction more competitive. It looks to me similar to the pre-AR7 reforms – lift the price cap (ASP for AR7), but make the auction tighter

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digitaldjeli @digitaldjeli.bsky.social · 3d

The dead children of #Gaza - it's really important that @theguardian.com published this. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 2d

Why would electrification increase the energy:GDP ratio? Surely it's the opposite?

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 2d

Well, that's one way of handling global ecosystem collapse

Block publication of research that might raise awkward questions about whether UK govt is doing enough about it

Can't see any flaws in that approach....

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 2d

"Party in the media"?

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 3d

Unfair headline. The error was HMRC's, not ONS's, and that should be made clear

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 3d

– 5-6 Mt of virgin steel is made in the UK a year
–2-3 Mt is exported (80% to EU)
– 6-7 Mt is imported
– 8-9 Mt of scrap is exported

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 3d

As steel is in the #r4today news again this is your regular reminder that the UK exports much more scrap steel for recycling abroad than it produces virgin steel domestically.

More than anything else, we need new electric arc furnaces in the UK so scrap steel van can be recycled here

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 4d

Tbh I don't think he made much of a go of it/had a chance to, wasn't he shuffled out pretty quickly? Plus Labour doesn't need to worry what southern Tory/LD MPs think

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 4d

"not raising [a tax]" is not an achievement. In our current situation, it's an abdication of leadership.

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 5d

I'm really really sorry to hear that 😞.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

Dear Gods of all that is stupid...

IT'S REAL.

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 5d

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 5d

So this is because the pub is a "non-designated local heritage asset", a classification available to LPAs through annex 2 of the NPPF. Due to case law they're afforded a very high level of protection despite being invariably very ordinary buildings.

This classification should be scrapped, end of!

Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 5d

There are another three(!) advice notes and guidance documents to 'help" LPAs draw up local lists of such assets 🤦

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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 5d

Quite a lot of case law set by judges too – who invariably take a very conservative point of view

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