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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 19h

As recently as 2010 fossil fuels made up over 70% of UK electricity suppyl, now they are below 30%. Our electricity gets cleaner and cleaner. via www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

UK electricity supply showing fossil fuels falling from nearly 100% in 1920 to close to 33% by 2023

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 1d

'Bunhill Heat and Power Network (BHPN) is the first scheme in the world to take waste heat from an underground train network and use it to provide lower carbon heating' www.islington.gov.uk/environment-...

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 1d

'Bunhill Heat and Power Network (BHPN) is the first scheme in the world to take waste heat from an underground train network and use it to provide lower carbon heating' www.islington.gov.uk/environment-...

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Reader David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 5d

UK Power networks to use heat from data centres to heat homes and replace gas boilers www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/news/uk-powe... See also: 'How data centres will cut carbon emissions, not increase them' davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-data-c...

UK Power Networks helping SHIELD vulnerable customers from Fuel Poverty

Customers struggling with energy bills could soon benefit from low-cost heating, thanks to an award-winning UK Power Networks innovation that re-uses heat from mini data centres.

www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 3d

'How wind power cuts UK wholesale electricity prices' via @davidtoke.bsky.social davidtoke.substack.com/p/how-wind-p...

How wind power cuts UK wholesale electricity prices by a quarter

A new analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) has calculated that in 2024 UK wholesale electricity prices would have been over 30 per cent higher if there had been no wind power ge...

davidtoke.substack.com

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 3d

66% of electricity is from wind this evening. Nice!

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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 6d

@tomhayesmp.bsky.social … this is a promising idea and worth doing elsewhere, I suggest.

Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 6d

Coming soon from Bracknell Library.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 4d

Windy out there? Nearly 73% of our electricity late on Friday night is renewable. grid.iamkate.com #NetZero #LoveNetZero

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 6d

Coming soon from Bracknell Library.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 10d

Recommended read: For @nytimes.com, the @asiapolicy.asiasociety.org's Li Shuo wrote that China was “the adult in the room on climate now”, despite its “modest” new pledge.

Opinion | China Is Promising a Lot More Clean Energy While America Is Lost

While the West is distracted and divided, China is focused and surging ahead.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 8d

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-gre... #NetZero #LoveNetZero

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 11d

'Electric vehicle fleet saving Wiltshire Council more than £54,000 this year' www.wiltshire.gov.uk/news/electri... #EVs #ElectroState #NetZero #LoveNetZero

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 10d

Food waste accelerates climate change but food waste can be collected and used to produce renewable energy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ko... #FoodWaste #Methane #Climatechange

The food waste journey

YouTube video by Bracknell Forest Council

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 10d

Food waste accelerates climate change but food waste can be collected and used to produce renewable energy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ko... #FoodWaste #Methane #Climatechange

The food waste journey

YouTube video by Bracknell Forest Council

www.youtube.com

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 10d

4 yrs ago today, September 28, 2021 – Greta Thunberg and “blah blah blah”

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Greta Thunberg has excoriated global leaders over their promises to address the climate emergency, dismissing them as “blah, blah, blah”.

She quoted statements by Boris Johnson: “This is not some expensive, politically correct, green act of bunny hugging”, and Narendra Modi: “Fighting climate change calls for innovation, cooperation and willpower” but said the science did not lie.

Carbon emissions are on track to rise by 16% by 2030, according to the UN, rather than fall by half, which is the cut needed to keep global heating under the internationally agreed limit of 1.5C.

“Build back better. Blah, blah, blah. Green economy. Blah blah blah. Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah,” she said in a speech to the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. “This is all we hear from our so-called leaders. Words that sound great but so far have not led to action. Our hopes and ambitions drown in their empty promises.”

‘Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis | Climate crisis | The Guardian

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 21d

Disruptive innovation is a term popularised by the American academic Clayton Christensen.

This is a prime example: learning effects lead to reduced cost of solar leading to more adoption resulting in more learning effects because of modularisation.

Killer graph from @ember-energy.org

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11d

In 2005 I spent 5 months in Ecuador investigating oil extraction.

Around then German bank WestLB funded a new Andes pipeline despite past spills.

What I saw was shocking and mostly unseen. This 2022 video shows just one example of repeated spills poisoning rivers and communities.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 11d

If you are interested in Wiltshire County Council have a look at wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltshi... or at their official site here www.wiltshire.gov.uk

Wiltshire Council - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 11d

If they are charging this morning, Wiltshire County Council's existing fleet will be on nearly 50% renewable energy

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 11d

'Electric vehicle fleet saving Wiltshire Council more than £54,000 this year' www.wiltshire.gov.uk/news/electri... #EVs #ElectroState #NetZero #LoveNetZero

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11d

As we scale up renewables, one thing becomes crystal clear: without storage, the energy transition will stall.

Batteries aren’t just for cars. They’re also crucial for grids, industry, and heating.

Great short from DW.

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 12d

Interconnections have a vital role in preventing outages and aiding recovery ⚡

Poland avoided two major blackouts in 2020 and 2021 thanks to its cross-border links.

http://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/new-lines-of-defence-how-interconnectors-keep-the-lights-on/

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 12d

Through the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, you could get a grant to cover part of the cost of replacing fossil fuel heating systems with a heat pump or biomass boiler. www.gov.uk/apply-boiler...

Apply for the Boiler Upgrade Scheme

You could get a grant to install a heat pump or biomass boiler. Find out if you’re eligible and how to apply.

www.gov.uk

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 13d

This is a 'small' lignite mine on the former GDR border, the scar is so deep and wide. With it's own cloud ceiling in the morning. 150Mt CO2 emitted and it still emits by sitting there with exposed, once sequestered carbon.
Burning stuff is the past. Don't live in the past.

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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 11d

Sounds great.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12d

Evidence over noise.

At Oxford Energy Day I argued for policy led by data, not click-bait, point-scoring, or misinformation.

Great discussion on how to use data better, where gaps remain, and the benefits evidence can unlock.

Full recording available soon!

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