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ECIU @eciu.net · 15m

🔎Two out of three of the UK's worst harvests on record have occurred this decade after extreme wet weather, with the worst in 2020 and third worst in 2024.
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Year's worth of British bread lost this decade as extreme weather…

New analysis suggests that wheat production is down by the equivalent of over a year’s supply of bread for the UK, after extreme weather hits harvests

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ECIU @eciu.net · 15m

Solar panel efficiency record broken in big boost for renewable energy

Scientists in Sydney have smashed the efficiency record for a new type of solar panel, using the 'miracle material' perovskite.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 1h

COP30, Belém - what to expect

With not long to go before the world gathers in Brazil for the next UN climate summit, we look ahead to what COP30 has in store.
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COP30, Belém - what to expect

With not long to go before the world gathers in Brazil for the next UN climate summit, we look ahead to what COP30 has in store.

https://eciu.net/insights/2025/cop30-belém-what-to-expect

ECIU @eciu.net · 1h

Heating engineers urged to sign up to heat pump ‘giveaway’ for their own homes

The ‘start at home’ initiative aims to boost roll out of the clean technology that will be key to phasing out fossil fuel home heating.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 2h

One year’s worth of bread lost in UK to wrecked harvests since 2020

Worsening droughts and floods have destroyed wheat for 4bn loaves of bread and forced record levels of imports.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 3h

New @eciu.net analysis has quantified the savings to electricity costs that wind power is delivering. Simon Cran-McGreehin, @eciu.net commented:

"Things could have been even worse during the peaks of the gas crisis, had it not been for renewables"
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ECIU @eciu.net · 3h

Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

Research by YouGov showed some politicians had ‘grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts, according to investment body.
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Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

Research by YouGov showed some politicians had ‘grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts, according to investment body.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 3h

New @ECIU_UK analysis of UK harvest data suggests that extreme weather so far in the 2020s has played a major role in creating a total deficit in wheat production of over seven million tonnes.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 20h

Thousands of homes face fourth night without power in wake of Storm Amy

SSE Networks said “challenging” network faults were still being addressed in parts of the Highlands, Argyll and Mull as nearly 5,000 homes faced a fourth night without power in the wake of Storm Amy on Friday.

Thousands of homes face fourth night without power in wake of Storm Amy

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said “challenging” network faults were still being addressed in parts of the Highlands, Argyll and Mull.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 21h

How politicians and passengers gave up on greener air travel

Push for economic growth has added to technological challenges and problems with carbon offset schemes, with hydrogen-powered planes decades from commercial viability, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in its infancy.

How politicians and passengers gave up on greener air travel

A renewed push for economic growth has added to technological challenges and problems with carbon offset schemes

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ECIU @eciu.net · 22h

🔎Less than 16%

Proportion of carbon credits found to have delivered real reductions in GHG emissions according to analysis included in a review of 25-years of evidence on carbon offsets that concluded "almost everything up until this point has failed.”
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Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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ECIU @eciu.net · 22h

Chinese EV giant BYD sees UK sales soar by 880%

BYD says it sold 11,271 cars in the UK last month, after figures from the car industry body the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showed that sales of electric vehicles (EVs) jumped to a record high in September.

BYD: Chinese EV giant sees UK sales soar by 880%

The Shenzhen-based electric car maker says the UK is now its biggest market outside China.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 23h

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and cutting costs

New analysis suggests day-ahead wholesale prices in 2024 could have been up to 33% higher if there had been no large-scale wind capacity.
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Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…

Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 23h

Groups sue EPA over canceled $7 billion solar program intended to help poorer Americans

Several groups and nonprofit organisations filed a lawsuit against the US EPA over the canceling of a $7 bn programme to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

COP30, Belém - what to expect

With not long to go before the world gathers in Brazil for the next UN climate summit, we look ahead to what COP30 has in store.

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COP30, Belém - what to expect

With not long to go before the world gathers in Brazil for the next UN climate summit, we look ahead to what COP30 has in store.

https://eciu.net/insights/2025/cop30-belém-what-to-expect

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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

China is beating the US in the battle for energy export dominance

The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July. China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
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China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

Global solar and wind power surges despite US green cuts under Trump

The IEA has cut in half its forecast for renewable energy growth in US this decade, and upgraded its forecast for India by 10%, putting it on track to become the 2nd largest renewables growth market after China.

Global solar and wind power surges despite US green cuts under Trump

Renewable energy held back in world’s biggest economy while growing in India, the Middle East and Africa

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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

Renewables overtake coal globally for the first time on record - world finally reaching a 'crucial turning point' in shift to clean power

Despite an increase in demand for power, global use of coal and gas fell during the first half of 2025.
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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

New @eciu.net analysis has quantified the savings to electricity costs that wind power is delivering. Simon Cran-McGreehin, @eciu.net commented:

"Things could have been even worse during the peaks of the gas crisis, had it not been for renewables"
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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

Commenting on Conservative plans to scrap the carbon tax and renewables obligation subsidy, @jessralston.bsky.social, @eciu.net said:

"The public backs the ‘polluter pays’ principle whereby the companies creating the emissions pay for them"
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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

New @eciu.net analysis has quantified the savings to electricity costs that wind power is delivering. Simon Cran-McGreehin, @eciu.net commented:

"Things could have been even worse during the peaks of the gas crisis, had it not been for renewables"
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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

Landslides and floods kill 64 in Nepal, India

Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal and neighbouring India have killed more than 60 people, officials said Sunday, as rescue workers raced to reach cut-off communities in remote mountainous terrain.

Landslides and floods kill 64 in Nepal, India

Landslides and floods triggered by heavy downpours in Nepal and neighbouring India have killed more than 60 people, officials said Sunday, as rescue workers raced to reach cut-off communities in…

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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

Commenting on Conservative plans to scrap the carbon tax and renewables obligation subsidy, @jessralston.bsky.social, @eciu.net said:

"The public backs the ‘polluter pays’ principle whereby the companies creating the emissions pay for them"
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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

Trump officials cut nearly $8bn in clean energy projects in Democratic states

Democrats and environmental groups slam move as ‘sick political game’ and say it will drive up energy bills.

Trump officials cut nearly $8bn in clean energy projects in Democratic states

Democrats and environmental groups slam move as ‘sick political game’ and say it will drive up energy bills

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ECIU @eciu.net · 1d

25%

New analysis finds wind power reduced the wholesale price of electricity by up to a quarter (25%) in 2024, equivalent to around £25/MWh.
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Analysis: Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by…

Gas power now only setting the price of electricity around 85% of the time.

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