John Taylor
@CoppiceJT
Climate idleist. Community renewables advocate. Tweets my own.
Climate change is like a murmuration of starlings. Please read and share facebook.com/john.taylor.14…
Nothing is stopping the people building data centres from building them to be beautiful….
Quite. Low impact community energy, by the community, for the community.
There is another way of doing rural solar. Norfolk's landowners could work with their parish and market town councils so that every community that wants one gets an appropriately sized solar field. Instead of one village with 4000 acres, have 400 villages with 10 acres each.
There is another way of doing rural solar. Norfolk's landowners could work with their parish and market town councils so that every community that wants one gets an appropriately sized solar field. Instead of one village with 4000 acres, have 400 villages with 10 acres each.
German renewable company RWE plans to install the biggest solar farm in the UK across 4,000 acres of land (the size of 5,200 football pitches) in Norfolk. GB Energy = giving contracts to foreign corporations to destroy British prime farmland by plastering solar panels on it.
We have today published four reports for London providing: - An analysis on the potential for future community energy projects - Case studies of community energy action undertaken - Proposals to policy makers on how to boost growth in the deployment & scale of community energy.
- @hmtreasury has recently intervened to block the @educationgovuk from approving all Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) for solar installations in schools - update from Community Energy England communityenergyengland.org/news/treasury-… - Happening at crucial summer holiday installation window
I do own a wind farm actually. I have a small share of a turbine covering my personal energy use, along with a 1000 other households as part of an energy cooperative. Community ownership of renewables neutralises Matt's entire argument.
Warning! The @DailyMail is carrying an article by me that contains numerous errors, introduced by editors while I was without access to a phone signal or internet, hiking in the Rockies. Below is the correct text that I submitted to them: The climate boondoggle is one of the…
So many people quoting the AR7 ceiling as if it's the final price. It's not, it's the maximum, the auction hasn't even happened yet so we don't know what the final strike price will be yet. Likely lower than this, as with previous rounds. Esp. given how different this round is.
AR7 offer price for fixed offshore wind £117/MWh, floating offshore £280/MWh, both index-linked for 20 years. Today's electricity price set by gas and including carbon taxes, £73/MWh. If renewables were cheaper, they wouldn't need guaranteed, above market prices.
Rewarding people with cheap energy when there's abundant renewables. This is the future. Sun spills soaked up by millions of EV batteries, and wind blowouts making our homes toasty via heat pumps.
Control of your bills firmly in your hands - that's what our clean power mission does - creating thousands of jobs and energy security in the process. Read our plan to build the clean flexible electricity system of the future 👇
No matter how many more oil and gas fields we find, it still remains true that burning it will tip the planet's climate into chaotic territory. Solar and wind power is cheap enough now for us to harvest abundant real time energy flows of renewables.
But Ed Miliband claims the world is following Britain’s net zero lead. So surely Poland will leave it in the ground? 🤡
We’re pleased to welcome a report from Renaissance & Progressive Britain urging Govt support for local businesses including community energy co-ops. Co-authored by @HughGoulbourne & @joejervis89, it calls for a BIG Unit to unlock finance & empower SMEs. labour-renaissance.org.uk/levelling-the-…
One of the hottest days of the year so far in Texas: 53% of the power on peak is coming from solar & wind. Wholesale power is ~$20 per megawatt-hour or 2 cents per kilowatt-hour. No conservation calls, no energy emergencies. ~20 gigawatts of extra power just sitting around.
This deeply flawed amateur analysis of net zero subsidies has been viewed 100s of thousands of times—retweeted by high profile accounts including an MP and 3 lords. But it's full of errors & appears purposely misleading—you decide. A 🧵 [Google sheet at end]
This pattern is sadly repeated a lot in public procurement.
The loss of 400 jobs at Alexander Dennis isn’t just a casualty of market forces It’s a story of how public money has helped to erode Scotland’s industrial base and offshore jobs abroad Read our latest blog: futureeconomy.scot/posts/260-miss…
To wind and solar developers, regardless of what Reform do, I pledge to purchase your electricity. #CleanPowerPledge
We at Reform serve notice to wind and solar developers and investors Invest at your own political peril telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…
I see this as a call for better landlords over banning solar panels. There's no reason a solar install should deny a family their living, we have so much land and roofspace available. Engage communities in designing and siting renewables.
FARMERS - Tenant farmers are being evicted by landowners selling and renting their farm land to solar farm developers instead. The deals promise far greater and tax payer guaranteed returns. Who needs food security anyway? “Let them eat panels” the zealots cry 🤡
Tackling the climate and nature crisis is essential to protect the British way of life. We’re taking bold action on climate and nature to make the British people better off today, and protect future generations to come. theguardian.com/environment/20…
People talk about Norway's North Sea Oil Sovereign Wealth Fund. Well a large part of the UK's oil wealth ended up in our inflated land and property markets via low tax/high welfare budgets. A land value tax would be a way to recoup this siphoned away wealth to benefit everyone.
Time for a land value tax as the surest way to avert national decline and bankruptcy 👇 thetimes.com/article/9fafa6…
A problem with Thatcherism is that eventually you run out of water.
The Anti Net Zero crowd today. The inside of their heads are a mess of contradictions.
