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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action
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BFCCA is a local charity that helps our community address the climate and biodiversity crisis. Our Vision - Bracknell Forest will work together to live sustainably, making green choices, and we will achieve net zero as close to 2030 as possible.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 7d
Wind generated the last share of UK electricity over the last year, gas second, and zero coal for the first year ever since we have used electricity! via the ever informative grid.iamkate.com
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 3d
Cyclists outnumber drivers 2 to 1 in the City of London, the financial heart of the capital www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Twice as many bikes as cars in 'Square Mile' after 57% increase in City cyclists
Change part-fuelled by massive rise in use of Lime and Forest e-bikes
www.standard.co.uk
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 2h
Britain's first coal free year of electricity!
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 7d
Wind generated the last share of UK electricity over the last year, gas second, and zero coal for the first year ever since we have used electricity! via the ever informative grid.iamkate.com
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 7d
Wind generated the last share of UK electricity over the last year, gas second, and zero coal for the first year ever since we have used electricity! via the ever informative grid.iamkate.com
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 2h
How fast is EV charging growing? via www.rac.co.uk/drive/electr...
Growth of EV charging
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 1d
Interesting summary of projected UK electricity demand and supply to 2050 from Transition Chichester www.transitionchichester.org/wp-content/u...
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 1d
Interesting summary of projected UK electricity demand and supply to 2050 from Transition Chichester www.transitionchichester.org/wp-content/u...
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 9d
'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-...
Bunhill combined heating system
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 3d
Cyclists outnumber drivers 2 to 1 in the City of London, the financial heart of the capital www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Twice as many bikes as cars in 'Square Mile' after 57% increase in City cyclists
Change part-fuelled by massive rise in use of Lime and Forest e-bikes
www.standard.co.uk
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Climate Change Committee @thecccuk.bsky.social · 6d
We're thrilled to share two new appointments to the Adaptation Committee announced today by Defra and the Devolved Governments.

Dr Michael Keil and Ian Dickie will join the Adaptation Committee from January, with specialisms in water and biodiversity finance.

www.theccc.org.uk/2025/10/09/n...
New appointments to the Adaptation Committee - Climate Change Committee
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Devolved Governments have appointed Dr Michael Keil and Mr Ian Dickie to the Adaptation Committee.
www.theccc.org.uk
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 5d
China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 4d
Brown-banded carder bee buzzes into Southhill solar farm sustainablecharlbury.org/news-and-vie...
Unusual bee seen at Southill Solar – Sustainable Charlbury
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 4d
Brown-banded carder bee buzzes into Southhill solar farm sustainablecharlbury.org/news-and-vie...
Unusual bee seen at Southill Solar – Sustainable Charlbury
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Land Use for Net Zero (LUNZ) Hub @lunz-hub.bsky.social · Mar 18
The recording of the Farm planning horizons and the transition to net zero webinar is now available on the LUNZ Hub Website.

Click here to access the webinar recording and read the key takeaways: bit.ly/3XZSQj0
Farm planning horizons and the transition to net zero webinar - LUNZ Hub
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 4d
How do heat pumps work? www.theheatpumpwarehouse.co.uk/how-heat-pum...
A house and a compressor showing how heat pumps work.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 4d
How do heat pumps work? www.theheatpumpwarehouse.co.uk/how-heat-pum...
A house and a compressor showing how heat pumps work.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 14d
Coming soon from Bracknell Library.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 18d
'Electric vehicle fleet saving Wiltshire Council more than £54,000 this year' www.wiltshire.gov.uk/news/electri... #EVs #ElectroState #NetZero #LoveNetZero
A car charging in Wiltshire
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 7d
Wind generated the last share of UK electricity over the last year, gas second, and zero coal for the first year ever since we have used electricity! via the ever informative grid.iamkate.com
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 9d
'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-...
Bunhill combined heating system
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Reader David Toke @davidtoke.bsky.social · 12d
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 · 11d
'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...
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 11d
66% of electricity is from wind this evening. Nice!
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Andy Finney @delverie.bsky.social · 13d
@tomhayesmp.bsky.social … this is a promising idea and worth doing elsewhere, I suggest.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 14d
Coming soon from Bracknell Library.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social · 11d
Windy out there? Nearly 73% of our electricity late on Friday night is renewable. grid.iamkate.com #NetZero #LoveNetZero
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