100% agree with you on this. Nothing winds me up more than people like Musk and Thiel contorting LOTR for their own attempts to dominate others. Thank you for writing it.

Their strategy hasn't been great politically. Focus has been on 'big stuff' offshore wind, CCUS, SMRs, pylons, NSIP solar, but 12 months have been wasted with no movement on the Local Power Plan. Thousands of communities could be progressing onshore wind, solar and smart supply with right support.

I just want them to announce the Local Power Plan details. There are thousands of communities wanting to be part of the solution being left on the sidelines. If there's bottlenecks with grid transmission and offshore wind, trust people and give them the resources to do community wind and solar.

It needs to be both at the same time of course, but people won't electrify if electricity is expensive.

I'm not so fussed. The fastest way to bring overall household bills down, and to save CO2, is for people and businesses to adopt EVs and heat pumps, rather than squeezing a few more % off grid carbon intensity. Grid is already clean enough for big savings if we ramp up demand side electrification.

How much of the food and eating out increase is secondary energy inflation? Energy input component of diesel and fertilisers, tractors, delivery vans, gas hobs, heating venues, electricity?

A lot of the light industrial manufacturing I've seen closed recently often haven't had any onsite solar or wind power. I wonder how much this would have made a difference to their viability?

Very timely, thanks.

Cepro and SNRG seem to be doing interesting things in this space. And Energy Local.

Already had solar farms in The Detectorists. Community Energy has better anecdotes. Better story is nimbys Vs NSIP solar farm developer for the jeopardy resolving in a shared ownership arrangement with nice BNG uplift.

Bit of a different response to this thread on here Vs the other place 🤣