Interesting links, articles, news and blog posts sent out to members on 17/10/24.
Article: Flies, rats and offers of hush money – the price of living next to a ‘monster’ incinerator – BBC News Online
16 October 2024, Esme Stallard, Matt McGrath, Patrick Clahane & Paul Lynch. “We have been inundated with flies, rats, smell, noise. It’s just been horrendous,” says Mandy Royle, who lives in the closest home to the UK’s biggest waste incinerator at Runcorn in Cheshire:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwylepd79d5o
Open consultation: Capacity Market: proposals to maintain security of supply and enable flexible capacity to decarbonise – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
15 October 2024. Views on proposed changes to the Capacity Market (CM) to maintain the security of our electricity supply and to enable unabated gas plants to decarbonise. This consultation closes at
11:59pm on 10 December 2024:
Article: Burning rubbish now UK’s dirtiest form of power – BBC News Online
15 October 2024, Esme Stallard, Matt McGrath, Patrick Clahane & Paul Lynch. Burning household rubbish in giant incinerators to make electricity is now the dirtiest way the UK generates power, BBC analysis has found:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wxgje5pwo
Article: Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? – Guardian Online
14 October 2024, Patrick Greenfield. The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating:
News: ‘Very concerning’: BP dilutes net zero targets as global retreat from green standards gathers pace – The Observer in the Guardian Online
13 October 2024, Jillian Ambrose, Julia Kollewe and Kalyeena Makortoff. The oil giant’s new focus on fossil fuels signals another defeat for environmental, social and governance aims and has angered campaigners:
Article: Stop pushing heat pumps or face major backlash, green energy magnate tells Labour – The Observer in the Guardian Online
12 October 2024, Michael Savage. Party donor Dale Vince warns that urging homeowners to switch to clean-power technology risks political storm bigger than Ulez:
Press release: Tidalwave of clean energy investment worth billions unlocked ahead of Investment Summit – Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP
10 October 2024. Thousands of jobs in green industries announced as the UK Government welcomes more than £24 billion of private investment for pioneering energy projects ahead of the International Investment Summit on 14th October:
Press release: Energy experts appointed to deliver clean power 2030 mission – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
10 October 2024. Government appoints leading industry and academic experts to the Clean Power 2030 Advisory Commission to help accelerate UK’s mission to decarbonise the electricity grid:
Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/energy-experts-appointed-to-deliver-clean-power-2030-mission
Press release: New scheme to attract investment in renewable energy storage – Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ofgem and Michael Shanks MP
10 October 2024. Long Duration Electricity Storage investment support scheme will boost investor confidence and unlock billions in funding for vital projects:
Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-scheme-to-attract-investment-in-renewable-energy-storage
News: Report shows floating wind could be the UK’s industrial opportunity of the century – The Energyst
9 October 2024, Tim McManan-Smith. A new report by the joint Government-industry Floating Offshore Wind Taskforce shows that floating wind could be this century’s biggest British industrial success story – if the right measures are put in place to enable more projects to go ahead faster:
Article: Energy industry trade body chief to head UK’s climate watchdog – Guardian Online
9 October 2024, Jilliam Ambrose. Emma Pinchbeck will take over as chief executive of Climate Change Committee next month: