Post #1156838

2026-04-15 06:20 UTC

The first half of April has been a pretty good one for renewable and low carbon energy on the UK mainland’s power grid. April’s national energy consumption to date is about 10 TWh (pretty well half of what’s expected for the full month) but it’s the breakdown that warms the heart: Wind: 3.2TWh Solar: 1.0 TWh Nuclear: 1.7 TWh Imports: 1.0 TWh And then: Gas: 2.0 TWh Greenwashed wood pellet burning: 0.9 TWh

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@roastinghouse@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-15 07:17

@christineburns@mastodon.green Good news. I was reading about the idea of when there's a glut of energy from renewables, encouraging people & businesses to use it Very onboard with this idea even if means roasting at odd times of the day (usually morning but I imagine mid-afternoon after hours of sun will be the key times). I already use the Octopus low-carbon forecaster which is usually after 11am and before 3pm. But a network of businesses who promise to help the grid and do their intensive energy tasks at low carbon thinners would probably be good for indie small business.

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@markhburton@mstdn.social 2026-04-15 08:01

@christineburns So 4.2 out of 9.8 for renewable energy capture systems. That's just electricity of course. A very long way to go, especially given the likely increases in demand from the data centre boom.

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@denny@boing.world 2026-04-15 08:10

@christineburns And the imports are mostly from France, which is mostly nuclear.

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@khleedril@cyberplace.social 2026-04-15 08:20

@christineburns ... and yet we pay like it is 100% gas. :(

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