@regendans both are true. Wind (and solar) are making massive strides to make our electricity more green and there will be no going back to fossil fuel electricity - green is cheaper now.
However most of our heating is gas. There is a lot of work/legislation going on now to get more heat pumps and better insulation installed, but it's still going to take years. In the meantime, gas will still be required, better to get some here than import it from unreliable or unsavoury partners.
Those seeking to push the green transition, might thank the Tangerine Tyrant & his attack (with Israel) on Iran;
price signals are a powerful economic force & so a rise in energy prices should encourage further efficiencies (reductions in energy use) & also aid the (continued) expansion of the use of alternate energy sources.
The Govt. still needs to help with 'transition costs' but price rises help the transition to renewable energy!
But at an *awful* cost to Iranians!
The EU's #CBAM came into force in January, with the intent of reducing #CarbonLeakage.....Good timing!
But, considering that fuel costs are now globally higher (I.e. not just in traditionally carbon intensive regions), CBAM could be seen simply as a revenue-generating tool for renewables. Is there any indication that it could develop in this way?
I must say that I'm completely satisfied with how the climate denialists are crying and wailing right now.
In the future, I'll be calling this time peroid the Squeeze of Hormuz and the sounds the oilheads produced in response the Squeal of Hormuz.
I just got my feed in tariff payment for the winter (mid august to mid march)
It covers my total power bill for the same period
Summer is going to be even better
At every step on our low-carbon journey there have been lots of people saying it won't work.
This tech is so good that the subsidies keep getting reduced - which is fine - the tech keeps getting cheaper and better.
Given the continued discussion of the problem of growth for climate change, the ability to manage some level of economic growth while still attaining Net Zero looks like the holy grail for Liberal greens (those who see a de-growth strategy as too politically dangerous).
While we are already seeing relative de-coupling, to achieve net zero Farooq Sher (NTU) argues an absolute decoupling must be achieved!
But, this doesn't look easy!
#NetZero #GreenTransition #politics
https://theconversation.com/why-decoupling-energy-emissions-from-economic-growth-underpins-the-green-transition-278568
Ugh, not this thing again...
Look, there will always be people who believe that 2+2=5. There will always be "groups" that are impossible to "reach" because they never want to hear the truth.
Instead of wasting our time and resources on trying to speak with those who actively insulate their false convictions from the reality, how about we focus on building our movement, strengthening our momentum and helping our activists?
https://mstdn.social/@primonatura/116273423746923382
In the next week or so, shipments of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) will reach their destinations marking the end of supplies from the Middle East now halted by the US/Israeli attack(s) on Iran & the Iranian response.
After that (given the damage to LNG facilities in the region of the war), there will be between three to five years of constrained supply & higher prices.
Essentially exactly what's needed to drive an accelerated green transition (ironic, huh?)
#Iran #LNG #GreenTransition
h/t FT
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