Today is the launch of #NESO (#carbonfree #UKGrid). The key elements of its #strategy must be; 1/ #Decarbonization of all #Generating sources.
2/ #Electrification of Everything in our lives.
3/ Fostering #BehavioralChange in respect to Consumption, Efficiency & Sustainability.
Will they succeed with so many #grifters still in the picture?
#CarbonGrifters #NuclearGrifters #BioMassGrifters #HydroPowerGrifters ...
#GriftersGonnaGrift in #UKEnergy.

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The man in charge of Labour’s green energy dream: ‘It’s at the limit of what’s achievable’

Fintan Slye, head of the new grid operator Neso, is aware that critics are sceptical about achieving ‘clean power by 2030’. But with tough decisions, he says, it can be done

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Boiling Point: Are dams good or bad?

A Walt Disney World film offers some interesting perspective.

Los Angeles Times
‘He had a machete in his cheek’: how Guatemala’s hydropower dream turned deadly

Sebastián Alonzo is one of 1,335 land defenders killed in Latin America, since 2012. His community in Guatemala continues to fight water expropriation

The Guardian
‘A scam all around’: Navajo Nation groups oppose hydropower projects

One such project in Black Mesa, Arizona, is awaiting initial permits and has sparked fears over water use in an area already grappling with accessibility to it

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Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure

The long read: Utilitarian as they may be, some civic projects are so monumental they approach the sublime. And one of the most elegant is hidden inside a mountain in Wales

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