Dan Etchells

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Retired civil servant - UK.

Will look to use Mastodon here to learn about and discuss environmental matters, primarily.

Married. 2 kids. Like Greek / Italian food & Argentinian Malbec. Follow Gloucester Rugby.

Keen on cycling / walking.

Ensuring Type 2 Diabetes remains in remission.

CountryUK
PronounsHe / Him
PoliticsSocialist
CityGloucester
But difficult decisions cannot be ducked, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) added in its annual progress report to parliament – including a pressing need to overhaul the way energy is taxed in order to make electricity much cheaper than gas.

Includes the jaw dropper -

"The findings were published days after it was revealed that the UK had spent about £1bn so far this year paying for wind turbines to be turned off during windy weather, in part because there is not enough grid infrastructure to carry electricity from where it is generated to areas of high power demand."