Our first ask is a target: 🎯 1GW of community-owned energy by 2030. That's 10x higher than now. Ambitious? Yes, but achievable. @rescoop.eu say "In EU countries with such goals in place, clear policy signals and investor confidence has led to significant growth of the community energy movement.”

Community Energy Scotland@cescotland.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📣We’ve published our manifesto recommendations for the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections! It’s clear that our energy system isn’t working for ordinary people. Communities must have more influence, ownership and feel more benefit from our energy system. 👀👉 communityenergy.scot/manifesto-fo...

⚖️🔋 What does a just transition mean for #CommunityEnergy in the UK? Join our live Q&A with @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social on how community energy can drive a fairer #NetZero, and why justice must be at the heart of the UK’s energy future. 👉 Find out more: buff.ly/5gXjykO

The world isn't silent on Gaza - this is by far the most vocal I have seen the general public on a political issue in my lifetime. I have also never seen a bigger difference between the anger of the public and the inaction of specific institutions and governments. That's the crucial disconnect.

We’ve known community energy punches well above its weight for some time. It’s not just about energy - it’s about wealth, resilience, engagement, power and prosperity. It’s also really popular. It won’t do ‘net zero’ alone, but it has to be a core pillar of any successful, just transition.

Platform @platform1983.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms. But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

Fact check: it's natural gas, not renewables, keeping electricity prices high in the UK. www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

Factcheck: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high - Carbon Brief

The UK’s high electricity prices have become intensely political, with competing claims over the cause of rocketing bills and how best to get them down.

carbonbrief.org

Proud to have put my name, with so many colleagues, to this brilliantly drafted letter

Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war

Their letter warns of genocide in Gaza, and calls on the UK to take concrete actions to meet its international legal obligations.

bbc.co.uk

Permits, we don't need no stinking permits. In a textbook case of environmental injustice, Elon Musk is poisoning the air in a poor, predominantly black neighborhood in Memphis with unpermitted gas turbines to power his "Grok" AI facility 1/. @politico.com

Unforgivable

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Food security experts warn Gaza at ‘critical risk of famine’ amid Israeli blockade

So if a Global North govt chases the wish of retreating from the world, this is because they are deeply cynical, gravely misguided, or desperately afraid. It may work for an election, it may work for one short period of time, but global crises will eventually find you and the looks won’t be pretty.

The biggest threat to ‘net zero’ in the UK isn’t the far right: it’s Labour aping their talking points and failing to tackle the austerity and inequality that drives their support. We have to marry these together. Some thoughts from me fraserjfstewart-17.medium.com/picking-up-b...

Normalise telling people their 'concerns' are not, in fact, 'legitimate'.

Reform UK's attempted assault on clean energy infrastructure will have costs for Lincolnshire = not a rich county Too often accusation is all about net-zero zealotry being expensive. Capital investment for sure. But anti-net-zero zealotry definitely has costs www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform’s green energy assault in Lincolnshire ‘puts 12,200 jobs at risk’

Party intends to block projects despite net zero industries contributing nearly £1bn to local economy, analysis shows

theguardian.com

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

time.com

I was on Reporting Scotland last night discussing what the closure of Grangemouth oil refinery, large local job losses and threats to our energy security. This unjust transition could have been avoided if governments had acted. Workers advocated viable greener alternatives. First report ⬇️

Reporting Scotland - News at Seven: 30/04/2025

More from the day’s top stories and communities across Scotland.

bbc.co.uk

Was asked whether the public have lost faith in net zero for radio this morning. I think it's the wrong question. The public still overwhelmingly support climate action. The question is do they trust government to deliver and make good on promises of fairness and prosperity.

Why does Nigel Farage want me to lose my job?

“Net zero is doomed to fail!!!!” I cackle from my infinity pool of oil and gas money

Gill Tavner@gilltav.bsky.social · last yr.

Anyone wondering why arch neoliberal Blair is speaking against the scientific imperative to stop burning fossil fuels this decade? euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...

Bath & West Community Energy (a financially sustainable community enterprise operating on the basis of a not-for-profit community energy model, and aiming to reduce carbon emissions) leaves X (2.831 followers). BlueSky: @bwce.bsky.social #BlueSkyWins

1/12 Tony Blair Institute have released a report which is getting a lot of coverage in UK today It says the drive for net zero emissions is flawed and some media outlets have gone to town However it’s a bit odd By odd, I mean there’s a lot of bollocks in it and shouldn't be taken seriously 🧵🧵

Add gas networks to this list in anticipation of winding it down while we're at it, tbh

Common Wealth@cmmonwealth.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 NEW: The gas sector is holding the country to ransom during peak demand. Here’s why taking the sector into public ownership can put a stop to sky high bills. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

British Steel is the latest in a growing line of examples of our failure to plan for a just transition for workers and communities. How many more do we need before we accept that current bosses of high-polluting industries will not deliver this of their own accord?

The only logical answer to all of this is to build solar on golf courses and turn club houses into community energy hubs. A just transition in action

Doug Parr@dougparr.bsky.social · last yr.

There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5% www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

3) "What you call green energy [is] driving those prices up, and making it unsustainable to produce steel" This is a statement from Nick, and it is wrong. UK Steel: "The main driver of the price disparity is...driven by the UK’s reliance on natural gas power" www.uksteel.org/electricity-...

Industrial Electricity Prices – Barrier to growth and competitiveness

New UK Steel report on industrial electricity prices demonstrates that a sizable gap remains between what UK steelmakers and their European competitors pay. The report sets out three recommendations t...

uksteel.org

Kemi Badenoch ditched the Tories’ commitment to reaching Net Zero by 2050 after accepting donations from funders of the Global Warming Policy Foundation and Net Zero Watch, both of which have campaigned for the target to be scrapped. @adambienkov.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group

The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change

bylinetimes.com

The biggest financial risk of “net zero” is doing nothing about it and feigning shock as fossil fuel prices soar again, bills fluctuate uncontrollably, fuel poverty deepens and floods/fires/extreme weather cause damage that we can’t afford to fix or protect people from

They’re bombing Gaza again. Horrors upon horror www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

At least 30 killed as Israel launches wave of air strikes across Gaza Strip

Israel says it has conducted extensive air attacks on Hamas targets in Gaza, the largest since the ceasefire began.

aljazeera.com

Some incisive quotes from our main man @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social about how Labour must embrace community ownership to achieve net zero. theecologist.org/2025/feb/13/...

Power lines

Labour must embrace community ownership to achieve net zero.

theecologist.org

“Climate action can become popular when people understand its benefits [to] their own communities and… lives” How to talk about climate change beyond the climate bubble - a brilliant article by Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read

It’s time for climate populism

As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.

newstatesman.com