Sam Maclaine
@sammaclaine.bsky.social
I post Pro the environment and Renewable energy.
I comment on whatever I like, hopefully being polite and occasionally amusing.
I block anyone who doesn't allow responses 🙂
I comment on whatever I like, hopefully being polite and occasionally amusing.
I block anyone who doesn't allow responses 🙂
Phase A - already generating as we speak 🤔
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World's largest offshore windfarm off Yorkshire coast to boost economy by £6.1bn
The Dogger Bank Wind Farm will boost the UK economy by £6.1 billion during its lifetime and support thousands of British jobs over the next three decades, an independent report has found.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Phase A - already generating as we speak 🤔
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/dog...
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Just look at the size of this thing. 🙂
Second Hornsea 3 Substation Topside En Route to Europe | Offshore Wind share.google/JDxtNgoft0Xj...
Second Hornsea 3 Substation Topside En Route to Europe | Offshore Wind share.google/JDxtNgoft0Xj...
Second Hornsea 3 Substation Topside En Route to Europe
Aibel has completed the second offshore converter station topside for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind project at its yard in Thailand. The substation, Hornsea 3 Link 2, has started its journey to Europe, ...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Just look at the size of this thing. 🙂
Second Hornsea 3 Substation Topside En Route to Europe | Offshore Wind share.google/JDxtNgoft0Xj...
Second Hornsea 3 Substation Topside En Route to Europe | Offshore Wind share.google/JDxtNgoft0Xj...
Nice to see the UK up with other World leaders in the deployment of Battery storage working with Renewables 🙂
October 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Nice to see the UK up with other World leaders in the deployment of Battery storage working with Renewables 🙂
How we would have had much higher electricity prices in 2024 without the increase in UK wind generation 🙂
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Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…
Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.
eciu.net
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
How we would have had much higher electricity prices in 2024 without the increase in UK wind generation 🙂
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In 2021, clean power covered Britain’s electricity demand for just 2.5 hours.
In 2025, it’s already 87 hours.
Still only 1.3% of the year – but the direction of travel is clear.
Dr Simon Evans reports
In 2025, it’s already 87 hours.
Still only 1.3% of the year – but the direction of travel is clear.
Dr Simon Evans reports
Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
In 2021, clean power covered Britain’s electricity demand for just 2.5 hours.
In 2025, it’s already 87 hours.
Still only 1.3% of the year – but the direction of travel is clear.
Dr Simon Evans reports
In 2025, it’s already 87 hours.
Still only 1.3% of the year – but the direction of travel is clear.
Dr Simon Evans reports
'Super batteries': Ofgem advances plans for new wave of Long Duration Energy Storage projects | BusinessGreen News share.google/uSksASt4Xlga...
'Super batteries': Ofgem advances plans for new wave of Long Duration Energy Storage projects
Regulator confirms selection of over 75 projects for new 'cap and floor' energy storage support scheme
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September 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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The word in energy circles is that the UK passed a significant milestone yesterday: for one hour, Britain's entire domestic electricity demand was met entirely by clean sources.
September 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Interesting how low Electricity Demand per capita is in the UK. Guess that is related to us using gas for heating ? 🤔
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Interesting how low Electricity Demand per capita is in the UK. Guess that is related to us using gas for heating ? 🤔
Global investment in electricity generation from wind almost doubles in 10 years. And Solar - Wow 🤔
September 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Global investment in electricity generation from wind almost doubles in 10 years. And Solar - Wow 🤔
Some interesting details in the UK massive Dogger Bank wind farm 🤔
www.ecoticias.com/en/3-6-gw-cl...
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3.6 GW climbs out of the sea — The offshore colossus adding turbines by the week
3,6 GW to climb out of the sea as per the first three stages of the Dogger Bank project that considers offshore power generation throughout the U.K.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Some interesting details in the UK massive Dogger Bank wind farm 🤔
www.ecoticias.com/en/3-6-gw-cl...
www.ecoticias.com/en/3-6-gw-cl...
Now we just need the whizzy bits 😂
September 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Now we just need the whizzy bits 😂
'We are going to need a bigger boat (battery)' 🙂
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The $1bn battery: record-sized plant will store North Sea wind power
Project will site huge BESS deployment inland from North Sea coast as key plank of UK green power plans
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September 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
'We are going to need a bigger boat (battery)' 🙂
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Don't often post about Nuclear but just to remember how lots of new Renewables by 2030 are needed just to replace the UK's incredibly creaky old Nuclear Power stations 🤔
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EDF’s Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear plants to operate for further 12 months | New Civil Engineer
The power plants are both advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs), and EDF says its ambition is “to continue making zero-carbon electricity at its four
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September 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Don't often post about Nuclear but just to remember how lots of new Renewables by 2030 are needed just to replace the UK's incredibly creaky old Nuclear Power stations 🤔
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/edfs-...
www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/edfs-...
Bit over the top to say the UK is relying on flywheels 🙂 but they are part of the solution in a fossil free grid 🤔
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Britain's energy grid bets on flywheels to keep the lights on
Britain's energy operator is betting on an age-old technology to future-proof its grid, as the power plants that traditionally helped stabilise it are closed and replaced by renewable energy systems.
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September 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Bit over the top to say the UK is relying on flywheels 🙂 but they are part of the solution in a fossil free grid 🤔
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The controversial new Electricity Pylon link between new wind farms off the UK coast and East Anglia/London now has it's final route decided 🤔
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National Grid submits its Norfolk to Essex pylon grid application
It includes 114 miles (183 km) of pylons carrying "home-grown energy" between Norwich and Tilbury.
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August 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The controversial new Electricity Pylon link between new wind farms off the UK coast and East Anglia/London now has it's final route decided 🤔
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There is a lot of talk about getting power from northern Scottish wind farms to England.
But also southern Scotland will benefit enormously from having access 🤔
Scottish Power awards £5.4bn in transmission and substation works across two frameworks | Construction News share.google/1BYPjpMmLVVx...
But also southern Scotland will benefit enormously from having access 🤔
Scottish Power awards £5.4bn in transmission and substation works across two frameworks | Construction News share.google/1BYPjpMmLVVx...
Scottish Power awards £5.4bn in transmission and substation works across two frameworks
Scottish Power Transmission has awarded two strategic frameworks worth a combined £5.4bn for works to expand its onshore electricity infrastructure across
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August 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
There is a lot of talk about getting power from northern Scottish wind farms to England.
But also southern Scotland will benefit enormously from having access 🤔
Scottish Power awards £5.4bn in transmission and substation works across two frameworks | Construction News share.google/1BYPjpMmLVVx...
But also southern Scotland will benefit enormously from having access 🤔
Scottish Power awards £5.4bn in transmission and substation works across two frameworks | Construction News share.google/1BYPjpMmLVVx...
UK's 'Hornsea 3' 2.9GW Offshore Wind Farm from Ofsted - construction underway 🙂
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Haizea Rolls Out First Monopile for Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm
Spain's Haizea Wind Group has rolled out the first monopile for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK.
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August 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
UK's 'Hornsea 3' 2.9GW Offshore Wind Farm from Ofsted - construction underway 🙂
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