Sarah Oppenheimer
@saropp.bsky.social
Strategic comms to speed up the energy transition, now as Communication and Policy Director at RAP. Interested in the details and overcoming the blockages. Also mum of 3 endlessly growing boys.
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The future energy bill is an electricity bill.
This is why we must 'Make Electricity Cheaper' for households, businesses and industry.
In our 3rd paper at RAP on this topic, Tom Butler & I look at reducing tax & levies added to electricity prices for industry.
tinyurl.com/4z4v5ssd
This is why we must 'Make Electricity Cheaper' for households, businesses and industry.
In our 3rd paper at RAP on this topic, Tom Butler & I look at reducing tax & levies added to electricity prices for industry.
tinyurl.com/4z4v5ssd
Making electricity cheaper: Modernising taxes and levies to incentivise electrification of industrial heat
RAP experts Sem Oxenaar and Tom Butler look at the state of electricity and gas prices for industry and the impact of reducing taxes and levies.
www.raponline.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The future energy bill is an electricity bill.
This is why we must 'Make Electricity Cheaper' for households, businesses and industry.
In our 3rd paper at RAP on this topic, Tom Butler & I look at reducing tax & levies added to electricity prices for industry.
tinyurl.com/4z4v5ssd
This is why we must 'Make Electricity Cheaper' for households, businesses and industry.
In our 3rd paper at RAP on this topic, Tom Butler & I look at reducing tax & levies added to electricity prices for industry.
tinyurl.com/4z4v5ssd
Be careful what you wish for. “China got to where it is today by setting a long-term strategy and sticking to it. There’s a lesson there for Europe’s policymakers and auto industry”. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Carmakers Ought to Be Careful What They Wish for on EU Emissions
Thanks for reading Hyperdrive, Bloomberg’s newsletter on the future of the auto world.
www.bloomberg.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Be careful what you wish for. “China got to where it is today by setting a long-term strategy and sticking to it. There’s a lesson there for Europe’s policymakers and auto industry”. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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🎧 RAP’s @louisesunderland.bsky.social joins journalist @kirataylor.bsky.social to talk about making electricity cheaper and fairer.
Smart policies can cut bills and speed up the energy transition.
Listen here 👉 foresightmedia.com/story/sizlfj...
#Energy #Policy #Podcast
Smart policies can cut bills and speed up the energy transition.
Listen here 👉 foresightmedia.com/story/sizlfj...
#Energy #Policy #Podcast
Steps to slash power prices
In today’s episode of The Jolt, Kira looks into how Europe could cut its electricity bills, plus pushback on sustainability reporting as the United Nations calls for stronger ESG in mining
foresightmedia.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🎧 RAP’s @louisesunderland.bsky.social joins journalist @kirataylor.bsky.social to talk about making electricity cheaper and fairer.
Smart policies can cut bills and speed up the energy transition.
Listen here 👉 foresightmedia.com/story/sizlfj...
#Energy #Policy #Podcast
Smart policies can cut bills and speed up the energy transition.
Listen here 👉 foresightmedia.com/story/sizlfj...
#Energy #Policy #Podcast
❤️❤️ not many of us are as great as this, what an inspiration. Big loss. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
❤️❤️ not many of us are as great as this, what an inspiration. Big loss. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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It's going to be a lot easier to decarbonize heating if we bring down electricity prices.
That's the focus of Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)'s two papers out today: how to make electricity cheaper, especially for households.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
That's the focus of Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)'s two papers out today: how to make electricity cheaper, especially for households.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
Making electricity cheaper: Redistributing policy costs for affordable household heat electrification
Affordable electrification relies on affordable electricity. Nuanced price reform will best equip decision-makers for success.
www.raponline.org
September 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It's going to be a lot easier to decarbonize heating if we bring down electricity prices.
That's the focus of Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)'s two papers out today: how to make electricity cheaper, especially for households.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
That's the focus of Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)'s two papers out today: how to make electricity cheaper, especially for households.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
Proud to work with people who bring serious & practical suggestions to the challenge of making electricity cheaper, and accelerating the energy transition. 🙌💪
NEW RESEARCH: The future energy bill is an electricity bill.
We must Make Electricity Cheaper for households, businesses and industry.
How? …This feels like the defining question of the moment.
I’m happy to share @regassistproj.bsky.social 8 priority actions.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
We must Make Electricity Cheaper for households, businesses and industry.
How? …This feels like the defining question of the moment.
I’m happy to share @regassistproj.bsky.social 8 priority actions.
www.raponline.org/knowledge-ce...
Making electricity cheaper: RAP's eight priority actions
RAP identifies 8 priority actions to make electricity cheaper for European industry, businesses & households in the short, medium & long-term.
www.raponline.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Proud to work with people who bring serious & practical suggestions to the challenge of making electricity cheaper, and accelerating the energy transition. 🙌💪
Important article which makes the obvious point that climate change is happening, the 'underlying foundational tailwinds have not changed' and 'there is a tremendous demand for energy'. All meaning there is money to be made shifting to safer, healthier and more efficient systems. on.ft.com/4nwFfdi
Galvanize fund run by top Democrats to capitalise on Trump green cuts
New credit strategy to target viable companies and projects left in the cold by US policy shift
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September 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Important article which makes the obvious point that climate change is happening, the 'underlying foundational tailwinds have not changed' and 'there is a tremendous demand for energy'. All meaning there is money to be made shifting to safer, healthier and more efficient systems. on.ft.com/4nwFfdi
Hugely important and worrying news: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Opinion | The Most Environmentally Imaginative Country on Earth Is Under Assault
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Hugely important and worrying news: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
“the formerly Instagram-friendly views now seem apocalyptic” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Southern Europe bakes and burns, turning holiday hotspots into infernos
Black smoke is darkening blood-red skies across the continent – devastating residents and forcing travellers to start searching for ‘coolcations’ further north. Plus, the latest on Ukraine
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“the formerly Instagram-friendly views now seem apocalyptic” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Big fan of Sara Aagesen www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Spain wildfires are ‘clear warning’ of climate emergency, minister says
Environment minister says blazes are proof of country’s vulnerability to global heating as fires burn across Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Big fan of Sara Aagesen www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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⚡️EU power is becoming less and less reliant on fossil fuels
EU countries with the largest fall in fossil share (2004 vs. 2024):
🇩🇰Denmark: 76% → 12% 🏆
🇵🇹Portugal: 73% → 15%
🇳🇱The Netherlands: 91% → 46%
🇮🇪Ireland: 95% → 55%
🇬🇷Greece: 90% → 50%
🇫🇮Finland: 44% → 5%
EU countries with the largest fall in fossil share (2004 vs. 2024):
🇩🇰Denmark: 76% → 12% 🏆
🇵🇹Portugal: 73% → 15%
🇳🇱The Netherlands: 91% → 46%
🇮🇪Ireland: 95% → 55%
🇬🇷Greece: 90% → 50%
🇫🇮Finland: 44% → 5%
July 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
⚡️EU power is becoming less and less reliant on fossil fuels
EU countries with the largest fall in fossil share (2004 vs. 2024):
🇩🇰Denmark: 76% → 12% 🏆
🇵🇹Portugal: 73% → 15%
🇳🇱The Netherlands: 91% → 46%
🇮🇪Ireland: 95% → 55%
🇬🇷Greece: 90% → 50%
🇫🇮Finland: 44% → 5%
EU countries with the largest fall in fossil share (2004 vs. 2024):
🇩🇰Denmark: 76% → 12% 🏆
🇵🇹Portugal: 73% → 15%
🇳🇱The Netherlands: 91% → 46%
🇮🇪Ireland: 95% → 55%
🇬🇷Greece: 90% → 50%
🇫🇮Finland: 44% → 5%
Guterres really does have a great speechwriter, so many good lines here. And good change of tone. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World on brink of climate breakthrough as fossil fuels ‘run out of road’, UN chief says
António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Guterres really does have a great speechwriter, so many good lines here. And good change of tone. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's a sad reflection on the state of things when telling the truth is called 'radical' but good Ed Miliband has the energy and determination to call out the bullsh**t: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ed Miliband to tell MPs who reject net zero policies they are betraying future generations
Exclusive: Energy secretary’s ‘radical truth-telling’ comes as Reform plans net zero bonfire and Tories also ditch targets
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It's a sad reflection on the state of things when telling the truth is called 'radical' but good Ed Miliband has the energy and determination to call out the bullsh**t: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
Thank you @ericholthaus.com I have been waiting for this analysis of the role of climate change, and recognition of the “trend towards increasing atmospheric moisture content globally as the world warms and the air can hold more water vapor”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Texas floods reveal limitations of disaster forecasting under climate crisis
Texas’s ‘flash flood alley’ could bring even more floods in near future as Trump cuts compound with warming climate
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Thank you @ericholthaus.com I have been waiting for this analysis of the role of climate change, and recognition of the “trend towards increasing atmospheric moisture content globally as the world warms and the air can hold more water vapor”. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Barbara Kingsolver is so inspiring. I couldn’t love this woman and her writing and her actions more: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel
Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Barbara Kingsolver is so inspiring. I couldn’t love this woman and her writing and her actions more: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars.
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars.
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social
On why US renewables are still a good investment: "this administration is just a blip on a 30-year megatrend"
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Why investors remain bullish on US renewables
Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ could slash clean energy tax credits but long-term backers in the sector are not spooked
on.ft.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
On why US renewables are still a good investment: "this administration is just a blip on a 30-year megatrend"
on.ft.com/3HwWk7x
on.ft.com/3HwWk7x
Thanks, Håkan Samuelsson, for choosing to invest in the future: on.ft.com/4k9mhZc
European carmakers’ challenge is to ‘stay on course’ with EVs
Sales in Europe are up, but groups face shifting regulations, tariff uncertainty and competition from China
on.ft.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thanks, Håkan Samuelsson, for choosing to invest in the future: on.ft.com/4k9mhZc
So low of Wael Sawan to say we need more gas to avoid power cuts like the one in Spain when the analysis of what went wrong isn’t out yet and he knows that - pure scaremongering on.ft.com/4jcPq48 Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy
Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy
Special resolution calling for more detail on LNG business wins 20% backing
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May 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So low of Wael Sawan to say we need more gas to avoid power cuts like the one in Spain when the analysis of what went wrong isn’t out yet and he knows that - pure scaremongering on.ft.com/4jcPq48 Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy
Hard agree with this: on.ft.com/4mgkSBo
Vladimir Putin’s manipulation of Donald Trump
If the US president is walking away from Ukraine, other allies must step up
on.ft.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hard agree with this: on.ft.com/4mgkSBo
No government is perfect but it has been a relief to escape Brexit lunacy and live under one that has achieved significant social and environmental progress. renewal.org.uk/articles/dar...
Daring to deliver: Pedro Sánchez and the revival of Spanish social democracy
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Since 2018, Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez has led one of the most successful social democratic governments in the worl...
renewal.org.uk
May 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
No government is perfect but it has been a relief to escape Brexit lunacy and live under one that has achieved significant social and environmental progress. renewal.org.uk/articles/dar...
There is more prosperity from decarbonising than not decarbonising. (But Repsol, Enagás and others didn’t get the memo) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
European firms ramping up lobbying for climate action, report finds
Research shows companies ‘aligned’ with strategies to meet climate goals have risen from 3% in 2019 to 23% in 2025
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
There is more prosperity from decarbonising than not decarbonising. (But Repsol, Enagás and others didn’t get the memo) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Dive into the April 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin summary: second-warmest April on record globally, 1.51°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. End of four months with record low Arctic sea ice extent for the time of the year. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/2nd-warmest-...
May 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Dive into the April 2025 #C3S Climate Bulletin summary: second-warmest April on record globally, 1.51°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average. End of four months with record low Arctic sea ice extent for the time of the year. 🔗 climate.copernicus.eu/2nd-warmest-...