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Stefan Bouzarovski
@stefanb23.bsky.social

Professor of Human Geography, University of Manchester. Into fighting urban injustice, researching energy/climate inequalities & network governance

Environmental science 31%
Energy 26%

*Job alert* We are advertising two opportunities @manchester.ac.uk, linked to the JUST centre (www.just.ac.uk)
- A Post-Doctoral Research Associate on Social & Built Infrastructure (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...)
- A PhD on Green Skills & Communities (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)
JUST (Dev) | Centre for Joined-up Sustainability Transformations | The University of Manchester
www.just.ac.uk

Join us in Brussels/online next week (registration closes soon, see below) for an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and policy-focused discussion on how to build inclusive and progressive energy futures in Europe and beyond ....
📢 Save the Date! 🗓️ We are glad to present: "Please Look Up: What does our energy & climate future look like?" 🌍💡

Join us and 8 EU projects in October to explore ways to achieve an #Efficient, #Resilient, #Fair, & #Smart energy future in Europe!

Register now: ieecp.org/events/save-...

We recently launched an #energyequity campaign within @edrc-uk.bsky.social - see below for the launch webinar link. Key messages focus on the benefits that #energyjustice brings, and the need for inclusive #energytransition framings. #energysky
We’re launching the EDRC Energy Equity Campaign sharing 6 high-level messages on equity in the energy system, grounded in evidence from our research. Watch the launch webinar & join the conversation on shaping a fairer energy future: youtu.be/BDLmZdKZ6iY
Talking home energy injustice: rethinking the language of inequality
YouTube video by Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC)
youtu.be

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We’re launching the EDRC Energy Equity Campaign sharing 6 high-level messages on equity in the energy system, grounded in evidence from our research. Watch the launch webinar & join the conversation on shaping a fairer energy future: youtu.be/BDLmZdKZ6iY
Talking home energy injustice: rethinking the language of inequality
YouTube video by Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC)
youtu.be
Wind and solar are the perfect renewable power pairing in Britain💨 ☀️

98% of the time, it is either windy or sunny. Particularly windy days are often cloudier, while very sunny days are usually calmer.

A match made in… Britain! 🤝

https://loom.ly/-pzxBgQ

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The piece calls for a grown-up conversation on climate. Let’s start here:

There’s a difference between “we can’t create a truly ecological civilization under capitalism” (true!) and “everything is a lie, we’re doomed, nothing we can do in the next decade is worthwhile” (false!)
Why are we calling the Trump-Pu meeting a "summit", but the Trump-Ze meeting was just a meeting? Ru isn't a great power and can't achieve its goals. Let's stop feeding their delusions of grandeur.

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🚨Heute: Anhörung im EP zur unrühmlichen Rolle der fossilen Konzerne in der Energiepreiskrise 🚨
Möglich gemacht durch erfolgreiche Petitionen der Koalition "Fossil Free Politics" (@powershift.bsky.social ist auch dabei)
ab 14:30 Uhr hier:
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...
Committee on Petitions - Multimedia Centre
Committee on Petitions
multimedia.europarl.europa.eu

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New #OpenAccess paper in The GJ:

'The determinants of double energy vulnerability: A geospatial analysis' by @stefanb23.bsky.social et al.

This paper investigates spatial & social disparities in access to energy & transport services in the UK.

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geo #geosky
The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates spatial and social disparities in access to energy and transport services in the UK, focusing on ‘double energy vulnerability’ (DEV). Using census and survey data, multi-dimen...
doi.org

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The FINAL installment of “Field Notes: Repair" is out now, featuring dispatches from people studying, thinking about & enacting repair around the world.

The aim is to open windows into repair — entry points where such work is catalyzed & planetary responsibility becomes shared.

Browse the series:

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Sevenans et al. in EJPR: "our study shows that – whenever there is a significant preference gap between lower- and higher-income groups – politicians’ perceptions of what citizens want are skewed towards the preferences of higher-income voters on socio-economic issues."

doi.org/10.1111/1475...
Are poor people poorly heard?
A growing body of literature shows that the preferences of poorer groups in society are less well represented than the preferences of the rich. This paper scrutinises one possible explanation of ineq....
doi.org

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"Energy transitions exhibit an ambiguous influence on energy poverty. In the countries heavily impacted by energy poverty, energy transitions have a mitigating role." By @stefanb23.bsky.social and colleagues. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Impact of energy transitions on energy poverty in the European Union
While there is a consensus on the importance of energy transitions for achieving a zero-carbon economy, concerns about unfavorable social impacts on m…
www.sciencedirect.com

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📢 Save the Date! 🗓️ We are glad to present: "Please Look Up: What does our energy & climate future look like?" 🌍💡

Join us and 8 EU projects in October to explore ways to achieve an #Efficient, #Resilient, #Fair, & #Smart energy future in Europe!

Register now: ieecp.org/events/save-...

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Over a million 'energy-insecure' UK homes have been built in decade since previous government controversially decided to ditch energy efficiency rules that would have enabled new homes to avoid expensive gas bills:

www.businessgreen.com/news/4516130...
'This could have been avoided': 1.3 million 'energy-insecure' UK homes built since 2015
Since the Zero Carbon Homes Standard was ditched in 2015, more than a million UK homes have been built with fossil gas heating and insufficient insulation levels, ECIU claims
www.businessgreen.com

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'Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe.'
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...
Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe
www.nytimes.com

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Let's challenge terms like "the energy poor" & call out broken system that causes inequities. New paper in @natenergy.nature.com led by @stefanb23.bsky.social w. @kcedano.bsky.social @lld8.bsky.social Tony Reames & Neil Simcock. 1/4

#energysky 🔌💡

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The WSJ didn't include the reason in their headline. Must not have had space. I fixed it.

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🏡 Who gets energy advice, and who misses out? New research by @stefanb23.bsky.social, Lilia Karpinska, Katherine Sugar and Sławomir Śmiech maps 131 providers across England, revealing major gaps in support. More inclusive, joined-up services are needed.
👉 tinyurl.com/3e6c2p5s
Networked, fragmented, unequal: The emergent landscape of home energy advice provision in England - Energy Demand Research Centre
tinyurl.com

Thank you to the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies @hcas.bsky.social for hosting me at the ‘Environment, Society and Politics’ conference last month. An opportunity to discuss the spectre of right-wing populism re: #justtransitions (and visit a neighbourhood sauna in new-build housing!)

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It’s windy with >11GW
It’s sunny with >8GW

(But nowhere near record-breaking for either)

Demand is low at 19.3GW

And we’ve got negative prices for consecutive hours, meaning some CfDs won’t be paid out.

A chance for GB consumers to experience some very low pricing

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A new report looks at the relationship between climate change and systemic racism.

Only by profiling voices at the heart of the crisis can we create climate policy that actually works 👇
www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/a-vision-for-climate-justice-a-report-from-the-appg-on-race-and-community
A vision for climate justice: a report from the APPG on Race and Community
A report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Race and Community, investigating the relationship between the climate emergency and systemic racism
www.runnymedetrust.org

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Researchers losing their grants are collaborating to make sense out of chaos. grant-watch.us
Grant Watch
grant-watch.us

Thank you 🙏🙈 and many congratulations to the others!
We know energy transitions are disruptive. Mainstream models represent smooth lines - renewables going up, fossil fuels going down. How then should we think about the disruptive qualities of energy transitions? @manchestersci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/
AI in education is:

- A political project to get even more private tech into schools and universities
- Habituating children and students to industry-defined and -demanded "jobs of the future"
- Often not actually "AI" ...

Do you not see a problem with the stigmatising and derogatory language used in the paper? Or the statement (using questionable evidence) that chippies are a 'marker of low educational attainment'? All this against a background of long-standing epistemic violence against working-class people/places.

I wouldn’t have commented on it without having read it. I think the paper should be withdrawn and an apology issued.

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Narrator from the future: it didn’t
Ohio to spend $195M to ease I-75 congestion in Greater Cincinnati
Interstate 75 traffic gets snarled. Ohio is working on solutions.
www.cincinnati.com

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This will probably get the least attention of all Trump's moves, but it is, in the fullness of history, the most monstrous & genocidal.
How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy
President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.
www.nytimes.com