Daniel Gear
@dangear.bsky.social
Energy & politics | Co-founder of Equitable Energy Research. Other stuff here: https://linktr.ee/danielgear
Had to share this memory from last year - I had been away with work, and when I arrived home, my youngest daughter (5 at the time) couldn't wait to tell me that her story had been chosen for publication in a kids book of short stories. This was her story... 😂🙈
July 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Had to share this memory from last year - I had been away with work, and when I arrived home, my youngest daughter (5 at the time) couldn't wait to tell me that her story had been chosen for publication in a kids book of short stories. This was her story... 😂🙈
Reform UK are weaponising a growing net zero cynicism in the UK - and it might just get them into power. Check out my article if you have 5 mins.
Reform UK have understood something that the industry can’t admit: growing energy transition cynicism could put them into power
Richard Tice's letter to energy sector leaders on Wednesday is the clearest sign yet that Reform UK intend to weaponise growing net zero cynicism to propel them into power.
open.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Reform UK are weaponising a growing net zero cynicism in the UK - and it might just get them into power. Check out my article if you have 5 mins.
The current direction of energy market reform risks reinforcing a trajectory for Scotland where the majority of the benefits are extracted while the burdens are localised.
This short viewpoint covers the REMA announcement, and some broader ideas on community ownership.
This short viewpoint covers the REMA announcement, and some broader ideas on community ownership.
July 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The current direction of energy market reform risks reinforcing a trajectory for Scotland where the majority of the benefits are extracted while the burdens are localised.
This short viewpoint covers the REMA announcement, and some broader ideas on community ownership.
This short viewpoint covers the REMA announcement, and some broader ideas on community ownership.
Reposted by Daniel Gear
Anyone who thinks our benefit system is too generous, has clearly had their common sense surgically extracted by the Daily Mail.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
November 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Anyone who thinks our benefit system is too generous, has clearly had their common sense surgically extracted by the Daily Mail.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
Losing your job is financially catastrophic (esp for mortgage payers, who drop to just 12% of an average wage overnight). And our sickness benefits bill is similarly mean.
I'm all for progressive taxation, but this isn't that. Farming can be an extremely marginal business, even on land that is valued highly on paper. I know farms that have been passed down for 300+ years from one generation to the next. Tax levied at the point of land sale feels less destructive.
EXCLUSIVE: Corporations may buy up even more of Scotland’s land as a result of the Labour Government's new inheritance tax on farmers
Suicides in an already high-risk industry are predicted to rise as a result of the tax
Suicides in an already high-risk industry are predicted to rise as a result of the tax
New inheritance tax for farmers may mean bad news for Scotland's land
Corporates may buy up even more of Scotland’s land as a result of the Labour government’s new inheritance tax on farmland, it has been warned ...
www.thenational.scot
November 24, 2024 at 10:03 AM
I'm all for progressive taxation, but this isn't that. Farming can be an extremely marginal business, even on land that is valued highly on paper. I know farms that have been passed down for 300+ years from one generation to the next. Tax levied at the point of land sale feels less destructive.
This article is vital reading re. the principles of a 'just' transition.
"Wind and solar only require massive natural and human sacrifice if you fail to regulate the corporations that build them".
Couldn't agree more. 🙌
"Wind and solar only require massive natural and human sacrifice if you fail to regulate the corporations that build them".
Couldn't agree more. 🙌
All high-success climate action models show a sustained very-high construction rate of new renewable energy for the rest of our lives.
This is why development needs to fundamentally respect biodiversity and people: blunt-force approaches cannot deliver smooth growth over many decades.
This is why development needs to fundamentally respect biodiversity and people: blunt-force approaches cannot deliver smooth growth over many decades.
Nature and people shouldn’t be designated losers in the energy transition
A rebuttal, in which I argue that we don’t have to sacrifice nature or community cohesion to build clean power
ketanjoshi.co
November 23, 2024 at 8:48 PM
This article is vital reading re. the principles of a 'just' transition.
"Wind and solar only require massive natural and human sacrifice if you fail to regulate the corporations that build them".
Couldn't agree more. 🙌
"Wind and solar only require massive natural and human sacrifice if you fail to regulate the corporations that build them".
Couldn't agree more. 🙌
Love the sunrise on this kind of day
November 21, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Love the sunrise on this kind of day
Love deep menacing blues, which gradually blacken as snow showers get closer and night draws in.
November 18, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Love deep menacing blues, which gradually blacken as snow showers get closer and night draws in.
Continuing the theme of things I love: spindrift. When, on days like today, the wind picks up spray from the surface of the sea.
November 16, 2024 at 12:52 PM
Continuing the theme of things I love: spindrift. When, on days like today, the wind picks up spray from the surface of the sea.
Community Compensation ≠ Community Benefits ≠ Community Wealth
Energy developers really should be mindful that to call Community Benefits '#communitywealth' is misleading and specious. #Communitywealthbuilding is an economic system change process with inclusive and democratic ownership at its core. It ain't payments to communities.
November 16, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Community Compensation ≠ Community Benefits ≠ Community Wealth
When it comes to creating community wealth from energy developments, Shetland has a singular experience of the good, the bad, and the downright disastrous. Last month Voar launched a report on this; there are lessons for the whole country in here:
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
November 14, 2024 at 10:41 PM
When it comes to creating community wealth from energy developments, Shetland has a singular experience of the good, the bad, and the downright disastrous. Last month Voar launched a report on this; there are lessons for the whole country in here:
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...
www.justtransition.scot/publication/...