Jeff Hardy
@energyfuture.bsky.social
Sustainable energy geek, regulatory wonk, bad drummer, Liverpool fan. All opinions are my own (except where they are really good ones from other people).
Director of www.energyfuture.uk
Director of www.energyfuture.uk
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It is fascinating to see how Poland 🇵🇱, once an unlikely leader in the energy transition, is increasingly giving the green light to smart use of renewable energy.
Dynamic energy contracts make smart energy use attractive to consumers. Supportive optional network tariffs offer an additional boost.
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Dynamic energy contracts make smart energy use attractive to consumers. Supportive optional network tariffs offer an additional boost.
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August 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It is fascinating to see how Poland 🇵🇱, once an unlikely leader in the energy transition, is increasingly giving the green light to smart use of renewable energy.
Dynamic energy contracts make smart energy use attractive to consumers. Supportive optional network tariffs offer an additional boost.
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Dynamic energy contracts make smart energy use attractive to consumers. Supportive optional network tariffs offer an additional boost.
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Reminder that electricity is stacked with levies and a carbon tax and gas gets a free pass, fundamentally imbalancing the market.
While a heat pump specific payment might deliver a few heat pumps, it won't solve fundamentals and is at risk of cancellation. Wider reform needed.
While a heat pump specific payment might deliver a few heat pumps, it won't solve fundamentals and is at risk of cancellation. Wider reform needed.
July 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reminder that electricity is stacked with levies and a carbon tax and gas gets a free pass, fundamentally imbalancing the market.
While a heat pump specific payment might deliver a few heat pumps, it won't solve fundamentals and is at risk of cancellation. Wider reform needed.
While a heat pump specific payment might deliver a few heat pumps, it won't solve fundamentals and is at risk of cancellation. Wider reform needed.
Good thread by @guynewey.bsky.social.
I remain in the camp that I do not understand the problem that zonal pricing aims to fix.
But, I do agree that change is needed, and soon.
We need to have markets that work for the future energy system. Especially local heat, power, transport and people.
I remain in the camp that I do not understand the problem that zonal pricing aims to fix.
But, I do agree that change is needed, and soon.
We need to have markets that work for the future energy system. Especially local heat, power, transport and people.
A few zonal pricing thoughts for the weekend, as ministers contemplate politically difficult, contentious changes to the way electricity is priced....
April 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Good thread by @guynewey.bsky.social.
I remain in the camp that I do not understand the problem that zonal pricing aims to fix.
But, I do agree that change is needed, and soon.
We need to have markets that work for the future energy system. Especially local heat, power, transport and people.
I remain in the camp that I do not understand the problem that zonal pricing aims to fix.
But, I do agree that change is needed, and soon.
We need to have markets that work for the future energy system. Especially local heat, power, transport and people.
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I'm humbled to be appointed for this role leading a great team of researchers and experts focused on having policy impact through rigorous research and analysis.
We're excited to announce renowned energy expert @janrosenow.bsky.social has been appointed as ECI’s new energy programme lead, returning to the University of Oxford department where he completed his doctorate in Energy Policy 13 years ago
Read more: www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
Read more: www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
March 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I'm humbled to be appointed for this role leading a great team of researchers and experts focused on having policy impact through rigorous research and analysis.
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📢 Big Personal News!
At the end of April, I’ll be leading the Energy Programme @ecioxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social.
I’m excited to build on its legacy of world-leading energy research and create a global powerhouse on energy demand.
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www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
At the end of April, I’ll be leading the Energy Programme @ecioxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social.
I’m excited to build on its legacy of world-leading energy research and create a global powerhouse on energy demand.
👇
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
March 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
📢 Big Personal News!
At the end of April, I’ll be leading the Energy Programme @ecioxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social.
I’m excited to build on its legacy of world-leading energy research and create a global powerhouse on energy demand.
👇
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
At the end of April, I’ll be leading the Energy Programme @ecioxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordgeography.bsky.social.
I’m excited to build on its legacy of world-leading energy research and create a global powerhouse on energy demand.
👇
www.eci.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
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I know everything feels grim right now but let's be realistic. These people are idiots. They're going to tank their economy. They're going to fuck-up every deal they sign. They're going to leave America looking shattered and deranged. And all those who supported them will look as idiotic as they are
February 15, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I know everything feels grim right now but let's be realistic. These people are idiots. They're going to tank their economy. They're going to fuck-up every deal they sign. They're going to leave America looking shattered and deranged. And all those who supported them will look as idiotic as they are
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It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.
February 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
It's been a long time since Private Eye's satire has made me audibly wince, but this is so to the point if it were a knife people would demand it be banned.
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Two crucial features of this fascinating chart:
1. Starmer is preferred as PM to every other leader, despite Labour's polling woes
2. Farage loses to both Starmer and Davey, and ties with Badenoch despite Reform's polling surge
1. Starmer is preferred as PM to every other leader, despite Labour's polling woes
2. Farage loses to both Starmer and Davey, and ties with Badenoch despite Reform's polling surge
February 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Two crucial features of this fascinating chart:
1. Starmer is preferred as PM to every other leader, despite Labour's polling woes
2. Farage loses to both Starmer and Davey, and ties with Badenoch despite Reform's polling surge
1. Starmer is preferred as PM to every other leader, despite Labour's polling woes
2. Farage loses to both Starmer and Davey, and ties with Badenoch despite Reform's polling surge
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He makes himself big
February 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
He makes himself big
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This is tantamount to a revolution in regulatory affairs, inasmuch as Government is actually imposing consequences for poor work. If this were applied to the housebuilding sector, many companies would disappear overnight.
utilityweek.co.uk/government-s...
utilityweek.co.uk/government-s...
Government suspends installers over ‘sub-standard’ ECO and GBIS work - Utility Week
A total of 39 businesses have been suspended from installing new insulation in people’s homes under government schemes after inspections revealed they had performed sub-standard work. Routine checks c...
utilityweek.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
This is tantamount to a revolution in regulatory affairs, inasmuch as Government is actually imposing consequences for poor work. If this were applied to the housebuilding sector, many companies would disappear overnight.
utilityweek.co.uk/government-s...
utilityweek.co.uk/government-s...
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This article makes no sense. It asks the reader to believe that people who want to put capital into Thames demand a SAR to get rid of poor performers and bad debt, and simultaneously to believe that Reeves thinks a SAR would be bad for investment. /1
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water rescuers seek clean break before committing fresh funds
Exclusive: Some bidders demand temporary renationalisation to help cut debts and oust bosses
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This article makes no sense. It asks the reader to believe that people who want to put capital into Thames demand a SAR to get rid of poor performers and bad debt, and simultaneously to believe that Reeves thinks a SAR would be bad for investment. /1
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
You must earn and energy nerd badge.
You cannot blurt your way to an energy nerd badge.
You cannot blurt your way to an energy nerd badge.
![Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang speaking at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 13, 2024. Photographer: Kyodo/AP Images
So energy …
Fusion’s gonna work.
Fusion is going to work. Um. On what time frame?
Soon. Well, soon there will be a demonstration of net-gain fusion. You then have to build a system that doesn’t break. You have to scale it up. You have to figure out how to build a factory—build a lot of them—and you have to get regulatory approval. And that will take, you know, years altogether? But I would expect [Helion 20] will show you that fusion works soon.
20 Helion, a clean energy startup backed by Altman, Dustin Moskovitz and Reid Hoffman, focuses on developing nuclear fusion.
In the short term, is there any way to sustain AI’s growth without going backward on climate goals?
Yes, but none that is as good, in my opinion, as quickly permitting fusion reactors. I think our particular kind of fusion is such a beautiful approach that we should just race toward that and be done.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreiee7jjkbneuad2nrf4n2muxyl4ud6st5pnnr37b6tqep2nhnyreby@jpeg)
January 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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These look pretty sensible to me.
What do we do with the gas grid when gas demand declines?
I partnered with @richardlowes.bsky.social @regassistproj.bsky.social & @ckemfert.bsky.social @diw.de to explore this question.
We propose 5 steps for dealing with this challenge.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I partnered with @richardlowes.bsky.social @regassistproj.bsky.social & @ckemfert.bsky.social @diw.de to explore this question.
We propose 5 steps for dealing with this challenge.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
These look pretty sensible to me.
Helen and I were married in the Horniman Museum and insisted on a wedding photo under this #absoluteunit
The Horniman Natural History Gallery features this stunning walrus.
It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out.
This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends.
MAXIMUM WALRUS.
(📷: Tom Natt)
It was transported to England, purchased in 1886. There, the taxidermists, having never seen one in the wild, stuffed it until the wrinkles smoothed out.
This is a fully inflated walrus, my friends.
MAXIMUM WALRUS.
(📷: Tom Natt)
January 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Helen and I were married in the Horniman Museum and insisted on a wedding photo under this #absoluteunit
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One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch. She may well be the most hapless opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama. iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...
One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch
She might be the single worst opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama.
iandunt.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch. She may well be the most hapless opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama. iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...
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Ah man getting up in the dark is tough. My son is furious about it this morning.
I’ve seen some efforts to launder January’s reputation on here, but I’m not having it. Things get better so slowly in Jan - February is the truly underrated, fastest improving month
I’ve seen some efforts to launder January’s reputation on here, but I’m not having it. Things get better so slowly in Jan - February is the truly underrated, fastest improving month
January 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Ah man getting up in the dark is tough. My son is furious about it this morning.
I’ve seen some efforts to launder January’s reputation on here, but I’m not having it. Things get better so slowly in Jan - February is the truly underrated, fastest improving month
I’ve seen some efforts to launder January’s reputation on here, but I’m not having it. Things get better so slowly in Jan - February is the truly underrated, fastest improving month
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What are people's theories about why uk productivity growth collapsed in 2007?
Grateful for any suggestions.
Added bonus points for reconciling dire outcomes with very good inputs on things like regulation, universities, talent, openness etc?
Grateful for any suggestions.
Added bonus points for reconciling dire outcomes with very good inputs on things like regulation, universities, talent, openness etc?
January 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What are people's theories about why uk productivity growth collapsed in 2007?
Grateful for any suggestions.
Added bonus points for reconciling dire outcomes with very good inputs on things like regulation, universities, talent, openness etc?
Grateful for any suggestions.
Added bonus points for reconciling dire outcomes with very good inputs on things like regulation, universities, talent, openness etc?
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Excited to announce that the Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC), which I direct together w. Prof Sara Walker, is now on BSky. Follow @edrc-uk.bsky.social for updates on how we address #energydemand in buildings, transport & industry. Updates to come on research themes, findings, news & events.
January 13, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Excited to announce that the Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC), which I direct together w. Prof Sara Walker, is now on BSky. Follow @edrc-uk.bsky.social for updates on how we address #energydemand in buildings, transport & industry. Updates to come on research themes, findings, news & events.
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My 19 yo son wrote for @labourlist.bsky.social on why young men are attracted to Reform. The commentariat talk a lot about this phenomenon, but we rarely hear from the young men themselves. What struck me was that although "anti-woke" is part of it, so is economics. labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
‘Why Reform poses a threat to Labour among young men’ – LabourList
With Reform rising in the polls, we asked a 19-year-old first-time voter, who backed Labour at the election, for his perspective on the threat Reform…
labourlist.org
January 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
My 19 yo son wrote for @labourlist.bsky.social on why young men are attracted to Reform. The commentariat talk a lot about this phenomenon, but we rarely hear from the young men themselves. What struck me was that although "anti-woke" is part of it, so is economics. labourlist.org/2025/01/news...
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…morning has broken
December 29, 2024 at 10:21 AM
…morning has broken
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It’s time for THE charger.
Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.
It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!
#DigitalEU
Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.
It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!
#DigitalEU
December 28, 2024 at 7:09 AM
It’s time for THE charger.
Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.
It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!
#DigitalEU
Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.
It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!
#DigitalEU
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Having not read the sentencing remarks, I’m cautious about rushing to conclusions, but on its face Feathers McGraw appears to be a prime example of the rampant sentence inflation that has led to chronic overcrowding in our zoos and the unedifying spectacle of animals being released early.
Curious to know whether
@barristersecret.bsky.social thinks 30 years behind bars for robbery and attempted murder was a fair sentence for Feathers McGraw? It seems a bit steep #WallaceAndGromit
@barristersecret.bsky.social thinks 30 years behind bars for robbery and attempted murder was a fair sentence for Feathers McGraw? It seems a bit steep #WallaceAndGromit
December 28, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Having not read the sentencing remarks, I’m cautious about rushing to conclusions, but on its face Feathers McGraw appears to be a prime example of the rampant sentence inflation that has led to chronic overcrowding in our zoos and the unedifying spectacle of animals being released early.
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big news: from 8 Jan 2025, the absolute unit tweet will be on show in an actual museum (the National Science and Media Museum).
December 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM
big news: from 8 Jan 2025, the absolute unit tweet will be on show in an actual museum (the National Science and Media Museum).
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"Back then people didn't have deal with NIMBY's". I hear that a lot.
The first ever National Grid involved negotiations with 222k landowners and tenants. The Central Electricity Board appointed thousands of officers to persuade. Astonishingly, only 600 cases (0.27%) needed compulsory purchase.
The first ever National Grid involved negotiations with 222k landowners and tenants. The Central Electricity Board appointed thousands of officers to persuade. Astonishingly, only 600 cases (0.27%) needed compulsory purchase.
December 10, 2024 at 5:20 AM
"Back then people didn't have deal with NIMBY's". I hear that a lot.
The first ever National Grid involved negotiations with 222k landowners and tenants. The Central Electricity Board appointed thousands of officers to persuade. Astonishingly, only 600 cases (0.27%) needed compulsory purchase.
The first ever National Grid involved negotiations with 222k landowners and tenants. The Central Electricity Board appointed thousands of officers to persuade. Astonishingly, only 600 cases (0.27%) needed compulsory purchase.