Juliet Phillips
@julietphillips.bsky.social
Campaigner @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social often thinking about a fairer, fossil free energy system ⚡️ Also interested in housing justice, energy poverty & climate politics. Barcelona via London. She/ her.
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Important thread here on the possibility of scrapping ECO. I would add that when ECO was cut in 2013, 10,000 people lost their jobs. That's more than 3 times as many than Scunthorpe steel works and a whopping 20 times more than Grangemouth oil refinery
I’m afraid I’ve heard enough to take this seriously - No.10 is thinking of abolishing ECO, the main source of funding for upgrading fuel poor homes.
There’s no way to sugar coat this: it would be a disaster.
And it would mean this government spending less on upgrading homes than the last one
There’s no way to sugar coat this: it would be a disaster.
And it would mean this government spending less on upgrading homes than the last one
To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦♂️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Important thread here on the possibility of scrapping ECO. I would add that when ECO was cut in 2013, 10,000 people lost their jobs. That's more than 3 times as many than Scunthorpe steel works and a whopping 20 times more than Grangemouth oil refinery
Calling all researchers & comms agencies!
@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social has 2 tenders to shine a light on local electricity grid operators🕵️♀️ beyondfossilfuels.org/about-us/wor...
1️⃣ Struggling for connection: stories of unequal access
2️⃣ The costs of grid connection delays: Quantifying the problem
@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social has 2 tenders to shine a light on local electricity grid operators🕵️♀️ beyondfossilfuels.org/about-us/wor...
1️⃣ Struggling for connection: stories of unequal access
2️⃣ The costs of grid connection delays: Quantifying the problem
Work with us
Europe Beyond Coal is looking for committed, enthusiastic professionals to join their team. We would love to hear from you!
beyondfossilfuels.org
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Calling all researchers & comms agencies!
@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social has 2 tenders to shine a light on local electricity grid operators🕵️♀️ beyondfossilfuels.org/about-us/wor...
1️⃣ Struggling for connection: stories of unequal access
2️⃣ The costs of grid connection delays: Quantifying the problem
@beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social has 2 tenders to shine a light on local electricity grid operators🕵️♀️ beyondfossilfuels.org/about-us/wor...
1️⃣ Struggling for connection: stories of unequal access
2️⃣ The costs of grid connection delays: Quantifying the problem
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🚨New polling across 🇮🇪, 🇬🇧, 🇪🇸, 🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 finds:
👉 76% of people believe new data centres should be powered with renewable energy.
👉73% want governments to set clear criteria for energy distribution.
Renewables, transparency, & fairness are key for data centres.
More: beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...
👉 76% of people believe new data centres should be powered with renewable energy.
👉73% want governments to set clear criteria for energy distribution.
Renewables, transparency, & fairness are key for data centres.
More: beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🚨New polling across 🇮🇪, 🇬🇧, 🇪🇸, 🇨🇭, 🇩🇪 finds:
👉 76% of people believe new data centres should be powered with renewable energy.
👉73% want governments to set clear criteria for energy distribution.
Renewables, transparency, & fairness are key for data centres.
More: beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...
👉 76% of people believe new data centres should be powered with renewable energy.
👉73% want governments to set clear criteria for energy distribution.
Renewables, transparency, & fairness are key for data centres.
More: beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...
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Electricity grid upgrades are central to Europe's future energy security and competitiveness.
To achieve this, it needs to:
1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition.
2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public
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To achieve this, it needs to:
1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition.
2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public
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October 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Electricity grid upgrades are central to Europe's future energy security and competitiveness.
To achieve this, it needs to:
1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition.
2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public
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To achieve this, it needs to:
1️⃣ Give national regulators a statutory mandate for the energy transition.
2️⃣ Create independent system operators and planners (ISOPs) to oversee grid planning in the public
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Important new legal analysis for @umwelthilfe.bsky.social concludes that the German government's planned 20GW gas plants is incompatible with EU state aid law ⛔
The Commission must scrutinise this costly fossil hand-out, which would add billions to energy bills. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...
The Commission must scrutinise this costly fossil hand-out, which would add billions to energy bills. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...
Handelsblatt
www.handelsblatt.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Important new legal analysis for @umwelthilfe.bsky.social concludes that the German government's planned 20GW gas plants is incompatible with EU state aid law ⛔
The Commission must scrutinise this costly fossil hand-out, which would add billions to energy bills. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...
The Commission must scrutinise this costly fossil hand-out, which would add billions to energy bills. www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...
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⚡ Europe’s clean energy transition can only move as fast as its electricity grids.
But outdated regulation and limited oversight are slowing things down. RAP and @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social propose two urgent reforms for national governments to make grids fit for the energy transition.👇
But outdated regulation and limited oversight are slowing things down. RAP and @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social propose two urgent reforms for national governments to make grids fit for the energy transition.👇
https://www.raponline.org/blog/better-oversight-better-foresight/👇
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
⚡ Europe’s clean energy transition can only move as fast as its electricity grids.
But outdated regulation and limited oversight are slowing things down. RAP and @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social propose two urgent reforms for national governments to make grids fit for the energy transition.👇
But outdated regulation and limited oversight are slowing things down. RAP and @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social propose two urgent reforms for national governments to make grids fit for the energy transition.👇
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NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries.
📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
NEW | Surging wind and solar power helped make electricity in Spain CHEAPER than in most European countries.
📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
📈 As wind and solar grows…
📉 …The influence of costly fossil fuels on the electricity price shrinks
https://loom.ly/8DEmqVc
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This is good messaging and we know from the social science that — if it breaks through — it actually hurts far-right parties like Reform.
Correct & strategic on multiple dimensions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Correct & strategic on multiple dimensions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband
Exclusive: Energy secretary will hit out at the Tory and Reform ‘culture war’ and unveil target of 400,000 new jobs in clean energy
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is good messaging and we know from the social science that — if it breaks through — it actually hurts far-right parties like Reform.
Correct & strategic on multiple dimensions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Correct & strategic on multiple dimensions. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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👏 @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for exposing the gas rip-off! Gas was just 30% of UK power last year but glas plants set prices 97% of the time.
That's how 2 plants made £18m in 3 hrs last winter.
Time to stop rigging energy in favour of fossil fuels!
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/greenpe...
That's how 2 plants made £18m in 3 hrs last winter.
Time to stop rigging energy in favour of fossil fuels!
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/greenpe...
Greenpeace activists scale power station’s 75-metre chimney stacks to protest ‘The Great Gas Rip-Off’ - Greenpeace UK
Campaigners demand energy reforms to stop expensive gas from setting electricity prices and pushing up bills.
www.greenpeace.org.uk
September 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
👏 @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for exposing the gas rip-off! Gas was just 30% of UK power last year but glas plants set prices 97% of the time.
That's how 2 plants made £18m in 3 hrs last winter.
Time to stop rigging energy in favour of fossil fuels!
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/greenpe...
That's how 2 plants made £18m in 3 hrs last winter.
Time to stop rigging energy in favour of fossil fuels!
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/greenpe...
In 🇬🇧, 77 long duration storage schemes, totalling 28.7GW, have been identified for a programme to use energy smartly & support energy resilience.
Alongside renewables & flexible energy use, this could go a long way towards displacing UK's 37GW gas plant fleet🔋
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
Alongside renewables & flexible energy use, this could go a long way towards displacing UK's 37GW gas plant fleet🔋
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
‘Super battery’ schemes will store green power and save consumers money – Ofgem
The regulator announced 77 long duration energy storage projects progressing to the final assessment stage of a ‘cap and floor’ support scheme.
www.independent.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In 🇬🇧, 77 long duration storage schemes, totalling 28.7GW, have been identified for a programme to use energy smartly & support energy resilience.
Alongside renewables & flexible energy use, this could go a long way towards displacing UK's 37GW gas plant fleet🔋
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
Alongside renewables & flexible energy use, this could go a long way towards displacing UK's 37GW gas plant fleet🔋
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
Amazing work @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social exposing the role that expensive gas plays in setting electricity prices & pushing up bills 👏
“We’re all being ripped off by greedy gas companies & it’s the poorest in society that bear the brunt of sky-high prices.”
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
“We’re all being ripped off by greedy gas companies & it’s the poorest in society that bear the brunt of sky-high prices.”
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Green protesters scale chimney stacks at Nottinghamshire gas-fired power station
Greenpeace said the action is to call for energy market reforms that would prevent volatile gas prices setting electricity prices.
www.independent.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Amazing work @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social exposing the role that expensive gas plays in setting electricity prices & pushing up bills 👏
“We’re all being ripped off by greedy gas companies & it’s the poorest in society that bear the brunt of sky-high prices.”
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
“We’re all being ripped off by greedy gas companies & it’s the poorest in society that bear the brunt of sky-high prices.”
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Activists have climbed England’s LARGEST gas power station to demand lower energy bills 🚨
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September 22, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Activists have climbed England’s LARGEST gas power station to demand lower energy bills 🚨
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🆕 New research reveals: Britain is a nation of clean-energy enthusiasts
According to Climate Outreach's Britain Talks Climate & Nature 2025 report, renewables already power over half of the UK’s electricity, and more than 85% of people support expanding this progress.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
🆕 New research reveals: Britain is a nation of clean-energy enthusiasts
According to Climate Outreach's Britain Talks Climate & Nature 2025 report, renewables already power over half of the UK’s electricity, and more than 85% of people support expanding this progress.
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New analysis from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social shows nearly 1/4 of the average UK energy bill in 2024 went to company profits, not reinvestment.
Not only that, shareholders of 🇬🇧's privatised energy companies got at least £70.7bn in dividend payouts from 2010 - 2025.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Not only that, shareholders of 🇬🇧's privatised energy companies got at least £70.7bn in dividend payouts from 2010 - 2025.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders
Analysis reveals £416 of average bill of £1,719 taken as pre-tax profits by the major energy industries last year, rather than being reinvested
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
New analysis from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social shows nearly 1/4 of the average UK energy bill in 2024 went to company profits, not reinvestment.
Not only that, shareholders of 🇬🇧's privatised energy companies got at least £70.7bn in dividend payouts from 2010 - 2025.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Not only that, shareholders of 🇬🇧's privatised energy companies got at least £70.7bn in dividend payouts from 2010 - 2025.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Good to see journalists critically pursue the approach of German Economics Minister, who is twisting facts to slow down the clean energy transition.
"Reiche's focus on gas plants seems out of date. New gas plants would have to be massively subsidized."
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...
"Reiche's focus on gas plants seems out of date. New gas plants would have to be massively subsidized."
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...
September 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Good to see journalists critically pursue the approach of German Economics Minister, who is twisting facts to slow down the clean energy transition.
"Reiche's focus on gas plants seems out of date. New gas plants would have to be massively subsidized."
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...
"Reiche's focus on gas plants seems out of date. New gas plants would have to be massively subsidized."
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...
Compare the approach of the Spanish prime minister following Palestine protests a la Vuelta a España, to the UK crackdown..
"We have immense respect & profound admiration for a Spanish civil society that mobilizes against injustice & peacefully defends ideas"
elpais.com/espana/2025-...
"We have immense respect & profound admiration for a Spanish civil society that mobilizes against injustice & peacefully defends ideas"
elpais.com/espana/2025-...
September 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Compare the approach of the Spanish prime minister following Palestine protests a la Vuelta a España, to the UK crackdown..
"We have immense respect & profound admiration for a Spanish civil society that mobilizes against injustice & peacefully defends ideas"
elpais.com/espana/2025-...
"We have immense respect & profound admiration for a Spanish civil society that mobilizes against injustice & peacefully defends ideas"
elpais.com/espana/2025-...
In the US, capacity auction prices - paid via costs passed on to consumers by utilities - are set to soar off the back of rocketing energy demand from data centres.
Hardly seems fair that household energy bills will be used to help line the pockets of tech giants.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Hardly seems fair that household energy bills will be used to help line the pockets of tech giants.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Soaring US power auction prices set to spur new projects
Price jumps in several U.S. capacity markets signal greater revenue opportunities for power plant developers as AI demand squeezes the market and increases energy costs for consumers.
www.reuters.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In the US, capacity auction prices - paid via costs passed on to consumers by utilities - are set to soar off the back of rocketing energy demand from data centres.
Hardly seems fair that household energy bills will be used to help line the pockets of tech giants.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Hardly seems fair that household energy bills will be used to help line the pockets of tech giants.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Love this video from @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on the Great Gas Rip-Off!
Earlier this year, @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Fossil Gas Freeloaders league table highlighted Britain as one of the biggest sources of gas plant subsidies in Europe 🤑
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/06/26/f...
Earlier this year, @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Fossil Gas Freeloaders league table highlighted Britain as one of the biggest sources of gas plant subsidies in Europe 🤑
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/06/26/f...
September 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Love this video from @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on the Great Gas Rip-Off!
Earlier this year, @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Fossil Gas Freeloaders league table highlighted Britain as one of the biggest sources of gas plant subsidies in Europe 🤑
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/06/26/f...
Earlier this year, @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social Fossil Gas Freeloaders league table highlighted Britain as one of the biggest sources of gas plant subsidies in Europe 🤑
beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/06/26/f...
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How are gas companies getting away with this??
Ultimately, we all want the same thing: cheaper electricity that doesn’t damage our air or the health of our children and communities.
We have the solutions. Now we just need action. Sign the petition to stop the Great Gas Rip-Off --> act.gp/4mcKPAt
Ultimately, we all want the same thing: cheaper electricity that doesn’t damage our air or the health of our children and communities.
We have the solutions. Now we just need action. Sign the petition to stop the Great Gas Rip-Off --> act.gp/4mcKPAt
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
How are gas companies getting away with this??
Ultimately, we all want the same thing: cheaper electricity that doesn’t damage our air or the health of our children and communities.
We have the solutions. Now we just need action. Sign the petition to stop the Great Gas Rip-Off --> act.gp/4mcKPAt
Ultimately, we all want the same thing: cheaper electricity that doesn’t damage our air or the health of our children and communities.
We have the solutions. Now we just need action. Sign the petition to stop the Great Gas Rip-Off --> act.gp/4mcKPAt
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Let's be clear: The flood of hatred sloshing across Britain right now is 100% a product of the political and media elite scapegoating minorities for the harms that those elites have visited upon the country.
Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.
September 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Let's be clear: The flood of hatred sloshing across Britain right now is 100% a product of the political and media elite scapegoating minorities for the harms that those elites have visited upon the country.
The German Federal Network Agency has published shaky modelling overlooking clean flexibility to conclude 🇩🇪 needs 22-36GW of new gas plants🤯
Experts note how farcical it is to overlook storage potential, when 500GW storage projects are queuing to connect to the grid
www.linkedin.com/posts/carste...
Experts note how farcical it is to overlook storage potential, when 500GW storage projects are queuing to connect to the grid
www.linkedin.com/posts/carste...
Der Versorgungssicherheitsbericht der Bundesnetzagentur lässt mich fassungslos zurück. Warum? Die BNetzA hat darauf verzichtet, die Batteriegroßspeicher zu modellieren. Was ist aber ein… | Carsten Pfe...
Der Versorgungssicherheitsbericht der Bundesnetzagentur lässt mich fassungslos zurück. Warum? Die BNetzA hat darauf verzichtet, die Batteriegroßspeicher zu modellieren. Was ist aber ein Versorgungssic...
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September 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The German Federal Network Agency has published shaky modelling overlooking clean flexibility to conclude 🇩🇪 needs 22-36GW of new gas plants🤯
Experts note how farcical it is to overlook storage potential, when 500GW storage projects are queuing to connect to the grid
www.linkedin.com/posts/carste...
Experts note how farcical it is to overlook storage potential, when 500GW storage projects are queuing to connect to the grid
www.linkedin.com/posts/carste...
New @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @adambell.bsky.social research finds removing gas plants from the market could reduce household energy bills £1.7bn/ year, & by £3.3bn for businesses.
Crazy as Poland & Germany look to massively increase dependence on gas power..
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Crazy as Poland & Germany look to massively increase dependence on gas power..
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Energy users ‘could save £5bn a year’ if gas plants are removed from market
Former energy tsar suggests the ‘radical step’ as one of the few options the government has for cutting bills
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
New @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @adambell.bsky.social research finds removing gas plants from the market could reduce household energy bills £1.7bn/ year, & by £3.3bn for businesses.
Crazy as Poland & Germany look to massively increase dependence on gas power..
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Crazy as Poland & Germany look to massively increase dependence on gas power..
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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1/3 🚩Worrying news: Data centre developers in the UK are asking about linking directly to fossil gas pipelines. 🚩
Turning to fossil gas to power new data centres would undermine the UK’s Clean Power Act and drive up both emissions and electricity bills.
www.ft.com/content/7540...
Turning to fossil gas to power new data centres would undermine the UK’s Clean Power Act and drive up both emissions and electricity bills.
www.ft.com/content/7540...
Data centres look to tap UK gas pipelines to meet power demands
Official enquiries about grid connection suggest need for speedy energy access will support fossil fuel use
www.ft.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
1/3 🚩Worrying news: Data centre developers in the UK are asking about linking directly to fossil gas pipelines. 🚩
Turning to fossil gas to power new data centres would undermine the UK’s Clean Power Act and drive up both emissions and electricity bills.
www.ft.com/content/7540...
Turning to fossil gas to power new data centres would undermine the UK’s Clean Power Act and drive up both emissions and electricity bills.
www.ft.com/content/7540...
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I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heat pumps could halve heating bills with energy system reform, study finds
Steps to make electricity cheaper, such as ending levies, could transform prospects for pumps, thinktank shows
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...