Chris Brierley

I’m delighted to share the news that I’m starting a new position as Senior Advisor at @EnergySysCat ! Very excited to continue & widen the work we've been doing at @ActiveBuildingC Also very happy to be joining another 3 letter organisation: From BBC, PCC, ABC to ESC ! 😃

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working. Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

Data centres eat electricity. But their waste heat? Finland turns it into home heating. Cities are plugging data-centre heat into district-heating systems — cutting waste and cutting emissions.

@BristolCouncil you need to sort your Trenchard car park out !!! Chaos to exit people sitting for ages

@Glos_Police There are some good people who work in the office of police and crime commissioner and whatever happens I hope their roles are merged into the police where possible.

I am saddened by what has happened to @Glos_Police since Martin left office.

Whilst I think that @GlosPCC2012_21 did an amazing job. The role should never be party political. I think it has become party political and some PCCs are simply not up to the job. The independence of the @Glos_Police is paramount. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Great news 📰 he knows his stuff 👏🏻

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved. Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning. ig.ft.com/mega-batteries/

There are 10 countries in the world that have had 50% or more of a months total electricity generation from only solar and wind. All 10 countries are in the EU🇪🇺

Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England. If England built at French levels, it would have almost 3 million more homes. French homes are, on average, a fifth bigger that English homes.

I’ve thought a lot about whether it’s the right thing to talk about Rachel Reeves crying at PMQs. Because crying is not something we should be ashamed of, or something we should be judged for. Because crying is something associated with women - and in particular this misogynistic idea that women are too weak and emotional to be able to hack difficult jobs like being Chancellor (remember of course Rachel Reeves is the first female Chancellor as well.) And because on a human level I feel really sorry for her. I’ve cried at work. I’m sure lots of us have. And the Chancellor doesn’t have the luxury of being able to hide in the toilets, or slope off early. But people WILL talk about what happened at PMQs, because when it comes to politics, visual images stick. I remember that image of Rishi Sunak announcing the election in the pouring rain - an image he never really recovered from. Or the conference letters falling off behind Theresa May. Or Ed Miliband and the bacon sandwich - people don’t remember his tax proposals but my gosh they won’t forget that bacon sandwich. And people will remember Rachel Reeves crying at PMQs too. Politics is not fair, and none of those moments that we all remember were the fault of the individual. But here’s the thing - they stuck in the public consciousness because of a sense they were symbolic of a wider truth. They didn’t happen when the politicians were at their strongest - when they were Teflon - they happened when they were weak. And I cannot emphasise enough what a big deal last night was. The Government was forced to junk its flagship welfare policy just an hour or two before the vote. That is such a big moment. Honestly I’m not sure things will be the same again. It’s a bit like a couple having a terrible argument in a long term relationship - they might not break up, but something changes. They never completely recover. Keir Starmer’s authority. The loyalty of the parliamentary Labour Party. People’s faith in the No10 operation. And most importantly - the bond of trust with the electorate. Because they told us again and again these changes were necessary and that they had no choice. They said they were going to happen...and then they didn’t.

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"Twenty years ago, the main problem with renewables was that they were so expensive. Now, renewables are cheap, but we need to be able to match that supply to demand. For that, battery storage is clearly one of the best tools in the box.” More in @Bloomberg piece with my quotes.

@guynewey youtube.com/watch?v=e8g7Oz…

💡 "If you had a much more flexible demand side and your annual car was basically a kind of mini power station... you'd be able to draw on some of that sometimes to avoid some of the high prices." @GuyNewey explains the EV opportunity Britain is missing. 👇

Guy @EnergySysCat giving an overview on why LAEPs are key to helping local areas #investment #growth by having a data led plan ! These plans should help in the UK govt 2030 plans @Ed_Miliband. @WelshGovernment rolled it out. Why not in England ?🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Darren Jones says the majority of small boat asylum seekers are young children and women #BBCQT Zia Yusuf says they're adult men Darren Jones then explains how Zia Yusuf is wrong