Grubbycw
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We are probably already making more electricity from clean sources than GB demand but keep gas on the system for technical reasons unknown to me and end up exporting some.
But I think very soon we will have the first periods with zero fossil fuels on our grid. 😃
BeSteveL 🐝@BrknMan
It's very close. Six years ago the grid announced the pathfinder projects to enable a grid with zero fossil fuels. Are we about to see it happen for the first time. Gas down to 4% and most of our European connectors exporting.
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@Eloise98496253 @campbellclaret You can say what Trump is doing is very very wrong without supporting Iran
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@campbellclaret You pro the tyrannical regime in Iran then ?
Terrorist exporters who brutally murder their own young people if they protest . 30-40 k in January and February alone . Women can’t laugh in the street etc.
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Deranged. We should have as little to do with this guy in this mode as is humanly and strategically possible.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL@campbellclaret
This says to me the Iranians have got him where they want him … Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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@sarah_go_green @OctopusEnergy Yes but it's the back up required to guarantee energy when the wind isn't blowing and sun isn't shining that makes our electricity expensive. We need to solve that in a cost effective manner first
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Since 1st March when Trump started his war i've produced 542 kWh of electricty from my roof in Costa del Wales.
15 panels and almost the smallest invertor (converts solar into usable energy) you can have.
The average home uses 225 kWh a month of electricity.
Not even summer.
We need more rooftop solar and battery storage.
This won't just work this year it'll work for years. I'm already 3 years in and it's obvious generating energy in your roof and storing it is the way to go.
octopusreferral.link/solar-panels-i…
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@AnthonyAinsdale It's not, the US is losing its status as a superpower quickly, it clearly can't be trusted, strong military alliances need to be formed with Europe
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This is completely and utterly wrong on every level. The EU has no economic growth and can't defend itself. We should be moving closer to the US.
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Trump said enough to Iran. Yes he did.
Peter Daou@peterdaou
Is there no leader in the Western world with the courage to say "ENOUGH!"
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@jonburkeUK You just lose credibility by becoming tribal, North Sea taxes funded the welfare state
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Sorry Catherine, these are the facts:
🛢️ 93% of North Sea oil & gas has been drained by private companies.
🛢️ Production peaked in 1999.
🛢️ Norway’s state-owned Statoil managed reserves well. That’s why have some left.
🛢️The Tories used ours to halve income tax for the rich.
Catherine McBride OBE@CeeMacBee
Dozens of North Sea oil and gas fields blocked by net zero And the Wind Fall Tax. There are 51 known new fields in British waters that could be feeding domestic pipes but have been rendered “unviable” by current government policies, including the windfall tax and a ban on exploration licences. On top of these, some 60 extensions to existing fields are being held back for the same reasons, according to trade body Offshore Energy UK (OEUK). telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…
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If companies started drilling new wells today it would make no difference to the U.K. price of petrol and natural gas.
GB News@GBNEWS
Ed Miliband staring down Labour rebellion on North Sea oil as energy prices soar gbnews.com/politics/energ…
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@PatrickBury The more pertinent point is that looking forward, the peace dividend has ended, money needs to be invested in defence, energy and food security. What leader is going to stand up and say the welfare state is over, pensions need to be frozen and productivity must be prioritised?
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The Iran war has caused a lot of people to clock how thin UK defences actually are.
But the uncomfortable truth is:
Brexit has made the economy ~4% smaller. That’s ~£100bn/year; £35–45bn/year less tax.
And the current Defence budget? ~£60bn.
Without Brexit we could have maintained a military fit for purpose, a better NHS… and less potholes!
Instead we’re arguing about which to prioritise while having permanently shrunk the economy that pays for it.
Brexit was an act of strategic self harm that has left Britain economically and militarily weaker, right as the world gets more volatile …
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@Aris_Utensil So you would side with a regime that deliberately targets and murders civilians in Ukraine?
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Tim White@TWMCLtd
Share this video far and wide, to remind everyone that #RussiaIsATerroristState At least one person's been killed in Korosten in the Zhytomyr region as Russia destroyed an entire street. Four people have been dragged alive from the rubble. The US is culpable by its inaction.
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I pick Russia and China.
Mike Coté@ratlpolicy
For Europe, it is a time for choosing. They can either align with the American bloc or the Chinese bloc. If Europe thinks it can play both sides, it is sorely mistaken. There is no halfway here. Choose wisely; the fate of your continent quite literally depends on it.
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@IAPonomarenko @KernowMaya Why don't Ukraine do what Iran has done and refuse to deal with the clowns
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And we all know in advance what’s that going to be and how it will end.
Alex Raufoglu@ralakbar
NEW!! Ukraine expects top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to lead a US delegation to Kyiv this month, Zelenskiy’s chief of staff says The team may arrive shortly after Orthodox Easter, which is celebrated on April 12, Kyrylo Budanov told Bloomberg
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@MarvinTBaumann Sorry don't agree and I'm no Trump fan, don't put boots on the ground but blocking airspace and access to bases is petty
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The Americans are acting as if we just happen to dislike Trump and thus disallow them access to airspace and bases.
In reality the US launched an unnecessary war that is about to crash the global economy with the biggest energy crisis ever.
That is why we block you, rightfully.
Kurt Schlichter@KurtSchlichter
The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America. The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation. The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. “Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.” Nope. We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.
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@Euan_MacDonald Best thing for me, there has been a realisation that the US is not an ally to Ukraine, Trump and his cronies are compromised by money or Kompromat and the shackles are off... Europe needs Ukraine to be at the heart of the military alliance for the end of US hegemony
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Is the tide finally turning?
Ukraine's air campaign is expanding just as fascist Russia is experiencing shortages of air defense interceptor missiles, as well as accuracy problems with the ballistic missiles it uses to attack Ukraine (likely due to Ukrainian attacks on Russian missile production sites).
On the ground, Ukraine has been killing more invading Russian troops that Russia can recruit for the last three months or so - the net Russian force deficit per month is now around 5,000 troops.
At sea, Ukraine has expanded the geography of its strikes on the Russian shadow oil tanker fleet to the Mediterranean.
Meanwhile, Trump is too distracted by his war on Iran to do much to aid Putin.
Yaroslav Trofimov@yarotrof
Massive Ukrainian bombing raid on three Russian chemicals plants in Togliatti on the Volga, some 600 miles away. It’s as far from Ukraine as Switzerland or Denmark.
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@aled_zachary @v_j_freeman @MarkDavies67 @Mr_Andrew_Fox And your point is? The UK benefits from tax & jobs surely that should be a good enough reason to drill?
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@v_j_freeman @MarkDavies67 @Mr_Andrew_Fox Deliberately misleading.
What is true - UK would benefit from tax & jobs. Some security of supply advantages.
What is NOT true - UK does not get cheaper gas just because it’s produced domestically because it will sell at market price and the NBP & TTF are closely linked.
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As someone with many years involvement in the physical movement of natural gas around Europe from field to end customer the ignorance in this post physically pains me.
Zoe Gardner@ZoeJardiniere
It is blowing my mind how many people don’t seem able to grasp that oil & gas in the North Sea is not “ours” but was sold off to private companies who will trade it on the international market like any other fuel. We don’t get any kind of privileged access to this fuel.
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@OlegKostour @dipapip The bigger play is there is a Kremlin Asset in the White House
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It’s illogical for Vance to be going to a small 9.5M person country like Hungary of all places on a trivial matter, while the U.S. is 5 weeks into a war with Iran - with pilots crashing and F15’s being lost. Unless there’s something bigger at play. I.e.,
1) Secret back-channeling with Russia occurring with some horse trading re: the Iran war (Hungary is a known hotbed of Russian assets / spies).
2) Trying to prop up the Hungarian leader so as to hinder the EU in a similar strategy to Russia, using Orban as a spoiler for EU policies / unity.
I can’t see any other reason the political outcome of an election in a small country far away from the U.S. would take precedence over this war. It has to be something very crucial.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum
JD Vance is heading to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban. Here is a description of the corrupt regime, and the bizarre, post-reality campaign, that the US administration now supports: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…
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The assertion that 'all N Sea gas is pumped directly to UK homes' is easily disproved by a cursery Google. It's so much more complicated than Neil is making out. But he's doubling down on the moronic #drillbabydrill rhetoric. He seems to be getting very agitated.
Andrew Neil@afneil
Your mind is clearly blown because you have no idea what you’re talking about. Let’s just take gas. All of it comes by pipeline into the UK and is used in the UK. Oil is a bit more complicated but I’ll let you grapple with the facts about gas before moving on to that. Let me know if you have any questions about gas. Happy to help.
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Reports on Telegram on the results of Ukrainian strikes on the ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga.
Briefly, here's what's going on:
▫️ Oil bases No. 1 and No. 2 of the "Transneft Port Primorsk" company, the "Slavneft-YANOS" base, the "Novatek Ust-Luga" base, and other enterprises were put out of action;
▫️ Two oil reservoirs of 50,000 m³ each at the "Transneft Port Primorsk" were burned down;
▫️ The Primorsk Sea Port was shut down, with fires breaking out at docks 1, 2, 8, and 9, as well as on tankers near docks 2 and 4;
▫️ One Russian "Pantsir S1" was hit.
⚠️ Important. The reports refute Russian claims that Ukrainian drones used Estonian airspace to strike the ports.
➡️ Judging by the documents, the Russians were tracking the drones' movements exclusively through Russian territory. This is worth noting, as Russia is trying to intimidate our partners while taking advantage of the current situation.
UNIAN Media.
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DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN — PAM BONDI KNOWS!!!
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS & I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared 🔥🔥🔥
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@KrackingE @MartinSch0815 @ForeignAffairs @KofmanMichael Sorry you lost me at the breakaway region...
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Roksolana@lana_s2022
Donetsk, 2014. The Donbas never wanted to be russian
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@Nyplodder @MartinSch0815 @ForeignAffairs @KofmanMichael BENOIT PARÉ has nothing to do with this guy. But you'd rather deflect than deal with unsavory facts of course, being brainless and incapable of critical thinking as you obviously are. amazon.com/What-Saw-Ukrai…
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The war in Ukraine “is not, and was never, simply about land,” writes @KofmanMichael. “Moscow aims to impose its will on Ukraine and destroy it as an independent state with a distinct national identity.”
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@KrackingE @MartinSch0815 @ForeignAffairs @KofmanMichael Why do Russians lie so much and think you can get away with it??
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@Nyplodder @MartinSch0815 @ForeignAffairs @KofmanMichael AFU caused 3 times more civilian death in Donbass than their opponents. This has been documented and revealed by a former French OSCE observer stationed there in 2015-2022. But you haven't heard about it because Ukraine forced OSCE to suppress these facts x.com/KrackingE/stat…
Ladidadada@KrackingE
Это увесистый труд, почти 800 страниц. В многочисленных интервью, которые Бенуа Парэ дал французским радио и медиа, он вкратце рассказал самое важное: Украина нарушала перемирие на Донбассе в пропорции 75% к 25%, что также совпадает с динамикой гражданских жертв (72% против 28%).
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@KrackingE @MartinSch0815 @ForeignAffairs @KofmanMichael That is just normal Russian lies, even this Russian admits the lie
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WarTranslated@wartranslated
Prigozhin released today a new interview going over the current state of affairs as well as looking back at the events preceding the start of the "SMO". In this first bit, he explains that the Donbas was plundered by Russians since 2014 and the 2022 war began for reasons very different from those advertised to the public.
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@Nyplodder @MartinSch0815 @ForeignAffairs @KofmanMichael Kiev has been doing this to Donbass breakaway regions since 2015, you weren't around to notice? Do you want pictures of dead children of Donetsk killed by Ukrainian bombs? Suppressing water supply to breakaway regions was all dandy & fine by you? Selective memory.
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