Andrew Bain

@Unplugnukes @KathrynPorter26 A month? The CATL-HyperStrong 60 GWh could power 3.6 Million Homes for 15 Hours

@andybain2 @KathrynPorter26 We build more and bigger storage ststems. Here’s a sodium battery system that can keep those homes powered for a month. electrek.co/2026/04/27/cat…

A reminder of what wind power actually looks like... We have 32 GW installed, hence the size of the scale on the y-axis Over the weekend output fell to 0.6 GW - this happened overnight when demand was low but when solar output was zero - so functionally we had no wind or solar on the grid The length of the lull when wind was below 3.2 GW (a tenth of the installed amount) was far longer than any battery can bridge) THIS is why wind and solar do not provide energy security. In the winter periods of zero solar are longer and coincide with times of peak demand, not just for the day but for the year

@PatBradyvi @malonebarry What utter nonsense. Intimidating a customer is gross misconduct and deserves instant dismissal

@malonebarry In Europe this would be a slam dunk unfair dismissal. No fair process, disproportionate sanction etc.

In which a wealthy man gleefully boasts about getting a waiter fired.

@Unplugnukes @KathrynPorter26 The Edwards & Sanborn Solar and Energy Storage project in California is among the largest in the world. It has a capacity of approximately 3.3 gigawatt-hours (GWh), capable of powering roughly 110,000 homes for a day. Who loses out and what happens on day 2?

@KathrynPorter26 Yet. We just have to increase wind & sun storage and capacity and it will.

@Digger_forum I think you are referring to Lance Armstrong only it wasn’t comically sad. It was an absolute disgrace

The greatest fraud cycling has ever seen. It’s comically sad.

@renewablesmiffy @GrumpyPete But did they have to do it by charging it all to the consumer? Other nations fund green energy with taxes, but the UK passes these costs to consumers (up till now). To rub salt in the wound we have the ridiculous linkage to the price of gas

@GrumpyPete @andybain2 CfD is not subsidy What generation do you plan to build in the UK without policy support?

Renewables pushed wholesale prices to very low and even negative prices during the week. The bulk of solar and wind CfD is charging £60-90/MWh. Gas is operating at £70-110/MWh I can see why he’s now turning off replies!

@GrumpyPete @renewablesmiffy Partly, but also because of the Marginal Pricing System: Even if 90% of electricity comes from cheap renewables, if the final 10% needed to meet demand comes from a gas power plant, that gas plant sets the price for all the electricity used in that period.

@renewablesmiffy Why is our electricity so expensive then? Is ir the green subsidies

@paullewismoney Yet again you display an astonishing lack of awareness. I thought you’d peaked with your take on VAT registration for small businesses but no, you’ve even surpassed that. You do remember Covid don’t you? Furlough ring a bell?

Here is how it grew under Mel

@DarrylMcGarvey @100kDiary Agreed it doesn’t matter in the end but lease repayments are based on the depreciation only of the vehicle so the repayments will be less than a PCP which will include interest

I think it's an odd thing to do to refer to people as financially illiterate while confusing a lease with a PCP. The joy of a lease is it's typically fully managed, maintenance etc, and depreciation doesn't matter as it's someone else's issue. A PCP does, of course, have a depreciation element, hence the guaranteed MFV.

Unpopular opinion: Leasing a brand new car is the most financially illiterate thing normalised in the UK. You're paying £500/month for something that loses 40% of its value by the time you hand it back. Then you sign up for another one. A £5,000 used car does the exact same job. Gets you from A to B. Doesn't care about your ego. The difference over 10 years? Roughly £60k. Your car isn't a flex. It's a monthly donation to a dealership. Agree or disagree? 👇

@Ste1010208 @husseinhhakim @100kDiary True but by not owning a leased car this means you don’t have to worry about the hassle of selling it on, or how much it has depreciated in the time you’ve been driving it.

@husseinhhakim @100kDiary Someone is paying for the depreciation. Hint: it's you.

@JamesMelville So why didn’t she press him for a decision on the Rosebank and Jackdaw oilfields

Here’s Ed Miliband getting rather hot under the collar when challenged by Sophie Ridge on North Sea oil and gas drilling.

@MarieBell626390 @TorstenBell @TiceRichard @Gabriel_Pogrund Tax avoidance, whilst still complying with tax legislation, is legal. For example, introducing your spouse into a business partnership to reduce tax. However, deliberately failing to pay tax which is legally due is not acceptable tax avoidance

@andybain2 @TorstenBell @TiceRichard @Gabriel_Pogrund Tax avoidance isnt illegal, Tax evasion is..

In case you’re confused - the £100k of tax @TiceRichard failed to pay here is totally different to the - £92k of tax not properly withheld on dividends - the £600k side-stepped via highly aggressive tax avoidance Industrial scale grifting revealed by @Gabriel_Pogrund

@MarieBell626390 @TorstenBell @TiceRichard @Gabriel_Pogrund He did need to, like any other person or entity which is taxable on income. Very stupid too considering that the information is publicly available

@TorstenBell @TiceRichard @Gabriel_Pogrund Question Torsten, do you pay more tax than you need to? Who in their right mind would, we're taxed to death and beyond anyway

@leegee010 @TorstenBell @TiceRichard @Gabriel_Pogrund Only it wasn’t legal. It’s a bit like a tradesman sending in his tax return showing £50k profit but “forgetting” to pay the tax. HMRC would be all over that in a jiffy but complex tax structures like this are less obvious

@TorstenBell @TiceRichard @Gabriel_Pogrund Tax obsessed idiots… not content with driving the country under through a record high tax burden, you cunts can’t sleep at night when someone LEGALLY avoids more paying tax. Well done Richard, I and all the other sensible people would have done the same.

@DanNeidle Presumably a claim against the accountant’s PII to cover the interest and penalties?

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

@bea_johanssen @afneil “Ministers are not informed of any findings other than the final outcome”. Isn’t this saying they weren’t told about the failed security vetting but that the final outcome (albeit an overrule) was that he had passed so that’s all they were told???

@afneil The letter states that they were informed.

Except that in this case ministers were NOT informed that Mandelson had failed his security vetting. Indeed, Starmer and others were claiming the opposite.

@benjaminbutter You sound like a bitter, spiteful little schoolgirl on her way to the sweet shop who has just heard from a grinning little schoolboy, with a mouthful of sweets, that they are about to run out of jelly babies.

Every serious person knows the triple lock is impossible to sustain and setting us on course for a nearly £200bn a year bill. And yet any suggestion of reality to the P&O cruise brigade unleashed entitled fury. Someone needs to stand up to these retirement communists.

@JonnyRoot_ I speak from the home of golf and never a word was said against Jack, Tiger or any other American who came over here and won the Open. We applauded their success.Rory is an all time great. Give him credit for that and stop searching for reasons to diminish it

I guess we’ll have to take Kim’s word for it, though I’m still skeptical EVERY PLAYER would get the same access as Rory McIlroy Here’s the problem though: • Without reform, some players will get more practice & familiarity. I’d argue there should be a set number the month leading up to the tournament, regardless of whether they’re a champion or not • This encourages more players to skip tournaments prior to The Masters, creating a load management-type issue in golf that’ll devalue those tournaments to broadcast partners, patrons, & sponsors. Picking up what I’m putting down?

@JonnyRoot_ Were you whining about Tiger only competing in 15-20 tournaments so he could devote more time to Majors? Bet you were making significant contributions to Kleenex’s profits after the Ryder Cup too. Grow up

A lot of the conversation around Rory McIlroy's "unfair advantage", especially from golf media, is completely missing the point... There's no reason there shouldn't be a cap on the amount of times golfers can play Augusta the month prior to The Masters, whether they're past champs or not. This ensures there isn't a blatant competitive disparity. Yes, golfers that qualify for the tournament can access the course the month prior, but everyone can't skip three straight tournaments* & fly private whenever they want to Augusta. *Again, this encourages top golfers to skip tournaments, devaluing those tournaments for broadcast partners, patrons, & sponsors. For example, if the cap is 3-4 practice rounds at Augusta the month prior to the tournament, consider them like timeouts. Use them or lose them. Problem solved. Debate over. Past champions still get their well-deserved perks, but they don't get a blatant unfair advantage.

@InControl_Inc @Blutman27 Here’s what a fellow pro said (Michael Kim) “It is not unfair or an advantage people. It’s irrelevant to the result … If I wanted to match the number of the rounds at Augusta that Rory got, I easily could have done that.”

@andybain2 @Blutman27 Tiger may not have won 5 green jackets if he didn’t have a competitive advantage either. They are one and the same. Thank you for making my point.

@InControl_Inc @Blutman27 At his peak,Tiger practiced at Augusta much more than any other player. Are you saying he wasn’t the best? As Gary Player once said, the harder I practiced the luckier I got

@andybain2 @Blutman27 The best player that needed three weeks off to practice each day at Augusta? The player with the most practice at Augusta the last month won, not the best player.