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#Renewables

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Birdlife soars on nature-friendly #solar farms eastangliabylines.co.uk/enviro

Solar farm management influences breeding #bird responses in an arable-dominated landscape tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

"hectare for hectare – solar farms situated in agriculturally dominated East Anglia contained a greater number of bird species and overall number of individuals than surrounding arable land."

Community ownership - protecting Scotland’s renewables from ‘harvesting’ by outside interests

A good start - or in 50 years a new variant on the McCrone report will be revealed - too late for us.

thenational.scot/news/24959692

archive.today/2025.02.25-06594

The McCrone report - for those who are not aware; a second rush for Wasteminster to grab and ship electricity south at a discount in underway.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCrone_

China Supercharges Clean Energy

[Read on Ethical Revolution]

Latest research by The Carbon Brief has shown that China’s clean-energy sectors – renewables, electric vehicles and batteries – drove a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product growth in 2024. Worth a whopping $1.9 trillion, the clean energy sectors have overtaken real-estate sales in value. This is expected to rise even further in 2025.

[Via Ethical Revolution]

Ethical Revolution · China Supercharges Clean Energy - Ethical Revolution
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Replied to Kudra :maybe_verified:

@kudra
They said they had too much power in the middle of the day
because of solar panels

Not one of them even suggest moving the offpeak hot water to the middle of the day
already exists and is a form of storage?

A battery isn't any benefit to a renter
cheaper power to heat the water at lunchtime
offpeak power is almost half my bill
would be a greater benefit to renters

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Good to hear on the Environment Variables podcast with @mrchrisadams that there are organisations out there like Energy Tag who are pushing to fix our broken energy system.

podverse.fm/episode/6BaK6wHIb (via @podverse)

Essentially the existing crooked accounting system allows energy companies to trade certificates so they can say to their consumers that their energy comes from renewable sources when the reality is they don’t and physically cannot.

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PodverseHow to Tell When Energy is Green with Killian Daly - Environment VariablesIn this episode, host Chris Adams is joined by Killian Daly, Executive Director of EnergyTag, to explore the complexities of green energy tracking and carbon accounting. They discuss the challenges of accurately measuring and claiming green energy use, including the flaws in current carbon accounting methods and how EnergyTag is working to improve transparency through time-based and location-based energy tracking. Killian shares insights from his experience managing large-scale energy procurement and highlights the growing adoption of 24/7 clean energy practices by major tech companies and policymakers. They also discuss the impact of green energy policies on industries like hydrogen production and data centers, emphasizing the need for accurate, accountable energy sourcing and we find out just how tubular Ireland can actually be!Learn more about our people:Chris Adams: LinkedIn | GitHub | WebsiteKillian Daly: LinkedIn | WebsiteFind out more about the GSF:The Green Software Foundation Website Sign up to the Green Software Foundation NewsletterResources:GHG Protocol [09:15]Environment Variables Podcast | Ep 82 Electricity Maps w/ Oliver Corradi [32:22]Masdar Sustainable City [58:28]If you enjoyed this episode then please either:Follow, rate, and review on Apple PodcastsFollow and rate on SpotifyWatch our videos on The Green Software Foundation YouTube Channel!Connect with us on Twitter, Github and LinkedIn!TRANSCRIPT BELOW:Killian Daly: We need to think about this kind of properly and do the accounting correctly.And unfortunately, we don't do the accounting very well today. Chris Adams: Hello, and welcome to Environment Variables, brought to you by the Green Software Foundation. In each episode, we discuss the latest news and events surrounding green software. On our show, you can expect candid conversations with top experts in their field who have a passion for how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of software.I'm your host, Chris Adams. Hello, and welcome to another edition of Environment Variables, where we bring you the latest news and updates from the world of sustainable software development. I'm your host, Chris Adams. When we write software, there are some things we can control directly. For example, we might be able to code in a tight loop ourselves, or design a system that scales to zero when it's not in use.And if we're buying from a cloud vendor, like many of us do now, we're often buying digital resources, like gigabytes of RAM and disk, or maybe virtual CPUs, rather than physical servers. It's a little bit less