#UNITED KINGDOM

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Notting Hill by sparrowinlondon.

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ig credit: chaptersofshau

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"It’s technically possible for the UK to achieve its goal of having a clean power system by 2030, and doing so should reduce electricity bills and bolster the country’s energy security, the grid operator says in a study commissioned by the new Labour government.

The context

The UK recently shut its last coal-fired power plant and aims to slash its use of gas turbines as it seeks to all but eliminate fossil fuels from its electricity mix by the end of the decade.

In 2023, renewables and nuclear accounted for 62% of the country’s electrical output, while fossil fuels held a 38% share. Under the 2030 clean power target, fossil fuels (gas) would be reduced to less than 5% of the mix.

The latest

“The analysis concludes that clean power is a huge challenge but is achievable for Great Britain by 2030,” the National Energy System Operator said in a statement as it published the study.

Overall system costs are unlikely to increase if the target is met, and tariffs could in fact decline as legacy power contracts expire and if the state makes sufficient progress on energy efficiency gains, flexibility mechanisms, improving grid connection processes, and overall policy modernisation.

Significant investments are required in a short amount of time, but they would allow the UK to become a “leader” in new technologies while also reducing the country’s exposure to potential energy price shocks stemming from spikes in international gas prices, as was the case after Russia invaded Ukraine.

NESO’s analysis shows that clean technologies — renewables and nuclear — will be able to produce at least as much power as Great Britain consumes in total in 2030...

“A clean power system for Great Britain will deliver a backbone of home-grown energy that breaks the link between volatile international gas prices; that is secure and affordably powers our homes and buildings; that decarbonises the transport that we take to school and work; that drives the businesses of today and catalyses the innovations of the future.”

Next steps: The government will now consider NESO’s advice as it develops its clean power action plan later this year."

-via The Progress Playbook, November 5, 2024

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Art Nouveau fairy door handles. Late 19th / early 20th century, Warrington, ENGLAND

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Inveresk St, Glasgow.

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Never forget 🙏🏻

Unless he will catch you and eats you, if you don't celebrate happy Monday mandy.

you could televise anything in 1999

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H.M. Armed Schooner Pickle cracking along under full sail, heading home with the glorious news of Trafalgar but tempered by the death of Lord Nelson by Montague Dawson

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dean village waters // edinburgh, uk // july 2017 // ©

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Ophelia (1851) by John Everett Millais. Tate Britain.

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Oxford, England

March 2017

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Have you played SUMMERLAND

By Greg Saunders

In Summerland, players take on the roles of Drifters, characters who travel beneath the Sea of Leaves, the vast supernatural forest that has devastated the works of humanity. They are driven to constantly move on due to a past trauma that while protecting them from the Call, the siren-song of the forest, prohibits them from being accepted in to what's left of society. Instead they must confront their past, resolve their trauma and at last join the remainder of humanity.

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Three young barn owls standing in the stone quatrefoil of Christ Church, Fulmodeston.

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Charles III: Don't paint my hands or face red, I don't want people to think I've got blood on them.

Painter: Of course, your majesty.

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St. Michael's Mount, ENGLAND

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Gibson Park Dr, Belfast.