By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026The fact that HMG is going to tell your facade-obsessed neighbors to fuck off all the way into the sun so that you can hang solar panels off your balcony is nothing short of a *miracle*. Comrade Putin's contribution to oil-soaked Britain's energy transition can't be overstated. 26/ 211414
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026Thanks to "free market" policies sending energy prices soaring after the Ukraine invasion, Brits installed so much solar (*despite* the impediments) that now the government is *begging* us to use *more* energy this summer. 27/ 1636
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/04/2026The grid just can't absorb all those lovely free electrons: www.theguardian.com/environment/... The UK is on a glide-path to adopting the Australian plan. Australia *also* benefited from Trump I's solar embargo, receiving a ton of cheap solar that would otherwise have ended up in America. 28/theguardian.comGreat Britain households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soarIncentives to absorb surplus wind and solar energy could help balance the grid and lower bills 1595