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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜

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Head of Nesta Cymru | Music in Cardiff | Bokononist | Tweets are my online persona’s views

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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
No one ever talks about how on the eighth day of Christmas your true love presumably also gives you eight cows.
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Sara Elias @saraelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We're looking forward to attending the @plaidcymru.bsky.social Conference next week, and to having the chance to share our work and ideas. If you’re at the conference, do come and say hello!
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Music has so much to teach us about innovation and - by extension - how to do social change.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Every single UX upgrade to Google Maps over the past few years has made it slightly worse. It’s actually quite impressive.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Another role at Nesta Cymru is live now. My old job (!) looking after our work on decarbonising homes. www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/mission... Happy to chat to interested applicants.
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Mission Manager (Wales), A Sustainable Future
We are recruiting for a Mission Manager, A Sustainable Future (Wales)
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Sara Elias @saraelias.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
👋 @andyregancdf.bsky.social, Jono and I will be in Llandudno for the Welsh Labour conference next week. Fancy a chat? 🌞 We like to chat about how to: 🍎 reduce obesity at pop. level ⚡ speed-up home decarb 👶 use data in the early years 💡 'do' policy differently! Innovation tools and techniques
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I’ll do you a deal, internet… I’ll buy one of those small metal wallets that block RFIDs or whatever if you promise I will then never see an advert for one ever again.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Join the Nesta Cymru team! Mission Manager (A Fairer Start, Wales) Help us develop innovative, scaleable solutions to the factors that prevent children from disadvantaged backgrounds from thriving. www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/mission...
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Mission Manager (Wales), A Fairer Start
We are recruiting for a Mission Manager, A Fairer Start (Wales)
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Join the Nesta Cymru team! Mission Manager (A Fairer Start, Wales) Help us develop innovative, scaleable solutions to the factors that prevent children from disadvantaged backgrounds from thriving. www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/mission...
nesta.org.uk
Mission Manager (Wales), A Fairer Start
We are recruiting for a Mission Manager, A Fairer Start (Wales)
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My colleague @martinakavan.bsky.social has written a blog setting out Nesta's view on how a new DESNZ Fuel Poverty strategy can better address energy bills AND decarbonisation. www.nesta.org.uk/blog/we-need... Focus is UK policy, but many ideas that the next Welsh Government could adopt too.
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We need cheaper electricity to unlock a more effective fuel poverty strategy
As fuel poverty rates remain stubbornly high, we call for a stronger role for low-carbon heat, cheaper electricity through levy reform and a move away from deep retrofits in hard-to-treat homes
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Watching Conclave. Someone should tell them about Slido.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Had to explain to my 6yo what a sun tan was today. #wales
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A bit of news.... I’m pleased to say that for the next few months I will be taking on the role of Interim Head of Nesta Cymru, whilst a replacement for the irreplaceable Rob Ashelford is recruited.
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Sharing this late, but @andyregancdf.bsky.social and I wrote a thing about time-of-use electricity tariffs and heat pumps. We have a surprising finding: you can save a LOT of money running a heat pump by using a flexible tariff, even if you don’t use it flexibly www.nesta.org.uk/blog/can-tim...
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Can time-of-use tariffs make heat pumps cheaper to run?
Using heat pumps flexibly could cut your bills by up to £600 annually – without shifting your energy use
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
New Nesta blog... Our HeatFlex trial has convinced us you can use heat pumps flexibly - but can doing so really save money? www.nesta.org.uk/blog/can-tim... with @acjsissons.bsky.social
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Can time-of-use tariffs make heat pumps cheaper to run?
Using heat pumps flexibly could cut your bills by up to £600 annually – without shifting your energy use
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I generally like David Gauke's writing, but this is really poor on energy prices and net zero I'm afraid. Not going to rebut the whole thing, but a couple of quick points... www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Businesses are increasingly vocal about the uncompetitiveness of energy prices. It has long been the case that Europe has higher energy prices than the US because the US has embraced fracking.  President Trump is going to inflict many wounds on the US economy, but his “drill, baby, drill” approach to energy policy will lower the cost for US businesses further.

Even in the European context, our energy costs are high. Industries such as steelmaking and chemicals are increasingly priced out of the UK for this reason. Nor is this just a problem for established industries. Artificial Intelligence requires data centres and data centres require a lot of energy. An ambition to lead the world in AI is incompatible with high energy prices.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The next Welsh Government will preside over a crucial period in Wales' pathway to net zero. We need a dramatic acceleration in the rollout of clean heat - and a focus on how to deliver the current heat pump targets. Read more about Nesta's proposals here: www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
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A plan for Wales’ clean heat future
Nesta calls for all party manifestos to prioritise policies which embrace clean heat and prioritise the people of Wales at the heart of their approach to decarbonisation
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Pinned tweet for the ages.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
What has @nestauk.bsky.social been doing in Wales? As a devolved nation, there is a unique opportunity to develop, test and scale new ideas for social good, finding places where devolution allows us to go further and faster in achieving our aims. Find out more: www.nesta.org.uk/project/wales/
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Nesta Cymru
We work in several ways across Wales to help solve big challenges.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I had to raise an HMRC issue last year. It wasn’t possible to choose a route to an advisor by phone. So I filled in online forms, to which they replied by post. Overall it took around *nine months* to resolve. Is this counted in their waiting times data? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Watchdog accuses HMRC of deliberately ‘degrading’ phone services
Long call waiting times have ‘damaged trust in the tax system’, public accounts committee report says
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
No matter how long one spends in Wales the Mari Llwyd never quite becomes normalised.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
A life spent on Zoom has created unrealistic expectations that in large groups there will only ever be one person speaking at a time.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Overheard in a deli “How much is the smallest panettone?” And now I have that in my head to the tune of “How much is that doggie in the window?”.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
God help us if there’s a war.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Ed from @themooncardiff.bsky.social has put together a lovely compilation of tracks recorded at the venue - proceeds going to the staff crowdfunder. Pre order here: themooncardiff.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...
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Live At The Moon Cardiff, by Various Artists
10 track album
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Is there a term / buzzword phrase that means something like "a situation where a series of individual decisions, which are reasonable / successful in themselves, cumulatively result in net negative outcomes"?
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Katy King @katyking2.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Levies currently account for 11% of a household's energy bill, but they are not allocated evenly. They are 16% of a electricity bill, but only 5.5% of a gas bill. Read Nesta's new analysis of what to do about this>> www.nesta.org.uk/report/cheap...
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Cheaper electricity, fairer bills
Electricity prices are disproportionately higher compared to gas prices
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Oh good, a new era of being **emailed** about all the tweets I haven’t read on both BlueSky and Threads. 👌 #thedarkages
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Mike Fell @mikefsway.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! I'm seeking research, evaluation, case studies on heat pumps in social/public housing - with focus on solutions (service/engagement/policy/technical/etc.) to accelerate uptake + improve tenant experience. Is there anything you recommend I look at? Suggestions and shares appreciated!
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This feels a bit like a bereavement. Keep thinking "...but I was only there on Monday, how can it have shut down?". Liz and the team are absolute heroes for keeping it going over the last seven years. How much more relentless crushing of everything small and beautiful does Cardiff have to suck up?
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
IKR. Just get on with it.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I got ChatGPT to make up a Shakespeare quote on energy demand flexibility for today’s HeatFlex report launch. “Lo, as the tempest bends the bough yet breaks it not, so must man’s will in his uses of power yield and flow, shaping its course to the hour’s demand.” Sadly chickened out of using it.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Twitter started to die when it began the slow drift from funny people occasionally saying something serious to people trying to pass off their latest serious blog post as a ‘thread’.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Watching Lightning Seeds in Cardiff. Are they going to end with Three Lions? In Wales? Place your bets now…
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Anyone know why @octopusenergy.bsky.social seemed to skip a bill in October and have just charged me for 2 months? Hasn’t caused any problems, other than a brief shock at what looked like a very expensive month. Just curious. 🧐
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
We're working @nestauk.bsky.social on how to help people switch to clean heating via neighbourhood schemes. There are many things we need to test, so we've put out today a call for collaboration on three problems we want to explore further www.nesta.org.uk/project-upda...
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Areas of collaboration for coordinated switching
Testing our understanding with partners to build the capacity to deliver a more coordinated transition to low-carbon heat
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
LinkedIn has added a section for those weird short videos like on Facebook. Except it’s full of dreary ‘having a job is lolle’ content instead of the ASMR Japanese omelette cookery content I am here for. 🤷‍♂️
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Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Our upcoming report with the Centre the Net Zero investigates how automating heat pumps can shift demand away from the grid and help the UK get one step closer to a low-carbon future. We're hosting an online event to share our key findings with industry experts. Register to attend: bit.ly/3C7GUnz
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Who wants to hear me talking to Adam Chapman of Heat Geek for 40 minutes about heat flexibility? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlPL... The preview quote is maybe a touch 'I was taken out of context', but this was an enjoyable chat.
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Will demand shifting HEAT, ever be a thing!?
YouTube video by Heat Geek Uninsulated
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Excited to be hosting this event to showcase the results of @nestauk.bsky.social and Centre for Net Zero's collaborative HeatFlex project. Can you shift electricity demand from the peak by automating heat pump controls? Find out at our online event: www.nesta.org.uk/event/heatfl...
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HeatFlex: the untapped potential of automated heat pump flexibility
Hear about how automated heat pumps can accelerate the journey to complete decarbonisation
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
My latest anti-blog post: What can a Mark Twain novel from 1889 teach us about influencing net zero policy? medium.com/doing-things...
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Hank Morgan’s Eclipse
In Mark Twain’s 1889 novel ‘A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s court’ the titular character, Hank Morgan, travels back in time to the…
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
I’ve started something I shall misleadingly describe as ‘a blog about net zero’. ‘Blog’ implies a series of think pieces on a topic. Instead this is likely to become a network of oblique rants, which teases coherence without ever delivering it. Enjoy! medium.com/doing-things...
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Doing Things Is Hard – Medium
Thinking aloud about how to do policy better. Mostly focused on net zero. Bite sized chunks w/hand drawn anti-graphs.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Me: Wonder what the weather will be like? BBC: The weather is moon.
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Andy Regan 🌊🏡🎸☕️🍜 @andyregancdf.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
The next person who tells me gov dot uk is an exemplar of user centric design may regret doing so.
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