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Ellie Radcliffe

@ellieradcliffe.bsky.social
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Head of Policy and Research @powertochange.org.uk - former co-operator and community wealth builder. About growing power ⚡ and plants 🌱 (she/her) All views my own.

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Power to Change @powertochange.org.uk · 10/02/2026
🧵🌞 It’s a huge day for community energy. Our statement on the Local Power Plan: "We're delighted to see the long-awaited Local Power Plan launch. The Plan’s landmark commitment of £1bn to support 1000+ local & community energy projects has the potential to drive community ownership like never before
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Local Power Plan
The Local Power Plan ensures that communities directly benefit from the energy they help to produce.
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
It was great to get the chance to speak across thirteen regional BBC radio shows on Monday about the spending review and what it means for the world of housing and energy!🧵 #spendingreview #warmhomesplan #retrofit #netzero
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I wish I wasn't able to say "I saw this coming", but... So so much to take from our work at Carbon Co-op and previous experience at CLES re: the need for people to be involved in shaping the energy system to avoid this type of clash. 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Battle lines drawn over 'monstrous' pylons and solar farm 'wastelands'
Are solar panel fields and giant pylons the price of energy decarbonisation by 2030? - Panorama investigates.
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National Energy Action @nea.org.uk · 29/01/2025
Our first panel of our the day was a fascinating discussion of the challenges in encouraging households to engage with retrofit. Thanks so much to Alastair Mumford, Eleanor Radcliffe, David Farmer and Colin Timmins. #FuelPovertyConf
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Great to speak about our work at the @nea-ukcharity.bsky.social Conference today in Liverpool alongside other brilliant panellists. An excellent event and lots of brilliant conversations!
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National Energy Action @nea.org.uk · 29/01/2025
Eleanor Radcliffe, Project Manager at @carbon.coop stresses the importance of people-centred approaches to retrofit schemes. Their Retrofit for All project includes a co-creation phase where the pain points for households are identified. #FuelPovertyConf
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I’ve got a brand new @nestauk.bsky.social blog up. Should we try splitting the heat pump journey into two stages, with two different grants: one to get “heat pump ready”, one to fit the actual heat pump? www.nesta.org.uk/blog/getting...
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Getting a heat pump should be a small step not a giant leap
A "heat pump ready" service for homes could smooth the transition to clean heat
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Fraser Stewart @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“Community energy is a nice-to-have for leafy middle class villages!” I hear you cry. Once upon a time maybe, but not today. Community energy groups do immense work for a just transition. In this blog, I outline the opportunity and how it can be unlocked at scale: www.regen.co.uk/community-en...
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Community energy for a just transition: breaking the stereotype - Regen
Regen was commissioned by the National Energy System OperaRegen has sent a letter to the Secretary of State to ask about the ‘needed’ status of local and community energy in the government’s soon-to-b...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Shell is doubling down on new oil and gas. This JV involves the extraction and sale of resources that are incompatible with 1.5C, which the market doesn't need, and which won't make UK energy any cheaper or more secure These companies need regulating to extinction www.ft.com/content/f6b0...
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Shell and Equinor to combine UK offshore oil and gas assets
Companies say combination will play crucial role in securing energy supply for country
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The BREAK—DOWN @the-breakdown.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"Legalising & moralising nature are not enough to resolve the accelerating climate, biodiversity & environmental crises of the present ... a social answer [is required]." @cominsitu.bsky.social on socialising nature. 🔗⬇️ break-down.org/post/sociali...
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Socialising Nature
How we can live together without exploiting each other? This is the work of socialising nature.
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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Don't mistake deindustrialisation for emissions reduction. This chart tells a huge story of our times: we closed down our coal mines, steelworks and factories only to import products from abroad as well. We're still consuming the C02 even if we aren't producing it.
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great to be on REGEN's session on shared ownership for a fast and fair transition hearing from @fraserjfstewart.bsky.social, @bankfieldbecky.bsky.social et al! A few thoughts... 🧵
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Great new series from @gndmedia.bsky.social, looking forward to giving it a listen!
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Pete Sikora @petesikora.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Inject this into my veins. 😀 NYC Local Law 97 => energy efficiency investments => jobs + utility bill savings + pollution reductions. www.habitatmag.com/Publication-...
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NYC's Local Law 97 prompts co-op and condo boards to install electric heat pumps
Co-op and condo boards are installing electric heat pumps to reduce carbon emissions. VRF heat recovery units save money and energy.
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I'd be super interested to know whether, given GB Energy has been pitched as a UK Vattenfall or Ørsted, whether (given I've been working on PPPs around energy transition) it could act as a public sector JV partner to support the delivery of energy transition at the local level? Thoughts, views plz 🧵
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Housing movement 🤝 Climate movement But we need more links between the two. Advancing an energy transition which prioritises energy justice also means housing justice. Better quality, warmer homes = better for the climate, our health and our pockets. We need more, better, affordable homes.
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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We can’t understand the geography of capitalism in our present moment without seeing how these old industries overlap with the new. "Two Towns" features an interactive map showing how ex-industrial towns were not “left behind” but actively made into havens for low-paid work.
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Really great to see this, but when I hear people say "we need to take communities with us" what we need to see is serious plans to hand assets and/or the financial benefits generated by the energy transition into the hands of communities and the public. www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdee...
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GB Energy boss says clean power must 'show benefit' to local groups
The Aberdeen-headquartered firm's policymakers must also "take communities with us", said Jurgen Maier who was recently appointed chairman of the new publicly-owned company.
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GND Media @gndmedia.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What makes the just transition for energy actually just? Full episode can be found at gndmedia.co.uk
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Never enough time to write a blog on these thoughts, but I'd love to know who, beyond the brilliant thinkers at @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @futureeconscot.bsky.social, is actively working on shifting our energy system into more public/community hands? The thinking is there, we need more doing.
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Ellie Radcliffe @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Looking forward to joining other commissioners from the Mcr Social Housing Commission at the House of Lords today! Bringing the conversation around retrofit and social housing to the table almost 6 months into the new job at Carbon Co-op 🧵
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