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Sam Maclaine

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I post Pro the environment and Renewable energy. I comment on whatever I like, hopefully being polite and occasionally amusing. I block anyone who doesn't allow responses 🙂

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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
And it's not finished yet 🙂 www.edie.net/2025-officia...
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2025 officially a record year for UK solar power generation - edie
The amount of UK power generated by solar this year has surpassed previous records by some margin, according to official new figures.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Another new offshore wind farm approved (It's actually 1.1GW) 🙂 renews.biz/106042/break...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
But of overseas news 🙂 renews.biz/105940/irish...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Study into £500m Dorset wind turbine plant gets green light
The £1.5m study will look at whether the site at Portland is suitable for a wind turbine manufacturing.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Another record for UK wind output. Nicely coordinating with pretty high demand but still only 47% of the total. More to come though 🙂 www.edie.net/uk-soars-pas...
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UK soars past wind power generation record for second time in two months - edie
Great Britain’s maximum wind generation record was broken on Friday, 5 December, the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has confirmed.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Not a bad 25 years 🙂 eciu.net/media/press-...
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Offshore wind has cut UK’s spending on imported fuels by at least…
Analysis on 25th anniversary of commissioning of UK’s first offshore wind farm finds the technology is now main source of electricity from North Sea, overtaking gas
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Were going to need a bigger boat (grid) 🙂 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/04/o...
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Ofgem approves GBP 10.3 billion investment in UK transmission grid
UK energy regulator green-lights transmission network operator budgets for five-year period. Initial budget of GBP 10.3 billion ($13.7 billion) approved with an upper-bound estimate of GBP 70 billion ...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Sometimes described as 'The UK's Orsted', it looks like Labour's 'Great British Energy' has a significant intent by 2030 to get around 15GW of new generation in place 🤔 share.google/s8nPy58CNyR2...
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Accelerating the UK’s clean energy future | Great British Energy
4 December 2025 Read the full Strategic Plan hereRead the accessible document here (HTML)
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets DCO decision
The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets DCO application has today been granted development consent by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/27/u...
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UK adds 1.9 GW of solar in 12 months
Latest government figures record 20.7 GW deployed PV capacity at the end of October 2025, up 10.4% in a 12-month period. Surge in contracts for difference (CfD) supported connections recorded in 2025 ...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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All 277 Monopile Foundations Installed at 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm
Seaway7 has installed the last of the total of 277 transition pieces (TPs) on Dogger Bank Wind Farm, the 3.6 GW offshore wind project in the UK North Sea, marking the completion of all foundation inst...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/13/r...
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Record year for UK rooftop solar installations
Previous record from 2011 broken in early November as number of certified solar installations surpasses 203,125 in 2025. New-build properties driving growth with further gains expected when Future Hom...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
www.offshorewind.biz/2025/11/20/g...
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Great British Energy Acquires Stake in Scottish Floating Wind Project
Pentland Floating Offshore Wind Farm, a Scottish project developed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has secured investment from Great British Energy, National Wealth Fund and Scottish Nati...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
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New record for wind-powered electricity in Britain
The National Energy System Operator (Neso) has predicted Britain could hit another milestone in the months ahead by running the grid for a period entirely with zero carbon power, renewables and nuclea...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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SSE to invest £33bn in upgrading Scotland's electricity grid - BBC News
The company plans to spend two-thirds of that to upgrade wiring and increase high-voltage grid capacity to get power from the north to customers in the south.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Phase A - already generating as we speak 🤔 www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/dog...
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World's largest offshore windfarm off Yorkshire coast to boost economy by £6.1bn
The Dogger Bank Wind Farm will boost the UK economy by £6.1 billion during its lifetime and support thousands of British jobs over the next three decades, an independent report has found.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Just look at the size of this thing. 🙂 Second Hornsea 3 Substation Topside En Route to Europe | Offshore Wind share.google/JDxtNgoft0Xj...
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Second Hornsea 3 Substation Topside En Route to Europe
Aibel has completed the second offshore converter station topside for the Hornsea 3 offshore wind project at its yard in Thailand. The substation, Hornsea 3 Link 2, has started its journey to Europe, ...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Nice to see the UK up with other World leaders in the deployment of Battery storage working with Renewables 🙂
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Chinese firm planning £1.5bn turbine plant in Scotland - BBC News
Ming Yang says up to 1,500 jobs could be created if plans for the facility at Ardersier go ahead.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
How we would have had much higher electricity prices in 2024 without the increase in UK wind generation 🙂 eciu.net/analysis/rep...
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Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…
Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 09/10/2025
In 2021, clean power covered Britain’s electricity demand for just 2.5 hours. In 2025, it’s already 87 hours. Still only 1.3% of the year – but the direction of travel is clear. Dr Simon Evans reports
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Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far
Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
'Super batteries': Ofgem advances plans for new wave of Long Duration Energy Storage projects | BusinessGreen News share.google/uSksASt4Xlga...
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'Super batteries': Ofgem advances plans for new wave of Long Duration Energy Storage projects
Regulator confirms selection of over 75 projects for new 'cap and floor' energy storage support scheme
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🙂
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Interesting how low Electricity Demand per capita is in the UK. Guess that is related to us using gas for heating ? 🤔
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Global investment in electricity generation from wind almost doubles in 10 years. And Solar - Wow 🤔
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Some interesting details in the UK massive Dogger Bank wind farm 🤔 www.ecoticias.com/en/3-6-gw-cl...
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3.6 GW climbs out of the sea — The offshore colossus adding turbines by the week
3,6 GW to climb out of the sea as per the first three stages of the Dogger Bank project that considers offshore power generation throughout the U.K.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Now we just need the whizzy bits 😂
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Europe's wind output closely tracked as solar peak passes
Europe's wind turbines are set to take over from solar panels as the main driver of clean electricity supply growth for the rest of 2025, as the end of the Northern Hemisphere summer brings less sunlight but windier conditions at turbine level.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
'We are going to need a bigger boat (battery)' 🙂 share.google/FQ2RjGFalJRD...
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The $1bn battery: record-sized plant will store North Sea wind power
Project will site huge BESS deployment inland from North Sea coast as key plank of UK green power plans
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Don't often post about Nuclear but just to remember how lots of new Renewables by 2030 are needed just to replace the UK's incredibly creaky old Nuclear Power stations 🤔 www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/edfs-...
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EDF’s Heysham 1 and Hartlepool nuclear plants to operate for further 12 months | New Civil Engineer
The power plants are both advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs), and EDF says its ambition is “to continue making zero-carbon electricity at its four
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Bit over the top to say the UK is relying on flywheels 🙂 but they are part of the solution in a fossil free grid 🤔 share.google/3Qk95P1uPHJe...
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Britain's energy grid bets on flywheels to keep the lights on
Britain's energy operator is betting on an age-old technology to future-proof its grid, as the power plants that traditionally helped stabilise it are closed and replaced by renewable energy systems.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
www.energyvoice.com/renewables-e...
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UK approves 1.5 GW Morgan offshore wind farm in Irish Sea
UK energy secretary Ed Miliband has approved the 1.5 GW Morgan project from JERA Nex BP and EnBW off the coast of north west England.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The controversial new Electricity Pylon link between new wind farms off the UK coast and East Anglia/London now has it's final route decided 🤔 share.google/DEc2JM6AQghF...
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National Grid submits its Norfolk to Essex pylon grid application
It includes 114 miles (183 km) of pylons carrying "home-grown energy" between Norwich and Tilbury.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
www.energylivenews.com/2025/08/26/c...
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Construction begins on giant onshore wind farm in Scotland  - Energy Live News
The Sanquhar II Community Wind Farm, which will be the fourth largest in the UK once completed, was paused in 2023 due to tax decisions by the previous UK Government
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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SSE, Equinor Move Forward with 1.5 GW Dogger Bank D Project
SSE and Equinor have finalised a seabed lease with the Crown Estate to progress Dogger Bank D, the proposed fourth phase of the world’s largest offshore wind farm, the 3.6 GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm, cu...
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
There is a lot of talk about getting power from northern Scottish wind farms to England. But also southern Scotland will benefit enormously from having access 🤔 Scottish Power awards £5.4bn in transmission and substation works across two frameworks | Construction News share.google/1BYPjpMmLVVx...
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Scottish Power awards £5.4bn in transmission and substation works across two frameworks
Scottish Power Transmission has awarded two strategic frameworks worth a combined £5.4bn for works to expand its onshore electricity infrastructure across
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
UK's 'Hornsea 3' 2.9GW Offshore Wind Farm from Ofsted - construction underway 🙂 share.google/Q7pxQZg56WUb...
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Haizea Rolls Out First Monopile for Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 Offshore Wind Farm
Spain's Haizea Wind Group has rolled out the first monopile for Ørsted’s 2.9 GW Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm in the UK.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
They are getting bigger 🙂 www.aol.com/one-worlds-l...
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One of world's largest offshore wind farms approved
Up to 307 turbines will be constructed in the project at Berwick Bank
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I liked this description from WindEnergyIreland as why more wind means lower wholesale electricity prices 🤔
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
This is a bit of a long read but lots of stuff in here about grid synchronisation 🙂 spectrum.ieee.org/grid-scale-b...
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Grid-Scale Battery Stabilizes Scottish Power Supply
Grid-scale batteries in Scotland are stabilizing power supply with advanced grid-forming inverters.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
www.energy-reporters.com/transmission...
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“They’re Wiring Europe Together Under the Sea”: UK-Germany Power Cable Sparks Energy Revolution as NeuConnect Promises Green Electricity and 13 Million Tons Fewer Emissions
IN A NUTSHELL 🔌 The NeuConnect project establishes the first direct energy connection between the UK and Germany. 🚢 A massive cable-laying vessel is deploying 87 miles of cables beneath the North Sea....
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
The target for the next round 'AR7' of the UK offshore wind auction is 6GW. Results around the end of the year 🤔
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I seem to have missed this one so a bit late. From July 🙂 share.google/2VFKkszE4C12...
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British and French solar generation hit new records
UK solar generation records have continued to tumble this year, with a new record of 14GW being set this week
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
www.businessgreen.com/news/4517217...
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Santander and Natwest join £220m fundraise to supercharge UK battery infrastructure
Pulse Clean Energy secures funding from six international banks to build more than 700MWh of battery storage infrastructure
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Solar going big time 🙂 ember-energy.org/latest-updat...
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Solar is EU’s biggest power source for the first time ever in June 2025 | Ember
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Renewables will be the World's top generator of power by 2026, or even maybe 2025, overtaking coal for the first time ever 🤔
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Berwick Bank offshore wind farm project approved for Firth of Forth - BBC News share.google/BsARywNHoPkB...
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Berwick Bank offshore wind farm project approved for Firth of Forth - BBC News
Up to 307 turbines will be constructed in the project at Berwick Bank in the Firth of Forth.
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Sam Maclaine @sammaclaine.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Scotland's 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Fully Operational | Offshore Wind share.google/zpzSubspD3Hm...
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Scotland's 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe Offshore Wind Farm Fully Operational
The 450 MW Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm has become fully operational, with Scotland's First Minister John Swinney visiting Eyemouth on 24 July to mark the launch of the country's newest o...
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ECIU @eciu.net · 27/07/2025
CfD renewables auction (AR7) 𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥: we don't yet where price will settle AR7 needs to secure at least 8.4GW of offshore wind, acc experts This extra UK power gen would ⬇️ gas imports over 3️⃣❎ as much as any new North Sea licences eciu.net/media/press...
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