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Sarah Merrick @sarahspeaks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

On Sunday my tiny bits of 2 wind farms generated nearly twice as much power as I used. And saved me £1.22 off my electricity bill to boot! 💚

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Sarah Merrick @sarahspeaks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I learnt that in the UK home solar is WAY more common in rural areas than in cities and major towns. I even made a cool map of it. North Westminster has the lowest (200) and South Cambridge has the most (7700). 30x as many!

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Sarah Merrick @sarahspeaks.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Me and (most of) my mates got Glastonbury tickets. Feeling very happy. My daughter wasn’t so lucky, but she can work there, I’m too old for all that malarkey.

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Sarah Merrick @sarahspeaks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

UK Parliament wants to know what's needed to really scale community energy. I will be sharing my thoughts. Ripple's community energy model funded a £42m project last year, that's nearly double the entire rest of the sector (£24m) put together. Scale matters. www.thenews.coop/mps-launch-c...

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MPs launch call for evidence on ways to grow community energy sector

The UK’s Energy Security and Net Zero Committee has issued a call for evidence on community energy as MPs look for ways to grow the sector

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Sarah Merrick @sarahspeaks.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

My use of twitter has fallen loads in recent months. And I deleted Facebook off my phone ages ago. I’ve actually enjoyed easing off social media tbh and am now a bit wary of getting into another platform.

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Sarah Merrick @sarahspeaks.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

If you’re trying to get your head around how marginal pricing for electricity works - check out this fab video from Simon Clark (plus there’s a bit on Ripple Energy towards the end) 💚 youtu.be/IEnFmrgEbWo?...

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How Britain broke its electrical grid (and how to fix it)

YouTube video by Simon Clark

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Sarah Merrick @sarahspeaks.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

I’ve not really worked on solar before so visiting Derril Water solar park mid-construction today was a joy. Row upon row of posts waiting for the racking and then eventually the panels. It’ll be 42MW, 75,000 panels over 175 acres. Owned by nearly 10,000 people.

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