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People, Place and Energy Research Centre (PPERC) @pperc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Check out Chapter 4 of our edited collection 'Navigating Persistent Energy and Climate Crises: Critical Reflections' by @stefanb23.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social @justcentre.bsky.social @edrc-uk.bsky.social 👉 research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

Chapter 4 Green Energy Jobs as Social Infrastructure by Stefan Bouzarovski. PPERC Edited Collection.

“Providers of energy assistance undertake unseen forms of knowledge brokering and relational work… that ‘builds cities from within’ and drives just energy transformations”

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Jakub Sokolowski @jsokolowski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🎉 Our paper, “Distributional properties of cost allocation rules in multi-family energy retrofits: Evidence from 4 million apartments,” is out in Ecological Economics. 🙏Huge thanks to my coauthor @stefanb23.bsky.social

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People, Place and Energy Research Centre (PPERC) @pperc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our 1st Policy Brief 👉 PUTTING POWER IN ITS PLACE: PPERC’s Local Power Plan Response research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati... @gfearn.bsky.social @stefanb23.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social @giuliamininni.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomseed.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

Putting Power in its Place

People, Place and Energy Research Centre (PPERC) Local Power Plan Response

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Last chance to register for tomorrow's launch of @pperc.bsky.social, incl. lecture @peternewell.bsky.social ('Political economies of fossil fuel phase out') & @nannetteyoussef.bsky.social discussion of our edited collection on 'Persistent energy & climate crises'. Hybrid event, registration below:

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our new People, Place & Energy Research Centre @manchester.ac.uk is now on Bluesky. Do give us a follow for all matters low-carbon, climate, infrastructure, justice, geography ... Our official launch is on the 18th of June - watch this space.

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@alvinvelazquez @alvinvelazquez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I almost cried during the Bad Bunny show when I saw the workers repairing the electrical system. I spent years working on Puerto Rico's crisis, and this was the one thing I couldn't resolve before moving to the academy. Thanks to the @lpeblog.bsky.social and @lpeproject.bsky.social for sharing this.

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

*Job alert* We are advertising two opportunities @manchester.ac.uk, linked to the JUST centre (www.just.ac.uk) - A Post-Doctoral Research Associate on Social & Built Infrastructure (www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...) - A PhD on Green Skills & Communities (www.findaphd.com/phds/project...)

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JUST (Dev) | Centre for Joined-up Sustainability Transformations | The University of Manchester

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Join us in Brussels/online next week (registration closes soon, see below) for an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral and policy-focused discussion on how to build inclusive and progressive energy futures in Europe and beyond ....

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

We recently launched an #energyequity campaign within @edrc-uk.bsky.social - see below for the launch webinar link. Key messages focus on the benefits that #energyjustice brings, and the need for inclusive #energytransition framings. #energysky

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 29/08/2025

Wind and solar are the perfect renewable power pairing in Britain💨 ☀️ 98% of the time, it is either windy or sunny. Particularly windy days are often cloudier, while very sunny days are usually calmer. A match made in… Britain! 🤝 loom.ly/-pzxBgQ

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The piece calls for a grown-up conversation on climate. Let’s start here: There’s a difference between “we can’t create a truly ecological civilization under capitalism” (true!) and “everything is a lie, we’re doomed, nothing we can do in the next decade is worthwhile” (false!)

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Why are we calling the Trump-Pu meeting a "summit", but the Trump-Ze meeting was just a meeting? Ru isn't a great power and can't achieve its goals. Let's stop feeding their delusions of grandeur.

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George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Over a million 'energy-insecure' UK homes have been built in decade since previous government controversially decided to ditch energy efficiency rules that would have enabled new homes to avoid expensive gas bills: www.businessgreen.com/news/4516130...

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'This could have been avoided': 1.3 million 'energy-insecure' UK homes built since 2015

Since the Zero Carbon Homes Standard was ditched in 2015, more than a million UK homes have been built with fossil gas heating and insufficient insulation levels, ECIU claims

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

'Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe.' www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/c...

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Extreme Heat Shuts Down Some Nuclear Reactors in Europe

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Prof Mari Martiskainen @martiskainen.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Let's challenge terms like "the energy poor" & call out broken system that causes inequities. New paper in @natenergy.nature.com led by @stefanb23.bsky.social w. @kcedano.bsky.social @lld8.bsky.social Tony Reames & Neil Simcock. 1/4 #energysky 🔌💡

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The WSJ didn't include the reason in their headline. Must not have had space. I fixed it.

Original headline: Your electric bill is rising faster than inflation. Here's why. Addition: Natural gas prices.

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Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC) @edrc-uk.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🏡 Who gets energy advice, and who misses out? New research by @stefanb23.bsky.social, Lilia Karpinska, Katherine Sugar and Sławomir Śmiech maps 131 providers across England, revealing major gaps in support. More inclusive, joined-up services are needed. 👉 tinyurl.com/3e6c2p5s

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Networked, fragmented, unequal: The emergent landscape of home energy advice provision in England - Energy Demand Research Centre

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Thank you to the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies @hcas.bsky.social for hosting me at the ‘Environment, Society and Politics’ conference last month. An opportunity to discuss the spectre of right-wing populism re: #justtransitions (and visit a neighbourhood sauna in new-build housing!)

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 25/05/2025

Great Britain pretty much powered by wind and sun right now. The place that literally launched the coal based Industrial Revolution - running on invisible stuff falling from the sky. And I make fun of religion…

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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A new report looks at the relationship between climate change and systemic racism. Only by profiling voices at the heart of the crisis can we create climate policy that actually works 👇 www.runnymedetrust.org/publications/a-vision-for-climate-justice-a-report-from-the-appg-on-race-and-community

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A vision for climate justice: a report from the APPG on Race and Community

A report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Race and Community, investigating the relationship between the climate emergency and systemic racism

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Dr. Sharon Homer-Drummond @shomerdrummond.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Researchers losing their grants are collaborating to make sense out of chaos. grant-watch.us

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Grant Watch

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/04/2025

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We know energy transitions are disruptive. Mainstream models represent smooth lines - renewables going up, fossil fuels going down. How then should we think about the disruptive qualities of energy transitions? @manchestersci.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

AI in education is: - A political project to get even more private tech into schools and universities - Habituating children and students to industry-defined and -demanded "jobs of the future" - Often not actually "AI" ...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/03/2025

This will probably get the least attention of all Trump's moves, but it is, in the fullness of history, the most monstrous & genocidal.

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How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy

President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

100000% this — do not spend time shooting down people who are *doing resistance*: we have to do all the boycotts, protests, lawsuits, ALL OF IT, to minimize harm wherever we can, find the fash's weak spots, and get the normies to realize their lives are fucked unless they do something.

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Thank you Paul! At the national scale (27 EU member states), we found that renewable energy investment decreases energy-related injustices, while changes in GDP do not have a discernible effect. In our model, long-term unemployment and income inequality emerged as the key drivers of #energypoverty.

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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 06/02/2025

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The JustHousing project has a website. With @kevincredit.bsky.social & Fiadh Tubridy, we're working with community orgs & the Community Action Tenants Union (CATU) to strengthen links between housing + climate justice. The 3 year project is funded by @epaireland.bsky.social mu.ie/justhousing

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/01/2025

"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril" www.ft.com/content/63c3...

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The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril.

As many as 80 new gas-fired power plants will be built in the US by 2030, said energy consultancy Enverus, adding 46 gigawatts of capacity — the size of the electricity system in Norway and nearly 20 per cent more than was added in the past five years.

The capacity surge is expected to unfold during the second presidential term of Donald Trump, who has vowed to keep fossil fuels at the centre of the US economy, and signals a reversal of earlier forecasts for natural gas capacity to fall in the next five years.

“Gas is actually growing faster now, and in the medium term, than ever before,” said Corianna Mah, a research analyst at Enverus.

The expansion will imperil Biden administration climate targets, which called for greenhouse gas emissions to fall by 50-52 per cent from 2005 levels by the end of the decade and the grid to be 100 per cent carbon-pollution free by 2035.

“For natural gas to have a role in a decarbonised energy system, its emissions must be mitigated to the maximum extent possible,” said Armond Cohen, executive director at the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental non-profit.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

As ever, to reactionary elites, "freedom of speech" is about being allowed to abuse the powerless, while silencing anyone who pushes back.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Excellent article "Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and a majority of tech platforms are at war with the user, and, in the absence of any kind of consistent standards or effective regulations, the entire tech ecosystem has followed suit." #tech #enshittification www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Entirely corroborates our experience in the energy and climate policy fields

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

'Help us simplify EU grant applications': A worthwhile cause if I ever saw one

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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We shouldn’t be burning stuff anymore. We shouldn’t be building houses out of materials with high embodied carbon when alternatives are available. And we certainly shouldn’t be giving them the RIBA House of the Year Award. lloydalter.substack.com/p/should-a-r...

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Should a RIBA House of the Year have wood stoves?

What ever happened to the concern for sustainability and health?

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Some thoughts here on why moving towards a low-carbon future requires community solidarity and a #repair ethos (cc: #geosky, #energysky). Thank you @placesjournal.bsky.social‬ for giving me the opportunity to explore everyday retrofit practices alongside such a brilliant set of contributors.

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National Energy Action @nea.org.uk · 03/12/2024

Our Head of Wales @bensaltmarsh.bsky.social gave evidence yesterday to the Senedd Equality and Social Justice Committee on the scale of #FuelPoverty, need to ramp up investment in the Warm Homes Programme, and ensure we maximise opportunities to drive up standards and tackle avoidable inequalities.

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New paper out, with support from @edrc-uk.bsky.social. Geospatial analyses show that coastal, rural, highland & inner-city areas in the UK are most likely to be affected by double energy and transport injustices. We hope this will be of interest to the #energyjustice & #climatejustice community.

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Bert Russell @bertrussell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

An energy transition requires expropriating the entirety of this fossil infrastructure.

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National Energy Action @nea.org.uk · 18/11/2024

Don't forget to sign up to take part in the #NationsBiggestHousewarming this #FuelPovertyAwareness Day! All funds raised will help to support people experiencing fuel poverty across the UK 💛 Find out more and sign up: tinyurl.com/yck6f5hn

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Pedro Marques @pedroecongeog.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I created a starter pack for economic geography and others who are somehow related to the field. If I forgot anyone, let me know (not sure if others can automatically add people). go.bsky.app/R2sg5Xt

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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I have the feeling that 'follow Friday is somewhat redundant this month, but if your appetite for UK and Europe energy posters is STILL not satisfied, there are some crackers in this new edition...

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

One week left to apply for these fully funded 3.5 year PhD studentships at the University of Manchester! Please spread the word ... more info @ the links below: 1. 'Governing Housing Retrofit': www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 2. 'The Decarbonisation Divide': www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Governing Housing Retrofit: The Role of Social Intermediaries at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Governing Housing Retrofit: The Role of Social Intermediaries at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Stefan Bouzarovski @stefanb23.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

First-ever European Parliament public hearing on the responsibilities of fossil fuel companies vis-a-vis the energy crisis. I’ll be speaking about the need to tackle Europe’s growing #energypoverty burden.

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