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Independent Scientific Adviser for Scotland
Scotland
Joined September 2017
@Statkraft @jonasgahrstore @KwasiKwarteng With more partners around the table - 🇩🇰🇫🇴🇮🇸🇬🇱🏴 🇪🇺- 🇬🇧🤝🇳🇴 can collaborate to exploit extraordinary wind energy resources, via a North Sea supergrid, using our hydroelectricity to balance supply with demand. https://t.co/7AdFjJMHfN
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I did offer to serve as CEO of Great British Energy but Michael 'Armitage' Shanks🙈🙉 prefers a poodle he can control, who doesn't point out his terrible mistakes. https://t.co/5vFUIgzBTw
#GBEnergy #Aberdeen #DESNZ
Tomorrow's front page: UK minister makes just ONE visit to Aberdeen for GB Energy
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How to "construct a 500 GWh system at Loch Ness Scotland". Eskin Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 500GWh https://t.co/aGqlUTKTU6
#wired #Tech #Technology
As the world looks to incorporate more renewables into energy grids, centuries-old systems that can balance supply and demand are being reappraised and innovated upon.
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How to "construct a 500 GWh system at Loch Ness Scotland". Eskin Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 500GWh https://t.co/aGqlUTKTU6
#RenewableEnergy #electricity #pumpedstorage
As the world looks to incorporate more renewables into energy grids, centuries-old systems that can balance supply and demand are being reappraised and innovated upon.
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#RE100 #pumpedhydro #energystorage @AnuGrid Eskin Pumped Storage Hydro Scheme 500GWh https://t.co/aGqlUTKm4y
Andrew Blakers of Australian National University. “If you want serious storage, you want pumped hydro,” he says .. the UK, for one, is currently “not serious” about pumped hydro and won’t be until it constructs a 500 GWh system at Loch Ness in Scotland. https://t.co/rgmCxZqrBS
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Andrew Blakers of Australian National University. “If you want serious storage, you want pumped hydro,” he says .. the UK, for one, is currently “not serious” about pumped hydro and won’t be until it constructs a 500 GWh system at Loch Ness in Scotland. https://t.co/rgmCxZqrBS
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As the world looks to incorporate more renewables into energy grids, centuries-old systems that can balance supply and demand are being reappraised and innovated upon.
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These capacity circles mean GWs of power, not GWh of energy. The UK's 🐩Brearley is shuffling chairs on his #OFGEM Titanic. Strathdearn PHS could provide more than 100GW of power and up to 6800GWh of energy storage. #UKEnergy #pumpedhydro
Wow, the UK is ramping up its energy storage game Pumped hydro, hydrogen, batteries popping up everywhere Those capacity circles? They mean business
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@LesleyRiddoch Pumped hydro "water batteries" are not a fire risk but require more planning time & effort. The Strathdearn Pumped Hydro Scheme - so gigantic it could serve the whole UK grid. https://t.co/tZQSfgdJiG
#pumpedhydro #UKenergy
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Location Click for a larger image The map shows how and where the biggest-ever pumped-storage hydro-scheme could be built – Strathdearn in the Scottish Highlands. Energy storage capacity The …
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Big questions about energy infrastructure news. 1. Why are we shipping energy across UK fm Highlands to s of England when they have green resources too? 2. Do windfarm communities benefit? 3. Can any of them really object or is this a done deal? A film. https://t.co/77QpmoiFLR
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No, Keith Anderson, vandal of Longannet, https://t.co/DSww8QXqf8 it is not "OK" - privatisation, late grid upgrades, rip-off energy bills from #ScottishPower, deadly CCS scam. Shame on Red Ed & Armitage for leaving #OFGEM Tory 🐩Brearley in charge. #RadioScotlandBreakfast
What fuels our new breakfast presenters? Martin Geissler, Laura MacIver and Phil Goodlad share their morning rituals. Listen to Radio Scotland Breakfast on BBC Sounds. #RadioScotlandBreakfast #MartinGeissler #LauraMaciver #PhilGoodlad
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That 5000GWh AAA pumped hydro scheme "for Alberta" is in British Columbia - so a joint venture with @bchydro maybe? @Cappy_Nate with the Global Pumped Hydro Atlas!👍 Alberta would not need more storage than 1000GWh though. https://t.co/bpGJ8zufLO
#Alberta #PumpedHydro #RE100
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Alberta’s electricity grid modellers are concerned about the transition to renewable energy undermining grid stability and risking power blackouts – with good reason. Alberta’s el…
These 5 Pumped-Hydro Storage locations could store Alberts's entire grid for 1.5 MONTHS. And no, they wouldn't cost $500B.
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Unproductive £ billions wasted on the deadly Carbon Capture & Storage scam IS on the Labour Govt, Red Ed & Armitage. https://t.co/WvSeLUkErJ Rachel Reeves🤥 is a lying SCUNThorpe - her budgets ARE reducing productivity! #RachelReeves #LabourParty #ukbudget2025
Just watch this. Rachel Reeves forced to watch her own lies. Utterly embarrassing. She must go. 👇
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Across Europe, old car tires pose a massive environmental challenge. They don’t decompose, they release toxic chemicals if burned, and they fill up landfills at an alarming rate. But a Czech company has turned this problem into a brilliant solution: recycling used tires into
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We need a #WealthTax because everyday people cannot continue to pay any more, they need to go to the wealthiest in our society and they also need to change the fiscal rules so that we can borrow to invest. @LeftFootFwd #Budget2026 1/2
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The periodic table of elements scaled to show the actual abundance of the elements on Earth by Prof. Wm. F. Sheehan in 1976.
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@GraemeDeyMSP @_KateForbes 😢🎙️🎶 If you leave 🏴me now You'll take away the biggest part of me Ooh-ooh, no, baby, please don't go And if you leave me now You'll take away the very heart of me Ooh-ooh, no, baby, please don't go Ooh-ooh, girl .. #SNP #KateForbes
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China’s Big Wind is welcome to Scotland https://t.co/ghYQTEYJvt
#KateForbes 🏴🏆#SNP #ScottishGovernment
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💷 Kate Forbes has called out Westminster's £550m handout to Labour-run Wales — with nothing for Scotland. ❌ The UK Government can’t keep ignoring the Barnett Formula when it suits them. 👉 Read more: https://t.co/yX0tAFPl2o
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The only problem being that the UK has put one of its most clueless poodles in charge of funding pumped hydro schemes. https://t.co/ZMSFGXxQuN
#GBEnergy #DESNZ #OFGEM
The UK is finally scaling long-duration energy storage. https://t.co/9765qREMJY A pumped-hydro project in Scotland (1.8 GW / 40 GWh) has progressed through planning and the new Cap-and-Floor mechanism. Enough stored energy to power 1.4 million homes for ~22 hours. Wind +
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