Dad of 2, Professional in Energy, EI Fellow, Energy Strategy Advisory. ex National Grid. A listed building renovator.
Boston, MA
Joined January 2013
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Graeme Cooper retweeted
My favourite chart from the @IEA special report on electrification. Electricity is only 23% of Final Energy (No big deal), but it's 37% of Useful Energy (What?) and delivers 46% of GDP (Wow!) And it's going clean, fast. Still think there's no transition?
iea.blob.core.windows.net/as…
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK
✍️ Written by Molly Lempriere
📊 Data analysis by Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/VpxOLE5
ALT EVs are now up to nine times cheaper per mile than diesel cars. Pence per mile. A chart shows diesel highest at around 21p, petrol at 20p, EV at price cap at 7p, and EV off peak lowest at under 2.5p. Source: Carbon Brief analysis, DESNZ, Ofgem, Zapmap. - (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Electrification is taking centre stage as the Hormuz crisis spurs countries to strengthen energy security
Our new report, requested by the COP31 Presidencies of Türkiye & Australia, explores the potential to accelerate electrification & the implications: buff.ly/opOilpX
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Today, @Google @NVIDIA @EmeraldAI_ are launching the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), joined by @AnthropicAI, @TheAESCorp, @ConstellationEG, @GenerateCapital, @NationalGrid, @NRGenergy, and a dozen other industry partners.
Our shared mission: modernize power system planning and operations for the 21st century to unlock the full potential of flexible data centers, enabling digital infrastructure to actively enhance system utilization, affordability, and reliability.
Instead of waiting 5-7+ years for traditional system upgrades, multiple studies have found that reducing net grid withdrawal for less than 100 hours per year can unlock dozens of gigawatts of capacity, via compute flexibility, storage, or generation. At Google, we’ve proven this model by integrating 1 gigawatt of demand response capacity nationwide.
To advance this mission, two new Google-commissioned reports are being released today that map actionable pathways forward:
1) @TheBrattleGroup: "Solutions for Timely Interconnection of Large Loads: Enabling Non-Firm Transmission Service," providing a technical blueprint to turn recent bipartisan direction from @FERC into operational reality.
2) @AuroraER_Oxford: "Curtailment Mitigation for Provisional Controllable Load Resources: Modeling the Effects of Front-of-Meter Netting," modeling flexible data centers in @ERCOT_ISO paired with front-of-meter resources.
With thanks to AEMA's additional launch partners, @ADI_News, @CalibrantEnergy, @CamusEnergy, @ClearPathFound, @fluenceenergy, @GridUnity, PassKey, RWE, Splight, @verrusdata, and @voltusinc.
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Clean energy is no longer just about climate - it’s about economics, security and industrial strategy. @MLiebreich's “Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0” piece for @BloombergNEF explains why the transition is now unstoppable, despite the noise.
about.bnef.com/insights/clea…
Graeme Cooper retweeted
🧵 Record-breaking day for Great Britain's electricity system! ⚡
1/ On 22 April, we hit a new zero-carbon record, with zero-carbon sources providing 98.8% of our electricity.
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Not a study, not a survey - but the actual live data from every @OctopusEnergy Cosy heat pump installed in real homes is now online.
And it shows that over 80% of Cosy heat pumps were cheaper to run than a gas boiler over the last year and delivered a COP of 3.7 over the whole year (about 4.3x more efficient than a gas boiler)
There’s so much disinformation from fossil fuel lobbyists on heat pumps - and anecdote based on bad installs or out of date tech - but we hear time and time again how much Octopus customer la love their heat pumps.
Cosy heat pumps can run as hot as a boiler (70C+), can often be installed with no radiator changes and no new insulation, work with microbore piping, can often retain your old hot water tank if you have one.
But so much more - comfort sensors in up to ten rooms, optional remote support and servicing, software updates to literally make your heating better without a visit. Effortlessly working with smart tariffs to save money.
British designed, British manufactured and thousands of great British jobs. Helping insulate Brits from the last gas crisis, this gas crisis and more to come.
See the data for yourself: octopus.energy/cosy-heat-pum…
Graeme Cooper retweeted
🚨 Yet more EV misinfo in the press - this time, with support from the press regulator!
The @DailyMail claimed the average EV costs £50K, more than 2x an average petrol car at £22K
Completely wrong, so we complained to @IpsoNews
Their response was quite something - read on🧵
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Illinois: $1 billion in battery investment will save consumers $13 billion in capacity costs.
This is what @JigarShahDC and I have been talking about the past years. As capacity costs rise while battery costs plummet, we will see more of this.
pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/11/…
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Yes, the target set by the Government's Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate for the % of new cars sold by manufacturers in 2025 that are EVs is 28%
But there's a big BUT here:
Many manufacturers don't need to get anywhere near 28% to comply with the mandate
Why?
Graeme Cooper retweeted
On @BBCr4today this morning Stellantis' UK Director said the following:
"EV sales continue to grow...but not at the level demanded by the government's budget legislation. Remember, we're tasked to achieve 28% this year"
This is inaccurate - here's why:
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ln7…
Graeme Cooper retweeted
A new study has found that EVs offset their energy-intensive production and become cleaner than gas cars after just 3 years, according to Duke and Northern Arizona University.
Gas-powered vehicles were also found to cause at 2X as much environmental damage over their lifetimes as EVs, and said the benefits of EVs can be expected to increase in coming decades as clean sources of power, such as solar and wind, are brought onto the grid.
“While there is a bigger carbon footprint in the very short term because of the manufacturing process in creating the batteries for electric vehicles, very quickly you come out ahead in CO2 emissions by year three and then for all of the rest of the vehicle lifetime, you’re far ahead and so cumulatively much lower carbon footprint," said Drew Shindell, an earth science professor at Duke University and study co-author.
“Accelerating the adoption of battery electric vehicles is a key strategy for decarbonizing the transportation sector which will reduce future damages and costs of climate change.”
I'm attending #DCDConnect | Virginia on November 3-4. Be sure to check out the event, hosted by @datacenterdynamics! invt.io/1txbjsjq4w9
Graeme Cooper retweeted
'We are rewiring Britain, it's a once in a generation moment' Join outgoing @nationalgrid CEO, John Pettigrew and Michael as they explore the UK's £60million plan to deliver clean power and reflect upon John's 35 years with the company. Out now 🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=S7Lg1A95…
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Pleased to say we were recently successful in getting the @southwalesargus to publish a correction to an article in which they claimed that a local car fire was an EV...
...despite the fire service categorically saying that it wasn't
southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2…
Graeme Cooper retweeted
The @BBCNews continues to get its reporting on EVs wrong
Quotes Vauxhall as saying "the [EV sales] target this year is 28%. At the moment we're running at 21.6% as an industry"
Wrong
Flexibilities, that the car industry lobbied for, lower the target for 2025 to 22%
Graeme Cooper retweeted
🎙️ NEW PODCAST 🎙️
In this episode of the Everything Electric Podcast, we sit down with Chris Stark, Head of the UK’s Mission Control for Clean Power 2030 within the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 🔊 buff.ly/kkhfufB @energygovuk
Graeme Cooper retweeted
Lots of Gov EV announcements in last 24hrs
And lots of dodgy reporting
The best/worst being this gem from @BBCNews
"The average price of a new EV in the UK is nearly double the cost of a typical petrol car at £22,000"
Categorically wrong - here's why:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5z…
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