South Australia's electricity mix over the past three days. Wind and solar have produced enough electricity to cover all of the state's power needs.
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South Australia's electricity mix over the past three days. Wind and solar have produced enough electricity to cover all of the state's power needs.
California is the one outlier state - in every other state with a high share of renewables, prices are below the national average. Not so in California partly because wildfire costs are passed through in tariffs
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"The global average number of high humid heat days ... over land reached a record of 35.6 days more than normal in 2024, surpassing the previous record set in 2023 by 9.5 days," says the U.K. Met Office. - Axios
Thank you very kindly Rob đđ
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President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after a report showed weak job growth, prompting outcries from economists and policymakers over the integrity of the data going forward. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Motherfucking wind farmsâŚ
I'm not sure I'm sorry to say
A power outage hit Prague and large sections of Czechia (aka the Czech Republic) today. Czechia's electricity mix is mostly coal and nuclear, so expect silence from the opinionators who instantly, incorrectly blamed the Iberian blackout on renewables/lack of inertia www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...
Trumpâs tax bill will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 a year while giving a boost of $6,055 to those at the top end, according to Yale University economists. - Bloomberg
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Haha exactly
The EU should get to about 65% renewable electricity by 2030, and 25% nuclear, so that means 90% clean by the end of the decade
Ember's data explorer is great: ember-energy.org/data/electri...
In May, renewables accounted for 55% of the EU's electricity generation and comprised nuclear 22% (meaning the share of non-fossil sources in the mix reached 77%). Coal's share slipped to below 7%, a new low. - Ember data
Behind Spain's blackout: 'Conventional generators (mostly gas-fired) failed to supply grid-balancing services theyâd been paid for'. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Wow âď¸ âď¸ âď¸ đ¨đł 198 GW new solar capacity was added in China from January to May 2025 +93 GW alone in the month of May as developers rushed before the new RE pricing policy kicks in
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It seems to be losing out to lithium storage, which is quicker and easier to build. But there's still a role for pumped hydro - China is going big
The South African government has awarded contracts for 616 MW / 2,464 MWh of new battery storage capacity, to be built in the Free State province.
Love it
The worldâs largest electric vehicle isnât a car or busâitâs the eDumper, a 45-tonne mining truck in Switzerland. It hauls 65 tonnes and can finish a shift with more charge than it started, thanks to regenerative braking. If we can electrify mining trucks, whatâs next?
The world prefers its energy more in the form of electricity than anything else.
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This is like saying don't worry about eating food, we need to focus our efforts on drinking water. BOTH ARE IMPORTANT.
BOTH ARE IMPORTANT. You cannot just pause the shift to renewables and electricity.
The White House meeting between Cyril Ramaphosa (my president) and Trump was excruciating. Crime is a universal issue in South Africa. There is no "white genocide". Ramaphosa was meek and Trump was his usual lying self.
That's completely false. Both are equally as important and electrification is efficiency.
Using the primary energy fallacy is misleading
Both.
Yip but a lot of that is wasted energy so it's a slightly distorted picture
It has. Renewables have grown fast enough to more than cover elec demand growth
Coalâs share of Chinaâs electricity mix fell to 52% in April, from 57% a year before, according to CREA. In the first four months of 2025, solar and wind have made up 24% of China's electricity mix, from 19% a year before.
Wind and solar made up 20% of the world's electricity mix in April - a new monthly record. - Ember data
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I hope so and I think so. Agreed
âNow that solar PV is the cheapest source of electricity in history, African governments are increasingly leaning on the technology to plug the power access gap. In the process, theyâre largely leapfrogging the traditional, centralised electrification model.â
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@mliebreich.bsky.social nails it: âBefore blaming renewables for the Spain/Portugal power cut, remember: Itâs better to keep your mouth closed and let people think youâre a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.â mliebreich.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
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The total investment needed for net zero before it starts paying back in savings is ÂŁ319 billionâaccording to the Govâs expert advisers. Thatâs ÂŁ5.62 a week per UK person. What a bargain for energy independence, clean air, warm homes, huge numbers of new jobs⌠oh, and a liveable future..! đ§ľđ
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How so?
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing
"Meanwhile, authorities also helped households to switch from coal-fired boilers to cleaner fuels, and worked to repair degraded ecosystems while also increasing the amount of green spaces within the city, UNEP says." basically: less fossil fuels, more trees theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/12/i...
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yip
Unlikely only because of local politics working to stop solar
One of the craziest things about this order is that it relies on the govt position that climate change isn't real. Just think about the implications of that for a moment â not just for climate but for all of US governance, based on fully apparent lying. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/c...
Not that I know of but I somehow doubt it
I must be honest I focused mainly on grid-scale but shouldâve included more on residential. Federal incentives definitely helped there!
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Thanks Philip, I've seen these but it does come with a lot of complications
Sadly not, I've checked
In case you needed cheering up: Tesla sales kept sliding across Europeâs biggest electric-car markets in April, despite the company rolling out an updated version of its most popular vehicle. - Bloomberg
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Worldâs largest electric ferry is impressive. 2,100 passengers, and 40,000 kWh of charge. Not quite the range for an Irish Sea crossing I suspect, but weâre getting there. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
Indeed. I should've made that clear
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Ya thatâs not great at all
Good in relative terms to what might have been
True
Trump has helped secure wins for pro-science, pro-climate action parties in Canada and Australia. Thanks Donald!
True
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'Saudi Arabiaâs big businesses are embracing solar power as they seek to save on energy costs after the government eliminated electricity subsidies in the worldâs largest oil exporter.' Behind a paywall but that sentence is the important part.
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I think Just Share do a lobbying report and it's due out about now
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