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Solar: main source of EU electricity in June with 22% In the second quarter of 2025, 54.0% of net electricity generated in the EU came from renewable energy sources, an increase from the 52.7% registered in the same quarter of 2024. This increase was mos...

‘Q2’25, 54.0% EU net electricity generated in the EU from renewable energy sources, up 52.7% vs 2024…increase mostly due to solar…19.9% of the total…June 2025 first where solar (22.0%) main source of electricity in EU, nuclear (21.6%), wind (15.8%), hydro (14.1%) natural gas (13.8%)’

Indeed. It's well past time for rate options that reflect capacity costs so DERs/VPPs can get compensated fairly.

Whether that's critical peak charges or credits, daily or weekly demand charges, symmetrical TOU - anything that lets batteries, DR, and thermal storage compete.

Album cover for Full Force's "Your Love is SO DEF"

There's only one Full Force legally authorized to deploy in American streets,

Also makes one wonder what the electric rate impacts will be if these LNG projects never reach FID or shut down early due to global oversupply.

Added to existing pressures from Site C and the existing capital plan, we could reach 5% annual hikes before long (it's already 3.75% this year and next)

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

Analysis: India’s power-sector CO2 falls for only second time in half a century - Carbon Brief India’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its power sector fell by 1% year-on-year in the first half of 2025 and by 2% over the past 12 months

Don't sleep on the good news, folks. It's rare these days. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-ind...

The smart EU countries will get American companies to finance and build the infrastructure and hold all the risk, while the EU benefits from the diverse energy supply options.

In the meantime, they decarbonize asap, achieve energy independence, and US companies get left with the stranded assets.

NEW: The chief of staff to Alberta’s minister of energy and minerals is also the head of the political third-party advertiser Alberta Resource Advocacy Foundation. The group’s chief financial officer is named in lobbying records actively lobbying the energy ministry on more than two dozen accounts.

...and it's not hard to imagine these inverters (aka VFDs) being reprogrammed to use the inertia of the motors and their payloads to support the grid as soon as frequency starts to drop. Utilities could require it for all their big customers (mills, water treatment, etc.) to support system inertia.

Good episode! At least for nerds who spend lots of time thinking about inverters

On the topic of potential software updates for grid support, it's worth remembering that there is lots of spinning mass on both ends of the grid (i.e. motors). Most big motors are driven by inverters these days...

There's an error in the article, some members who signed up before Aug 18 are still required to verify.

Not sure when the 'existing members' exemption ends but signups earlier in August were not exempt.

Emily Lowan Calls for Immediate Fix to BC Green Voter Verification Crisis As the BC Green Party leadership race heads into its critical final weeks, concerns are mounting over a verification process that could disenfranchise thousands of new members — especially youth — who...

BC Greens: fix your voter verification process.

Here are the steps.

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A good substitute in warmer spots is to get a portable power station with solar and plug an AC unit into it, setting it to draw from the grid when the battery gets below 20% or so. You can get a setup like this for around $1000 that saves $200/yr and then still run your AC with the power out.

You don't need to 'both sides' the year a font was created. It's a fact that can just be reported.

It's not the end of the rebates or change in public opinion that are responsible for the drop in sales.

It's almost entirely due to them saying that there will be a $5-10k discount on these cars in the next few months or so. It's doing the exact opposite of what incentives are supposed to do.

I wish they would just drop the pretense of bringing back the rebates (both feds and BC), making people wait for a rebate that may never appear is likely slowing sales more than anything.

It almost seems like they are slow walking the rebates for an excuse to kill the ZEV targets...

A week after I started the process, still no word yet on whether I am verified or not.

I can't believe this is just for new members...creates an obvious bias.

Elections BC needs to manage party races, parties just don't have the experience, infrastructure and independence needed to do it right.

Can confirm, the process is terrible:

-confusing information update required for access to the verification website (requirement later dropped)

-access to the verification process takes up to 2 days after the initial request (I had to request twice)

-confirmation after unclear (see screenshot)

There is a long list of strange decisions around the Green leadership race, but at the top is not only making voter verification nigh impossible, but requiring *only new members* to get verified.

That's not normal. Eg. Fed Libs required it of *all members* voting for leader
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Northern Gateway 1.0 was cancelled in 2016, nine years ago. That year, global EV sales were 770k.

Last year, China alone sold over 11 million EVs, around half of total auto sales and 10x the amount they sold 5 years before.

Who do they think is going to buy more oil 5 years from now?

they both involve picking up trash in parks

Literally not the sharpest knife in the drawer

despite everything, the bikes finally won the war on cars

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8 bedrooms with big price tags instead of 10 with small price tags doesn't seem like a big improvement

Single or double plate is a pretty good and affordable solution, though.

You can even combine it with balcony solar and not have to pay for cooking fuel for the next 20 years or so.

For the DIY electronic music enthusiast, induction has some pretty nifty theremin-like resonance effects when you get two adjacent burners going.

Annoying to some, I'm sure, but I get a kick out of playing good vibrations with the burner knobs.

I could also see thermal storage taking off in a big way here.

A few seacans full of ice made from peak solar would be much cheaper than running cooling entirely off batteries for 4 hours.

It makes sense. Data centers have always had battery backup via uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) to carry the full server load until the generators kick in. Traditionally lead-acid, but moving to lithium now.

Adding cooling load and runtime adds cost, but it's not a totally new expense.

The main feature your battery needs for this is setting when to recharge from the grid, e.g. when it drops below 20%. Not all brands can do this.