Christine Shearer

Global Energy Monitor is your go-to source for data on power stations around the world, with a detailed database of existing power stations (capacity, ownership, coordinates, etc.), planned new construction, cancellations, etc.. They've recently released their July 2025 update.

E&E News: Trump team pushes for ouster of top IEA official The administration and its Republican allies in Congress say the International Energy Agency discourages fossil fuel investments around the world.

When institutions produce information & analysis that Trump doesn't like, Trump seeks to fire the people that produced it. Now he's going after the IEA.

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Oh you absolutely useless wankers

Trump's Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill will raise your energy prices.

@heinrich.senate.gov and I explain how:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN9O...

Tchau, querida

A group of former lawyers from the U.S. Justice Department and major law firms launched a new nonprofit on Monday to take on cases for free opposing actions by the Trump administration @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4lgJTLc

"In a notice to be published in the Federal Register, the department said it would start a 12-month pilot program under which people from countries deemed to have high overstay rates could be required to post bonds."

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I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under “TRUMP” despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting “Kamala” elected – How did that work out? Jerome “Too Late” Powell should also be put “out to pasture.” Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today

You're hired!

Yeah, despite all Trump's efforts more coal power capacity is on track to retire this year than last year under Biden.

Ugh, when I first saw this I thought it was satire. 🙃

Consumers Energy spends millions keeping coal plant open per fed order The utility expects the cost to be shared by customers in the north and central regions of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator.

Turns out forcing old, uneconomic coal plants to remain online when the operator wanted to retire them is expensive. Keeping Campbell running in MI has cost $29 million over 5 weeks: www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

Coal Phaseout Tool Global coal phaseout: Tracking coal plant retirements In order to meet the Paris Agreement goals and put the world on a pathway to no more than 1.5°C of global warming, all existing coal plants must b...

Where are we on the path to coal phaseout? Explore the latest by country and region in @globalenergymon.bsky.social's recently revamped coal phaseout dashboard: globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo...

Looking forward to the sexy coal calendar.

China’s overuse of coal is causing negative power prices To further wind and solar growth, coal must assume its designated role of flexible standby rather than static mainstay, write two economists

Interesting article on how coal power overcapacity in China is hampering the incentives for renewables: "If China is to eliminate frequent negative prices on the spot market, it needs to prevent the overuse of coal power." @dialogueearth.bsky.social dialogue.earth/en/energy/ch...

Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes - Communications Earth & Environment Models tend to underestimate mean monthly maximum temperature anomalies by 2-3% and extreme anomalies by 11-12% over the period 1980 and 2023, which could lead to temperatures 3 °C to 5 °C higher than...

Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means.

If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Australia ranks third in world for new coal mines, despite climate commitments, report says New report finds Australia ranks third in the world for the amount of new coal mines under development, despite its climate commitments.

Australia is third in the world next to China and India for new coal mine construction despite its promised climate commitments, according to the latest Global Energy Monitor report.

New from me in @reneweconomy.com.au:

TRANSITION? WHAT TRANSITION?

Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source

www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Solar has real land-use considerations but this graphic does a good job of contextualizing that demand compared to what we devote to ethanol, which is good for farmers' bottom line but does not at all accomplish its climate raison d'être.

Great new national climate dashboards!
Check yours in the link below.

climatechangetracker.org/nations/gree...

Yeah wind farms ruin the view…

"‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"

Groups had planned to protest in Raleigh the day before N.C. lawmakers overrode the governor's veto of a controversial energy bill that eliminates Duke Energy's near-term carbon pollution limits and more. They had to cancel the event due to severe heat. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”

The U.S. Clean Energy Manufacturing Boom Is Sputtering More than $30 billion of clean energy investments are now on ice since Trump took office, according to new data from Wellesley College’s Big Green Machine.

More than $30B in U.S. clean energy manufacturing investment has paused, canceled, or delayed in the six months since Trump took office, according to a new report

During the same period, only $3B in new investment has been announced

new from me, in @heatmap.news:
heatmap.news/economy/trum...

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