Assaad Razzouk

In Nepal, EVs accounted for 76% of all new passenger vehicles and 50% of the light commercial vehicles over the past year

5 years ago, that number was zero: EVs take over slowly, then suddenly

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

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Solar's rise is the fastest in the history of electricity

It's not stopping - and can't be stopped - and will dominate electricity consumption by 2035, everywhere

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Soaring electric truck sales deal new blow to diesel use in China Electric-powered heavy trucks are rapidly gaining market share in China, driven by subsidies and the quick rollout of chargers, further curbing diesel usage and denting oil demand from the world's biggest crude importer.

World's biggest crude oil importer is ditching Big Oil, fast: Electric-powered heavy trucks' sales soared 175% year-on-year to 76,100 in the first half of 2025, hitting a 25% market share

Transport sector on track to cut its diesel demand 40%

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Heat domes tripled in strength and duration since 1950s - as June temperatures reach dangerous highs in the US and Europe, while persistent low pressure systems saw China, Pakistan and India hit by floods

"Typical” summer weather is a thing of the past

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How the next financial crisis starts The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil

"This idea of a persistent #climate imprint on real estate marks a shift in thinking about the relatively new concept of climate-fuelled financial instability. This is the story that may matter most, if only because it is so hard to see how it finishes"

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We might actually make a great leap forward at the climate talks this year - and it’s even possible that we could begin to reverse the gradual hijacking of climate talks by Big Oil. For the first time in 30 years.

State of the Climate:
1 Our oceans are in an “alarming” 2-year streak of rapid warming
2 Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 hit their highest seasonal peak since records began

It really couldn’t be worse

We need more, so much more, climate action NOW

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The first terawatt Solar Power is here: In 2024, global cumulative PV capacity reached 2.2 TW, with China the only country to surpass 1 TW after building 60% of new global solar capacity

Superabundance of energy on its way to upend the global “order”

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Japan: nothing can compete with solar + BESS:
1 Rooftop solar in Japan alone can deliver 1.2 times the electricity from the country's total electricity generation today
2 Integrating PV with EV cuts emissions 87 % and costs 33 %

Let's get on with it - faster

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

India's coal-fired power is down 9.5% in May on an annual basis, marking the sharpest year-on-year decline ever (excluding COVID)

Because: renewables surged to record high, up 17.2% from a year earlier to reach highest share of power generation ever

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Episode 92 - The Angry Clean Energy Guy The Angry Clean Energy Guy on the space race of this century: becoming a solar superpower.

The only space race of this century that really matters: becoming a solar superpower. Any and all countries are in contention. The global order is on its way to be potentially dramatically re-shuffled

Ep 92 of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast is out: theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/epis...

Planetary Boundaries – defining a safe operating space for humanity On this website, you will find the answers to some frequently asked questions about Planetary Boundaries – intended as a quick guide for orientation, covering key terms and concepts.

More on planetary boundaries: www.pik-potsdam.de/en/output/in...

Nothing "unexpected" about this: we've breached the ocean acidification’s planetary boundary 5 years ago. That's 7 out of 9 breached - should be completely expected given Big Oil continue to pollute more, freely, free of charge; while science is silenced

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How electric scooters are driving China's salt battery push The country is racing ahead of the rest of the world in bringing sodium-ion batteries to the mass market. This time, through scooters.

50 million electric two-wheelers were sold in China in both 2023 and 2024 – some 5 times the number of all pure, hybrid and fuel-cell electric cars combined sold in the country

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Top 4 fastest coal phase-outs
1 Portugal: Complete coal phase-out in 4 years, to zero in 2021
2 Greece: Complete phase-out in 7 years, to zero in 2026
3 Denmark: Complete phase out in 11 years, to zero in 2028
4 UK: Complete phase-out in 12 years, to zero in 2024

Blatten stood for centuries. In seconds, it was gone

"I was speechless, it was the worst case that could happen. Mr Huss and his team check Switzerland’s glaciers, and their annual reports show a clear, accelerated thaw, linked to global warming"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Today in SE Asia, BESS with EMS and PCS (all from China) are comfortably under $100/kWh all-in. That's 50% down in 1 year

Solar + BEAS will be everywhere all at once by 2030: no other source can compete on price, or speed of deployment, or on scaling-up

The era of [clean] energy abundance is here

The future is already here: in California, batteries - mostly powered by solar - will routinely be the single largest source of electricity on the grid

We’re already there in California, the world’s 4th largest economy

www.pv-magazine.com/2025/05/28/b...

We're at the stage when it's the first time ever that scientists’ computer models flag a 2C year, something deemed "effectively impossible" just a few years ago

All because Big Oil and its stooges want to burn the world - but we won't let them

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China deploys world’s biggest fleet of driverless mining trucks The project aligns with the nation’s broader push to upgrade traditional industries with AI and other advanced technologies.

World's largest fleet of driverless e-mining trucks (100 vehicles) is live in China - with 5G-A comms, industrial-strength AI, cloud computing, smart battery swapping

China is deploying 5,000 in 2025 and 10,000 by 2026, totally bossing Industrial EV AI

www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

Solar PV has had the fastest deployment in history of any energy source

It's not stopping here: Solar will continue to be installed faster than any other source in history, delivering in a few more years electron over-abundance and powering entirely new business models

China added a phenomenal 60GW of solar in Q1 as rooftop installations surged to 36GW

60GW is more than the total installed solar capacity in Spain and France combined. And China installed it all in just 3 months

renewablesnow.com/news/china-a...

Do you still of England as "The Land of Mizzle" or "The Foggy Isles"? These days are most likely over - as England faces its driest year this century, with river levels well below their historic average and reservoirs depleted

Yes, it's climate change

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Why we won't know the cause of Spain's blackouts for months or years; the history of blackouts; the solutions we are drowning in; and how the ultimate cure is to go bigger and faster on solar + BESS

Ep 91 of the Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast is out: theangrycleanenergyguy.com/podcast/epis...

An ASEAN grid is on its way fast, adding 17GW of interconnection capacity and 3,000km of electricity grid - facilitating the addition of 30GW of renewables by 2030

Once in place the 2040's will see the region decisively move to close to 100% renewables

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*Historic*: China’s CO2 emissions fell for 1st time ever over more than a year despite rapid power demand growth, because of the spectacular consistency of the growth in China’s clean power generation

Incredibly meaningful on so many levels

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

China is on track to be the world’s 1st “electrostate”, with its economy powered by clean tech

It will handily beat its targets of peak emissions by 2030, rapid reduction by 2045 and being carbon free by 2060

www.ft.com/content/f867...

France mandates solar panels on car parking roofs for parking lots larger than 1,500 sq m. The mandate aims to add 11GW of solar to the grid, or about 10 nuclear reactors in terms of installed capacity

Now imagine this policy went global, and battery storage was added too

Energy security: $100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated

That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed. Fact.

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Trump administration minimized federal climate scientists’ findings of record CO2 growth | CNN Levels of carbon dioxide — the most abundant planet-warming gas in the air — jumped up by a record amount in 2024.

CNN article: edition.cnn.com/2025/04/22/c...