Rob Barris

California has installed 17,000 MW of batteries connected to the electricity grid, up from 500 MW in 2020. 🔋🔌💡

Trump Wants to Prop Up Coal Plants. They Keep Breaking Down. According to a new analysis shared exclusively with Heatmap, coal’s equipment-related outage rate is about twice as high as wind’s.

"According to an analysis by the Environmental Defense Fund of data from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation ... coal has the highest 'equipment-related outage rate' ... among coal, hydropower, natural gas, nuclear, and wind." heatmap.news/energy/coal-... by @zeitlin.bsky.social 🔌💡

A chart from sustainableviews.com showing that 2025 marks first year without fossil power growth despite rising demand.

This version of the @ember-energy.org data annual electricity data, from @sustainableviews.bsky.social, is quite good.

I am not going to get overly excited about a single data point.

But the trend is certainly encouraging.

2025 marks first year without fossil power growth despite rising demand
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Trump’s DOE may soon force more coal plants to stay open Colorado coal plants are likely to face DOE orders to keep running past planned closure dates, even as the costs of keeping an old Michigan plant open…

"The Trump administration appears poised to force more coal plants to stay open past their planned closing dates — an unprecedented intervention in the power sector that is already making energy even more expensive for Americans." www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos... by @jeffstjohn.bsky.social 🔌💡

Good morning with good news: Global solar grew by 498 TWh (+31%) in Q1-Q3 2025, compared to 2024, "the largest increase ever over a nine-month period."

Global solar output in first 3 quarters of 2025 already surpassed total output in all of 2024.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

China's fossil generation fell 0.7% in the last twelve months (Q4 2024-Q3 2025). compared to the previous twelve-month period.

India’s fossil generation declined by 2.5% in the twelve months to Q3 2025.

Why?

Mainly surging solar, wind & batteries.

ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

epstein in dozens of pieces of written documentation: the presidential candidate my best friend loves coming over to my house for the young girls i rent

reporters: we are getting closer to busting this thing wide open

Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map Read more here.

BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the GOP’s latest gerrymander ruling that lawmakers violated the state constitution. This restores a voter-approved ban on partisan gerrymandering and enacts a fairer map for 2026.

Good morning with good news: "China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months!"

Transport CO2 fell 5% & electricity CO2 is flat, despite strong demand growth, in Q3 2025, compared to 2024.

Solar surged 46% & wind 11% in Q3 2025!
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi... #energysky

Angry Trump Snaps at Media as Brutal New Data Shows Size of GOP Losses As Trump seethes at journalists amid the release of striking new analyses of the election, a reporter who covers Congress details how Republicans are barred from acknowledging Trump’s unpopularity—a d...

Trump is now claiming "affordability" issue that caused epic GOP losses is a "con." Repubs aren't allowed to contradict the despot, so that's become GOP gospel. Meanwhile MAGA coalition is fracturing.

On the pod, Bulwark's Joe Perticone is so good in explaining this:
newrepublic.com/article/2029...

is this a primary energy chart ?

Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs.

So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract.

Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Cartoon by @rubenbolling.bsky.social.

Here’s how a 50-year mortgage would work

Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"

Growth in solar and wind generation outpaced the rise in global electricity demand in H1-2025. Source: Ember via Cold Eye Earth.

"Midyear reporting indicates that the global power sector is doing a good job covering marginal growth with wind and solar," writes @gregor.us about H1 2025 data from @ember-energy.org: www.coldeye.earth/p/trade-games 🔌💡

Wood Mackenzie confirms new natural gas generation is expensive!

$126/MWh in 2030!

New solar plus batteries are less than half the cost of new gas!

New nuclear ($139/MWh) also is getting close to being cheaper than new gas!

Gas too is dirty, biggest CO2 electricity polluter. #energysky

Costa on a stage with a slide showing a graph going up saying Data center electricity demand could be 6-12% of U.S. electricity by 2028

We need to build more clean electricity than most folks realize just to handle electric vehicles & buildings. The Administration is making clean electricity more expensive & harder to build, all while AI is spiking power demand. At my talk at MIT this week, I said when demand up & supply down: bad.

AOC: "The Supreme Court has given Trump a blank check to continue to commit crimes while in office. So we cannot underestimate the threat and danger of this moment, but we cannot respond to that threat with cowardice."

Fox goes with real-world math over WH gaslight.

Trump: “We’ll have so much winning, you’ll get bored with winning.”

Trump pardons embattled former GOP House speaker, top aide awaiting prison Trump has granted clemency in the opening year of his term to several former elected officials convicted on corruption-related charges.

President Trump has pardoned Glen Casad, the former Tennessee House speaker, and his former top aide in the state legislature just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.

Prosecutors Can Indict a Ham Sandwich, But Can They Convict? What happens when you indict a ham sandwich?

The grand jury refused to indict felony charges so DOJ brought a misdemeanor. The trial jury acquitted—note: that means that every single person on the jury voted for acquittal. There wasn’t even a single vote to convict. joycevance.substack.com/p/prosecutor...

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we found the thing that TX and CA can agree on ... building more clean power!

I would really like to know what the net energy input is per gallon of fuel produced. Or liters, sorry

After closing coal plants, Idaho Power is the rare utility cutting rates The utility asked regulators to lower electricity rates in Oregon, even as its peers raise them — and Trump pushes coal as the solution.

Stop the presses! @latitudemedia.bsky.social "Idaho Power Company asked Oregon state regulators to slash electricity prices by nearly 1% for ratepayers across the board." Shutting down a costly unit of a 522MW coal plant, removed costs to provide the cuts. 🔌💡

www.latitudemedia.com/news/after-c...

E.P.A. Retreats From Plans to End the Energy Star Program

"Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has quietly retreated from plans to eliminate Energy Star," report @maxinejoselow.bsky.social and Lisa Friedman: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c... 🔌💡

Probably need to figutr out how many kWh are needed to produce a gallon of gas, before assuming that's true

One would hope the "Sunshine State" would eventually show up on this