Rob Trokey 🇺🇦

#GraphicOfTheWeek: The North Sea is home to 101 operational offshore wind farms, with around 30 GW of installed capacity.

It is the largest wind hub in the world, supplying #renewable #wind energy to six European countries.

See last week's top graphic: https://loom.ly/AWSeFdE

Good morning with good news: Plug-in EVs were 59% of China's auto sales in December 2025, with 1.34 million sold!
That is up from 48% in December 2024.

BEV were 35% in 12/2025, compared to 25% in 12/2024.

China may reach 100% EV sales by 2035!
cleantechnica.com/2026/01/20/a... #energysky

What are the problems with Trump's US from a European point of view:
1. Trump sees Europe as the main enemy of the US.
2. Trump wants to break up the European Union.
3. Trump opposes NATO.
4. Trump supports Putin & his aggression on Ukraine. /1

The New Hampshire PUC just ended 2025 with a bang, by issuing a blockbuster order on rehearing in the Eversource electric rate case. 1/10

Utilities Analyst-Electric (Economics/Finance/Public Policy) - Atlanta, GA 30334 - Indeed.com Ga Public Service Commission

Career Opportunity: Utilities Analyst-Electric (Economics/Finance/Public Policy) www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1...

A new era of fossil fuels to facilitate data centres? Reaction to the CRU policy in relation to data centre connections

Ireland's energy regulator finally published its data centre connection policy. It facilitates a new era of fossil growth to facilitate this enormous energy user.

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How Resilient Will the US Consumer Be Without a Job? Imagine headlines flashing news of 20,000 jobs lost each month from US payrolls. Consumer and investor sentiment would crater and the pressure on the Federal Reserve to keep cutting interest rates wou...

Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: The signals we’re getting from companies about their own staffing plans in 2026 suggest continued deterioration in the labor market, and without a pickup in hiring it’s hard to optimistic growth forecasts work out: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.

“Without data to support their decision & defying warnings from doctors, medical associations, & public-health groups, a federal advisory panel stocked with loyalists to Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to stop recommending a life-saving vaccine to infants at birth”

Good morning with good news: Vietnam's 2025 energy plan increases solar capacity to 73 GW by 2030 from ~16 GW operating in 2024.

Wind grows to ~38 GW by 2030.

S&W were ~13% of electricity in 2024

Coal falls to 17% by 2030 from 50% in 2024!

Wow!
solarquarter.com/2025/04/21/v... #energysky

Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution

$113 Million & counting!

63-year-old jalopy coal plant raises electricity costs for Michigan's captive monopoly ratepayers by $113 million and counting!

Trump Admin order was not supported by MI regulators or local utility!

Coal also sickens people!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #energysky

Good morning with good news: Solar & wind will skyrocket to 37% of China's electricity in 2030 from 18% in 2024.

Add 13% from hydro and China is 50% renewable in 2030.

Add ~5% nuclear and China is ~55% non-fossil fuel electricity in 2030.
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Cheaper batteries are driving surging global battery storage deployment, which is a key tool to enable wind and solar to generate 50% plus of a nations' electricity.

BNEF forecasts 94 GW of global battery storage deployment in 2025 and 227 GW in 2027, more than 3X 2024 total. #energysky

Good morning with good news: Fossil fuels fell from 57.23% in June 2024 to 55.45% in June 2025 of global electricity.

That 1.78-point fall in 12 months was ~50% more than average yearly fall of 1.15 points since 2019.

FF may drop to ~46% by June 2030!

Why?

Surging wind & solar!
#energysky

Japan marked 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima during World War II.

At a ceremony, a moment of silence signaled the time of the blast eight decades ago.

Energy Department’s flawed grid study props up expensive, zombie power plants The most effective way to maintain grid reliability is to let planners plan, markets work and utilities build the resources they’ve already identified as the most affordable path forward.

My first Utility Dive byline! @brendan.bsky.social and I show that DOE's 7/7 reliability report created a fake supply gap by ignoring most new generation planned by 2030, then only considered filling it with expensive coal plants instead of the cheaper renewables, storage and gas utils have planned.

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

Please read in full. This is a red line moment in America! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

What the hell is this?! Now all it takes to revoke a person's legally obtained visa is for anyone in the government to arbitrarily decide your exercise of free speech constitutes "creating a ruckus." Then poof: no more visa & the masked security services can abduct you off the street? In America?!!

BEFORE: Henderson, Millett, and Walker*, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motions for stay, the opposition thereto, the reply, and the Rule 280) letters; the amicus brief filed by South Carolina, Virginia, and other states; the motion to participate as amicus curiae filed by Rep. Brandon Gill and the lodged amicus brief; and the motion for leave to participate as amicus curiae filed by State Democracy Defenders Fund and former government officials and the lodged amicus brief, it is ORDERED that the motions to participate as amicus curiae be granted. The Clerk is directed to file the lodged amicus briefs. It is FURTHER ORDERED that the emergency motions for stay be denied. Separate concurring statements of Judge Henderson and Judge Millett and a dissenting statement of Judge Walker are attached. Per Curiam FOR THE COURT: Clifton B. Cislak, Clerk BY: /s/ Daniel J. Reidy Deputy Clerk * Judge Walker dissents from the denial of the emergency motions for stay.

NEW: The DC Circuit Court of Appeals, 2–1, DENIES the government's request to block Judge Boasberg's TRO. No alleged members of Tren de Aragua will be deported under the Alien Enemies act for now. Judge Henderson writes that the gov't hasn't met its burden. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine “I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.

"WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine"

“I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk, on her way to iftaar, reports @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo.

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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Open Circuit The energy transition, decoded. Jigar Shah, Katherine Hamilton, and Stephen Lacey explain the tech, market, and policy forces accelerating the energy transition.

🧵 Some big personal news: After four years apart, I'm reuniting with @jigarshahdc.bsky.social and @cleangridview.bsky.social for a new podcast, called "Open Circuit."

The future of energy-first data centers takes shape Three developers unpack their strategies for scaling up, connecting to the grid, and sourcing clean power in the AI era.

My latest on the shift toward energy-first data center development: “For most of its history, data centers were presented as solutions to utilities. They were offering large-scale, flat offtake,” explained Sayles Braga. "Pretty quickly, that has flip flopped.” #energysky

At nearly $3 billion, storm restoration costs for 2024 estimated by Duke Energy appear to be the highest for any US electric utility ever for a single storm season (Hurricane Sandy likely higher in aggregate, but not for one utility). Via S&P: www.spglobal.com/marketintell...

800 GW from geothermal? Seems like a pretty big deal.

The Georgia Public Service Commission is hiring. #energysky

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