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More and more international researchers I talk to are choosing not to visit the US in the current political climate. Over time, I think this will complicate information exchange between US and international researchers, slowing the process of scientific discovery.

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Solar can deliver growth, competitiveness, and resilience all over the world Solar is so scalable, so versatile, that every single country in the world, every single human on the planet from the frozen North to the deepest rainforests, from the dry, arid plains of the Atacama to the buzzing metropolises of New York, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo.

Solar can deliver growth, competitiveness, and resilience all over the world #energysky -- via pv magazine global:

Where fools dare to tread

Postcard from the future: Sacramento’s Rancho Seco clean energy park The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has remade the site of a shuttered nuclear reactor into a clean energy park. With power demand growing, the model could be replicated at retired or underutili...

Sunday reading: Sacramento's utility has remade the site of a shuttered nuclear reactor into a clean energy park. With power demand growing, the model could be replicated at retired or underutilized thermal power plants across the US www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/postcard-fro... via Quitting Carbon 🔌💡

Australia just installed 16,000 home batteries in 28 days. We need innovation to match - One Step Off The Grid Cheaper Home Batteries is driving record uptake, but experts warn that without better deals for consumers, much of their grid-wide value could be lost.

Australians rushing to put batteries in their homes and businesses after their liberal government gave a 30% subsidy whereas when we had a liberal government in the USA that offered a 30% subsidy towards installing batteries Americans were ho-hum about it. 🔌💡
onestepoffthegrid.com.au/australia-ju...

Share of electricity generation from solar in United States Percentage share Data: Ember Electricity Data Explorer, ember-energy.org EMBER

Regardless of the fact that Republicans are desperate to stop Americans from taking advantage of cheap energy from PV in order to help protect fossil fuel industry profits, when Trump first took office in January 2016, we got less than 1% from solar yet this January we got over 5% from PV. 🔌💡

The Administration is stopping clean energy projects at a time of rising electricity demand because of AI. The result? Your electricity bills will be higher and there will be more pollution.

In Texas, just an hour ago, the grid hit a 2025 peak demand record at 82,566 megawatts. Solar was providing 30% of the power, and wind was about 16%. The cost of wholesale power in Texas was $22 a MWh. No conservation alert, no shedding or shutdown – just abundant affordable power. Shine on.

Eesh. That's not making me happy like your Cali posts

New graphs showing fossil gas use down 42.5% since 2023 and 24.3% since 2024 on CAISO grid

WWS up 16%, solar up 47.4%, batteries up 213% since 2023

162nd of 207 days in 2025 with >100%, for an avg of 4.7 h/day (v 1 h/d in 2023)

WWS has met 57.5% of demand in '25 v 48.7% in '23

34GW!

21% less fossil gas used in CA so far in 2025 than in 2024 & 40% less than in 2023

Demand also down 0.6% v 2024 & 0.8% v 2023

So much for claims that
1) We need more fossils to meet increase in demand due to AI
2) Grid can't stay stable unless we use unleash more fossils

Australia needs a smart COP playbook and it’s staring us right in the face What if COP shifted the climate battle from global targets to consumer benefits?

Awesome article @danjcass.bsky.social

theenergy.co/article/aust...

genuinely surprised this story hasn’t taken off on bluesky yet

Srsly.

Cartoon of road jammed with cars between single detached homes in suburban, car-dependent sprawl.

Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?

The US has had an intent, which was strategically pursued by both parties for all of the century so far with subsidies, R&D support and so on. All the things you are pointing out China did for RE, US did for fracking. Of course we can do long term sustained central planning. We did. Still do.

U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a week Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

The U.S. just had four 1-in-1,000 year storms…in one week.

This is the climate crisis, not coincidence. nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/flood-storms-climate-change-1-in-1000-year-rainfall-rcna217863

IRENA: Global renewable power capacity surged by 15 per cent in 2024 The global renewables boom is transforming energy markets, driving economies, and creating investment opportunities - but many regions are at risk of being left behind

IRENA: Global renewable power capacity surged by 15% 2024 www.businessgreen.com/news/4516191...

Oil Market Report - July 2025 – Analysis - IEA Oil Market Report - July 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

The trend towards lower oil demand growth, in place for some years now, looks very encouraging.

IEA in today's OMR:

"World oil demand growth is forecast to increase by 700 kb/d in 2025, its lowest rate since 2009, with the exception of the 2020 Covid year."

www.iea.org/reports/oil-...

Electric school bus summer continues for The Mobility House, as we celebrate 4 ribbon cuttings in just 3 months.

Want a battery for your home? Your hot water tank is a great start Save money and help balance the grid – with the thermal storage solution you might already own

NEW: Clever tech that predicts when people need hot water could help water tanks balance the grid when renewables surge.

This idea has been around for a while - but making it work for everyone is tricky. Here could be a solution!

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Has There Ever Been a Better Time to Buy an EV? With federal tax credits for electric vehicles about to end, carmakers try rock-bottom pricing to spur sales.

"Despite EV skepticism, EV models have proliferated. There are 75 models on sale in the U.S. this year, up from fewer than 20 on offer in 2020. There are twice as many incentives offered to buy EVs as exist for gas-powered cars…"

🔌💡🔌🚗

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EVs Will Decimate Big Oil. Even Without U.S. Tax Credits. Electric vehicles are already displacing millions of barrels of oil per day globally. Oil demand is expected to fall spectacularly over the next decade.

In 2024 EVs were displacing two million barrels of road fuel per day. That’s almost equal to how much the whole of South Korea uses in a single day.

The fossil fuel industry is in an existential battle to maintain their gravy train. That's why our fight is so hard. 🔌💡
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Another day, another pitch to cover a report about how to provide energy for AI data centers with zero mention of carbon. The whole energy/tech/media complex has completely thrown climate under the bus without a second thought in order to chase the shiny object of AI. 🤮

California Approves $169M Darden Project: World’s Largest Solar+Battery Storage at 1,150 MW he California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved the landmark Darden Clean Energy Project (DCEP), set to become the world’s largest battery energy storage facility. This is the first project to b…

California Approves $169M Darden Project: World’s Largest Solar+Battery Storage at 1,150 MW

energystoragepro.com/2025/06/17/c...

Texas dodges blackouts in heat wave — but new laws could undo progress Three years ago, a similar early season heat wave pushed ERCOT grid to the brink. It was...

Yes. Efficiency of thermal plants does fall during heat wave, which causes many summer brown and blackouts. Having a distributed energy grid powered by different types of renewables with storage provides better grid stability. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.expressnews.com/business/art...

More and More and, surprisingly, Less I was excited to get my hands on Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s latest book More and More and More – An All-Consuming History of Energy [1]. He offers up a very lively critique of the notion of hist…

My critique of Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s book 'More and More and More – An All-Consuming History of Energy' ...

'More and More, and Surprisingly, Less' essaysconcerning.com/2025/06/25/m...

#Energysky #Climatesky