Michael Liebreich

Badly wrong. Learn, then post - not the other way round.

You can't use a coffee machine to send emails. Get over it. If you want different environmental outcomes, fix real world regulations. Don't let businesses run riot and then point at the poor bastard managing your pension and say it's their fault.

A thing that won't work will make capitalism work. Got it.

Capitals Approach – Capitals Coalition A capitals approach enables organizations to understand how their success is underpinned by natural, social and human capital.

Bollox, I'm afraid. If you can't spend it, it's not wealth, it's "wealth". We can use different metrics to judge our economies and politicians, and I'm a big fan of the multiple capitals approach - but you can't pretend you can spend natural capital like cash. capitalscoalition.org/capitals-app...

Irrelevant. No project can teach FID without a bankable offtake. If they secure enough subsidies layered on top of each other, they will go ahead, otherwise they won't. This might marginally speed up the projects that get subsidies, but if it doesn't make more € tens of billions available, so what.

Thanks Bryan!

Thoughts from a three-day immersion trip to Ottawa I've just got back to London from a whirlwind few days in Ottawa, as guest of the Canadian Climate Institute. A few thoughts.

Yup. I hear you.
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⚡electric cars ... performance or sacrifice?

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Thoughts from a three-day immersion trip to Ottawa I've just got back to London from a whirlwind few days in Ottawa, as guest of the Canadian Climate Institute. A few thoughts.

I've just got back to London from a whirlwind few days in Ottawa, as guest of the Canadian Climate Institute. I penned a few thoughts on what I learned.
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I hate the idea. You end up with committees and commissars deciding whether an avocado is a luxury or food, how many square feet you are allowed per child and whether you are ever allowed to fly on holiday. Environmental communism, no thanks.

YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast Can a Transatlantic Electricity Cable Connect North America & Europe? | Ep246: Laurent Segalen

Linking Europe and Canada via a subsea HVDC cable? Obviously! This week on @cleaninguppod.bsky.social, Bryony talked to Laurent Segalen, a brilliant and restless innovator who understands the interaction between commodities and infrastructure as no other. Must listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRET...

Thanks. But sadly I have no special insight into the cost of tidal and floating offshore wind, and the extent they are driven by risk premiums.

As Michael points out this outcome was 100% predictable. Six months before this trial launched I interviewed a dozen EU cities who had trialled hydrogen transport. None would recommend it. All Aberdeen had to do was ask. Deeply frustrating waste of time and money.

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Thanks Owen!

Aberdeen Hydrogen bus fleet to be sold off - Aberdeen Business News Aberdeen City Council is set to sell its entire fleet of 25 hydrogen double-decker buses and exit a £20 million joint venture with oil giant BP, marking the

I've largely stopped posting #HydrogenSoufflé because it seems distasteful to dance on the graves of so many dreams. But... Aberdeen is flogging its hydrogen bus fleet for scrap.

How much money was wasted on this 100% predicable outcome? Will heads roll?
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It was great to see you, and thanks so much for the copy of your book for my daughters. See you in Singapore in May. Go Canada!

Great thread and accompanying article, thanks Dirk!

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This week on @CleaningUpPod.bsky.social I sat down with Miguel Stilwell d'Andrade, CEO of EDP and member of our Leadership Circle. EDP is a global clean energy major, an extraordinary success, and still devoting 60% of its renewables investment to the US. Must listen!
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Complete nonsense. But you know that, Danny.

Not yet...

I've been cranking numbers. Full year 2025, it looks like nuclear power just about kept its nose ahead of wind and solar. But in H2 2025, while wind didn't quite overtake nuclear, solar did. In 2026 nuclear will drop to third place in the production of clean electricity.

YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast Why Renewables Are Booming Despite the Politics | Ep245: Miguel Stilwell d'Andrade

This week on @CleaningUpPod.bsky.social I sat down with Miguel Stilwell d'Andrade, CEO of EDP and member of our Leadership Circle. EDP is a global clean energy major, an extraordinary success, and still devoting 60% of its renewables investment to the US. Must listen!
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A very interesting calculation!

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I did my best in my Bloomberg piece on heat. Read the full section on thermodynamics, tell me what you think: about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

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Sad news, Jesse Jackson's passing. He was a hugely important figure, without whose path-breaking it is hard to imagine Barack Obama winning the Presidency. And he was an incredible orator, one in a billion. Watch how he crafts and delivers this speech. Masterful. youtu.be/6H6vazOz018

"In the many stories I’ve read to my children and grandchildren, not a single one ends with: '...and then the hero gave up'."

Paul Polman (born 1956)

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Ember released an important paper today on which I am named as a co-author.

It is about the need to restructure energy data around the needs of the modern energy system.

Primary Energy is dead, long live Useful Energy!

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Goodbye Suzie. Blocked for being persistent, aggressive, wrong, and worst of all boring.