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Someone is taking the piss over at the EU Commission AV department #Rodney
22.05.2025 12:54 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
In Wednesday’s episode of The Jolt, Sam looks into why California’s rooftop solar rollout is at risk of stalling, plus the European Union deploys new sanctions against Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/sIkFRX...
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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Reasons For Merz's Vote Failure Revealed As Faxes And Trains Scupper Chancellor Bid
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My conversation with @smorgan.bsky.social on how to move to #renewableenergy without losing #bioidversity in the process
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Finland has quietly but effectively marched ahead with the energy transition. Helena Sarén joins the show to explain the secret to the Scandinavian nation’s green success.
By @smorgan.bsky.social
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In today’s episode of The Jolt, Sam and Dave look into how wind energy is going from strength to strength, plus Bosnia agrees on new electricity rules
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/s67ip7...
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Shame this account over on the garbage fire platform wasn’t around 4-5 years ago. Boy, there’d have been some content to share then…: x.com/euractivleak...
09.04.2025 17:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
On Energy Enablers this week, Giles Dickson from WindEurope talks about how the wind sector can help Europe’s industries go green.
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A photo of a few scattered houses and buildings in Saint Pierre and Miquelon along the coastline. It is a French archipelago south of the Canadian island of Newfoundland. Sparsely populated Miquelon-Langlade island contains the Grand Barachois lagoon, home to seabirds and seals. An island nearby, Île-aux-Marins, features an abandoned fishing village.
Another one! This is St. Pierre et Miquelon. Population: 5819.
It now has one of the world’s highest tariffs - 99%. The US imported only $3.5M of its shellfish last yr. BUT the island imports ZERO from the US.
So, the idiotic White House formula (imports v exports) couldn’t cope. It spat out 99%.
In Wednesday’s episode of The Jolt, Sam looks into a new audit of the European Union’s electricity network expansion plans, plus Great Britain breaks a renewables record
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/sltsJX...
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In today’s episode of The Jolt, Sam looks at how Finland is leading the way in the energy transition, plus Norway’s sovereign wealth fund buys into two big wind power projects
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/shmb82...
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Remove “for Ukraine” and this is an intriguing idea
28.03.2025 08:03 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
In today’s episode of The Jolt, Sam looks into offshore wind’s 2025 fortunes, plus 2024’s record renewables rollout still might not be enough
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/sf2tvf...
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Not sure if I inspire @smorgan.bsky.social or if it is just a case of great minds thinking alike. I'm really fine with either one.
25.03.2025 20:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Not even Politico is immune from confusing Slovenia and Slovakia
Tsk tsk
In today’s episode of The Jolt, Sam looks at how storage technologies could be deployed offshore, plus Canada scraps an unpopular carbon tax
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/sZEjFm...
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Interesting episode on splitting power bidding zones in GB @foresight-ce.bsky.social.
Where you attach most value in the energy trilemma (cost/CO2/security) influences where you land on bidding zone split. (Nicholas Harrington)
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In today’s 15 minutes, Sam and Dave look into the complex energy geopolitics 2025 is throwing into the mix, plus French energy firm EDF courts nuclear power clients outside of France
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/sJ9EXE...
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In today’s 15 minutes, Kira looks at plans to use state aid to boost the European Union’s decarbonisation efforts, plus what will happen to the Ukraine-United States minerals deal?
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/sL7rVC...
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The Baltic is shallow, the Atlantic isn’t, so I dunno if that’s the idea’s biggest problem. After all, there are plenty of telecoms cables across the ocean already:
20.02.2025 10:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Game respects game
19.02.2025 15:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No Euractiv on the list 😮
19.02.2025 15:00 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Maybe they could be hooked up to the cable instead like an old trolley bus. Make the electrification of heavy shipping possible!
19.02.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I love this idea: build a power cable between North America and Europe and trade electricity when demand peaks and troughs line up. Sure it's ambitious, but fighting climate change and completing the energy transition is going to need big ideas like this, in my view
19.02.2025 14:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Borrell
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MORE HERE On The EU Commission Threatening To Actually Do Some Work This Year
Full Report via @brusselstimes.com
www.brusselstimes.com/column/14404...
🎙️ Britain wants a clean power grid by 2030. Which makes the big clean power *auction* later this year absolutely vital. It cannot fail. But it might...
Check out today's episode of The Jolt to find out why:
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If we're getting rid of pennies just because they're uneconomic to make, it's also time to get rid of $1 bills in favor of $1 coins.
Also, get rid of fossil fuels. They're grossly uneconomic for the entire planet.
In today’s 15 minutes, Sam looks into why developing countries might quit the Paris Agreement, plus big emitters miss a key United Nations climate deadline
Listen now: foresightmedia.com/story/sb9wi4...
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UPDATE: it’s all gone to plan. The Baltic grid for the very first time is synchronised with mainland Europe’s.
09.02.2025 15:18 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
