Dido Gompertz

World Energy Investment 2025 – Analysis - IEA World Energy Investment 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

📉 A historic milestone in the #EnergyTransition:

In 2024, for the first time on record, there were no new steam turbine orders for coal-fired power plants in advanced economies.

A clear signal of shifting investment trends.

🔍 From @iea.org’s latest #WorldEnergyInvestment report.

12.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

NEW | World surpasses 40% clean power in 2024, driven by a RECORD rise in renewables 📈

Solar has DOUBLED in just three years, remaining the world’s fastest-growing source of new electricity and the engine of the energy transition ⚡

ember-energy.org/lat...

#GER2025

08.04.2025 09:00 — 👍 346    🔁 127    💬 5    📌 26

Trump's push to revive coal ignores the economic reality. The new #BoomandBust report shows he failed to bring coal back in his first term—retirements actually increased after Obama. This time round, clean energy alternatives are even cheaper: globalenergymonitor.org/report/boom-and-bust-coal-2025/

09.04.2025 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Solar is quickly becoming the cheapest source of electricity & will fundamentally change the energy system.

This paper argues that solar will be cheapest source of electricity around the world. Surprisingly this is AFTER including short- & long-term storage costs.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

24.03.2025 12:07 — 👍 299    🔁 111    💬 7    📌 13

gas responsible for most of the rise in energy emissions

Just saying this again because it's important: fossil gas was responsible for the biggest chunk of the rise in emissions in the energy sector from 2023 to 2024

Gas is a fossil fuel and a pollutant: dumping it and burning it causes suffering and death to living things

[note the truncated y axis]

25.03.2025 09:20 — 👍 154    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 1

NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040

⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought
💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP)
🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400
🔌Electrification is key

THREAD + charts

www.carbonbrief.org/...

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26.02.2025 10:27 — 👍 540    🔁 312    💬 16    📌 36

UK net zero economy grows 10% in a year, finds new report Sector “critical” to Government’s growth agenda

UK net zero economy grows 10% in a year, finds new report

Sector “critical” to Government’s growth agenda.

26.02.2025 14:15 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting framing from the Times - backsliding doesn't inspire confidence #BP

27.02.2025 12:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A funny thing happened between 2020 and 2025. The UK's cost to reach net zero fell by 75%. The net cost is a mere 0.2% of GDP or about £4 billion per year, after accounting for the savings from energy efficiency and falling fossil fuel consumption.

Free to read: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

27.02.2025 10:30 — 👍 124    🔁 64    💬 5    📌 6