The US EIA is expecting electricity demand in Texas to increase by 10%-15% between 2025 and 2027. After two decades of zero growth in electricity in the US, data centres are pushing huge change.
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
Question for #Netherlands #Climatesky. The New Zealand gas industry just used you as a cautionary tale in their lobbying for New Zealand to urgently start LNG imports (vs a managed phase-down of declining domestic gas, which would kill their industry). Interested in any reactions!
"Should Europe envy the United States for its tech sector? No. ... tech generates a big negative externality, because among other things it generates tech-bro billionaires, who are corrupting our politics."
"fully installed system cost below $20 per kilowatt-hour": Can that be right? Don't we normally talk about cents per kWh?
Update on this story, which many are (rightly) highly suspicious of.
Donut Lab will be posting a video of independent testing of their battery on 23rd Feb. "Full VTT test reports will be published" here: idonutbelieve.com
You might notice above the general decline in total sales over several years:
Sharp increase in battery-electric car sales in Thailand in January.
🚗End of the EV3 incentive scheme aimed at manufacturers and importers.
🚗Reduction in vehicle tax for BEVs from 8% to 2%.
robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
Probably, but that series doesn't appear to be adjusted for inflation.
Yes, that's my interpretation too.
"To put it simply, if you are an incumbent industry that’s been around for a century or more and you need taxpayer dollars via the DoD to keep going, things are pretty grim."
Totally normal with Japanese taxis. The passenger doors open and close at the remote control of the driver, and have done so for *decades*.
Works fine for me too.
Yes, including his observation that forecasting China's GDP growth is a fool's game not because it's hard but because the growth rate is always engineered to be achieved by means of whatever capital investment is needed. This focus on unproductive growth makes adjustment harder and harder every year
There's a majority in the Norwegian parliament for dropping the "climate neutral" 2030 target that was agreed back in 2016.
Prime candidates would be Japan and South Korea. I did hear something a while back about China intending to capture their shares of the market.
😊
I wonder if this was the previous "climate story of the century"... 😉
You're simply using the word 'government' differently to me. The judiciary is one of the three arms of government.
That Oatly can find an alternative solution isn't actually the point.
And of course the word 'milk' has been used for things other than animal secretions for >800 years.
You have to wonder just how delicate an industry is if it needs this sort of government intervention.
One million Europeans are employed in clean tech value chains. Including batteries, bioenergy, geothermal, hydro, heat pumps, solar and wind. Jobs are doubled compared with 2010.
The data are not available, but EV and nuclear jobs would push this even higher.
Hand on heart, it's never happened before, officer...
Jan 2023 was 1860 new cars, while Jan 2026 was 2218.
Huh, you're completely right!
Nice to hear! More to come this year, watch this space.
Here's a version with the datatips turned on.
Hehe. The final point is actually on the graph, just! Y limit there is 550 and the final point is 548.8. It's automatic, so should sort itself out.
We should not be subsidising fossil fuels.
And it's a whopper of a subsidy: The fuel+capital+operating cost of LNG (via BCG "Energy to Grow" report) is $44/GJ, half of that capital+O&M costs, if its for dry-year cover only. So paying the fixed costs with a levy HALVES the LNG price... 1/-
It's for feeder routes, so coastal shipping only.
There are still two million non-electric cars on the roads in Norway, which is twice as many as the number of electric cars. There's no decline in the number of energy stations, and it costs money to remove the fuel pumps. Pure-petrol sales have been low for a long time.
