Andreas Graf

National Energy and Climate Plans are crucial planning tools for EU energy, yet few countries provide complete data.

High-quality data is essential for confident planning and investment around the energy transition.

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/eu-national-targets-show-gas-in-decline

Updated 🇪🇺 Commission agenda is now online.
📅 2040 targets — with an interesting “s” — confirmed for 2/07.
But no news on the Russian energy package expected in June.

Habecks Heizgesetz bleibt wohl unberührt: So wurden wir belogen Und das ist anscheinend das Ergebnis von zwei Jahren Lügenkampagne über Heizungen: Weniger als 0,1 % der Heizungen dürfen länger betrieben werden. Und Habecks Gesetz bleibt unverändert.

Und das ist anscheinend das Ergebnis von zwei Jahren Lügenkampagne über Heizungen: Weniger als 0,1 % der Heizungen dürfen länger betrieben werden. Und Habecks Gesetz bleibt unverändert.

www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/re...

Swiss CO₂ removal start-up forced to downsize Swiss start-up that specialises in CO₂ removal from the atmosphere is threatened with large-scale lay-offs.

#DACSoufflé?
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/emission...

The US EIA posts LNG export prices - and they are pretty different for different EU countries!

(my first guess would be that age and length of the contracts play an important role)

www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_m...

Europe’s energy information problem Choices are needed about responsibilities at European and national levels, expanding existing institutions or creating new independent ones

It seems that much public debate on the Iberian blackout is still illustrated by a figure that is most probably wrong [see @lionhirth.bsky.social post: www.linkedin.com/posts/lionhi... ].

For properly monitoring energy security we need reliable data.

Join us Thu: www.bruegel.org/event/europe...

Spain's power is slowly coming back, but situation still far from normal. Out of the 33 GW scheduled for this evening peak, only 18 GW is available. Nuclear and coal-fired power plants still offline.

Around one-third of new car sales in China are fully electric, and about one-half have a battery.

Check out more interesting figures on China: robbieandrew.github.io/china/

via @robbieandrew.bsky.social

Here are the modelled implications of the IMO's draft Net-Zero framework by @transenv.bsky.social. Looks like a modest impact in the short-term with most of the deviation from BAU coming under the next US presidential term.
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/is-...

NOAA is a $6.7B agency.

8) And this one is important.

For all the talk about the powerful pro-Trump media ecosystem, the share of Americans who have heard negative business news coverage of the government has exploded.

Evidently even the podcast bros can’t distract Americans from the realities of the stock market.

3) That was just the US version.

What’s particularly impressive is that he’s managed this on a global scale.

Starting to get the feeling that “Trump” annotation is going to be the chart equivalent of a layer of volcanic ash in the fossil record.

🚨 The IMO negotiations have reached a critical moment: The EU needs to stay on course to promote a global scale-up of renewable hydrogen and derivatives (e-fuels).

💰 The policy options on the table differ considerably, by a factor of 3 to 4

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In a new @forumenergii.bsky.social report @maciekjakubik.bsky.social, @zaniewicz.bsky.social, @keliauskaite.bsky.social , Szymon Kardas and I argue that Europe needs a profound rethink of its energy security strategy:
www.forum-energii.eu/en/download/...

Some highlights in the thread 1/14

The 🇪🇺 continues to OVERINVEST in gas as a short-term fix to secure fuel supply after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite alternative solutions 🚩

131 bcm of gas supply capacity will likely be underutilised by 2030, wasting public funds and driving up consumer costs 📈💶
ember-energy.org/lat...

🗳️ This makes the upcoming decision by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) so important for the global #H2 ramp-up: It will either
↗️ provide much-needed demand for #renewablehydrogen and derived fuels, or
↘️ delay their use by promoting #LNG and #biomass in the early years.
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🚢 🏭 Renewable #hydrogen & derivatives will be needed as industrial feedstocks and marine fuels on the path to achieving #climateneutrality.
Agora Industry, @theicct.org & @regassistproj.bsky.social have examined where using hydrogen would be most effective to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 1/x

Czechia was hit pretty badly by drought and bark beetles a few years ago, but the forest carbon uptake has recovered somewhat in the last couple of years.

Die volkswirtschaftliche Logik einer Wiedereröffnung von NordStream 2 erschließt sich mir einfach nicht.

Durch diese Importe wird (marginaler) EU Gaspreis voraussichtlich nicht entscheidend vermindert.

Dafür spülen wir ca. 10 Mrd. € in die russische Kriegskasse. Überschlagsrechnung:

Two unqualified-for-their-job freeloaders call Europe a freeloader. From Jonathan Goldberg of the Atlantic's story about their massive incompetent infodump.

Coca-Cola’s new hydrogen-powered vending machine doesn’t need a power outlet Coke cuts the power cord.

#HydrogenLadder needs a new Row Z.
www.theverge.com/news/633779/...

Boosting the clean heat market A policy for guiding the transition of the EU heating industry

Eigentlich sollte dieser @agoraew.bsky.social Vorschlag nicht in Konkurrenz mit dem GEG gestellt werden. Aber hier wäre so ein Modell - Europäisch gedacht.
www.agora-energiewende.org/publications...

Arbeitsgruppe von Union und SPD: Änderung von Heizungsgesetz und Reichensteuersatz geplant Kaum ein anderes Gesetz der Ampel-Koalition war so umstritten wie das Heizungsgesetz. Eine Arbeitsgruppe der Koalitionsverhandlungen legt derzeitige Debatten auf.

"Laut Portal soll ein neues Gesetz geschaffen werden, das einen Paradigmenwechsel weg von einer kurzfristigen Energieeffizienzberatung beim Einzelgebäude hin zu einer langfristigen Betrachtung der Emissionseffizienz vollzieht."
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/arbe...

Europeans' belief in the importance of the EU has surged to record levels, according to a survey released yesterday.

74% now say their country benefits from being in 🇪🇺 - up from 50% in 2010. And the biggest reason is about security, *not* the economy.
europa.eu/eurobaromete...

Ziemlich billig erkauft. Einfach traurig!

"China’s influence in global coal market trends is unparalleled by any country for any type of fuel, with China’s share of global coal consumption now standing at 58%".

Coal – Global Energy Review 2025 – Analysis - IEA Global Energy Review 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

"In China, coal demand grew by 1.2% in 2024, reaching a new all-time high. The country now consumes nearly 40% more coal than the rest of the world combined, largely for power generation. Over one-third of all the coal consumed globally is burned by power plants in China"
www.iea.org/reports/glob...

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record.

Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record.

(This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa)

gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

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US LNG exporters stick with methane measures despite EPA rollbacks U.S. liquefied natural gas exporters, seeking to meet standards of overseas import markets, plan to continue to monitor and curb their methane emissions despite President Donald Trump's plans to roll back climate regulations, two trade groups told Reuters.

"Whatever changes are made to how the United States regulates methane, including the endangerment finding, the EU methane regulation remains unchanged"
www.reuters.com/business/ene...