Dave Jones

NEW: What’s new with national renewable targets? Not much!

At COP28, every country agreed to work to triple global renewable capacity. But many countries have yet to update their 2030 targets..

Report link here: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Of course, building more renewables is possible without setting targets, but targets are critical to make sure renewables expansion is more ambitious, cheaper and more secure than it would be otherwise..

Looking deeper by country..

Of course, all eyes are on China's updated expected later this year (and also for Japan and South Africa).

Of course, the US has no intention of setting itself a target, putting it alongside Russia as the only major country without a 2030 renewables target.

That means the 2030 renewables targets for every country add up globally to almost the same as when we first started tracking them 2 years ago😨...

NEW: What’s new with national renewable targets? Not much!

At COP28, every country agreed to work to triple global renewable capacity. But many countries have yet to update their 2030 targets..

"Slowdown? What slowdown?!"

The main message from the @iea.org electricity review out today is the focus on robust rising electricity demand..

www.iea.org/reports/elec...

EU's pledge for $250 billion of US energy imports is delusional There are strong echoes of Donald Trump's failed trade deal with China from his first term as U.S. president in the framework agreement reached with the European Union.

this is really worth a read...

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

NEW | Almost half of US states had 10%+ share of solar power in May 🇺🇸☀️

The latest US state electricity generation data for May 2025 reveals just how far solar has come:

🕑 May 2015 → May 2025
California: 13% → 45%
Nevada: 6% → 39%
Texas: 0.1% → 12%
Florida: 0.2% → 12%

It's incredible seeing where solar is..
..and isn't! ☀️🌤️⛅️🌥️

From EIA state-by-state data for May released yesterday.

US Electricity Data Explorer | Ember Explore national and state level fossil and renewable electricity generation and carbon emissions data for the United States

The EIA May data is updated on our US data explorer..

(The solar data includes small-scale solar)

ember-energy.org/data/us-elec...

It's incredible seeing where solar is..
..and isn't! ☀️🌤️⛅️🌥️

From EIA state-by-state data for May released yesterday.

"MASSIVE SLOWDOWN IN CHINA'S SOLAR IN JUNE"

Context:😶😂

REVISED: SolarPower Europe now expects the EU to install LESS solar in 2025 than it did in 2024 😲

The growing pains of solar are being felt, esp in residential sector 😬

🆕 The EU solar market is set to decline 2025

This marks the first year of negative solar growth in a decade📉

Rooftop solar declines as utility-scale picks up

Read the press release 👉 www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releas...

#EUSolarOutlook25

Oh my gosh, this was a great discussion.. I started off by being very excited by the #batteryrevolution, and by the end, David's enthusiasm had pushed me over the edge! Solar and batteries are going to change everything for the global electricity system!

Solar and batteries are a game-changer:

New @ember-energy.org analysis in @carbonbrief.org shows that in major sunny cities, such as Las Vegas or Mexico City, solar + batteries can now get more than 90% of the way to continuous generation, at costs below those of coal or nuclear power.

JUNE DATA UPDATE for CHINA: Solar up 40% in June, keeping coal almost unchanged.

Coal generation is down 2% YTD.

ember-energy.org/data/electri...

Nuclear☢️ has been consistently the EU's biggest source of electricity for around a decade..

That changed in June, as solar became the #1 source of EU electricity.

Sure, it's summer, but this is a big milestone for just how far solar has come, pushing coal to an all-time low💪

Wo ist das? Namibia🇳🇦, of course!

There's around 70MW of rooftop solar now in Namibia, estimates Energy For Growth. Most of it seems to be on large gov/commercial roofs rather than households.

Powerful imagery: China vs US from @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Netherlands and Hungary hit 40% solar of total electricity generation during June...

sorry beyond my pay grade:)

I think my problem with your wording in the first tweet was "they are afraid". i don't think that. i think "they are too proud and too frugile" is more accurate?!

I hear you (I mean I'd argue the other side of the leaf which is americans are far too wasteful;)).

i'm interested in that factoid.. do you have a source for it?

sure if that's what you want to believe😆

In just 10 years, the UK's electricity sector has gone from #1 emitter to #6 emitter... what a transformation 👏🇬🇧

Now to see what clean power can do to help cut the other sectors..

yes back in 2020. sorry i didn't mean to mislead!

Dang, you got me... I was looking in the last 12 months thinking wind and solar was always growing. But that's not the case in Uruguay.