A repowered California wind farm rises in a birthplace of the industry www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/a-repowered-...

"The unexpected boom in home batteries and the equally surprising surge in rooftop solar installations means that Australia’s target of 82 per cent renewables by 2030 – long dismissed as a lost cause by some – is now very much within reach."

Blueberry Lower Back

As the planet gets hotter, cities around the world are experiencing rain storms with record-smashing intensity. I spent the last few months visiting places -Copenhagen, Hoboken, & NYC- that have adopted a counterintuitive idea: the safest city is one that can take water in. In @newyorker.com

100% Of Copenhagen’s City Buses Are Now Electric cleantechnica.com/2026/04/03/1...

Hey @nytimes.com and the Athletic: is this your April Fools day joke, or just lazy editing? Usually the team with the best record is in first place.

Big Win for Battery Storage in California: Night Into Day open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

Some good news! www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Remember when CBS News laid off its whole climate reporting team last fall? Good news: I've scooped up their former senior climate producer, and now she's making a podcast with me. Sucks to suck, David Ellison! Listen/watch/subscribe here:

Really impressive job by @mayor.nyc.gov's cohort of snow shovelers here in the Bronx. Sidewalks and subway entrances are widely cleared 7 hrs after snow stopped. @nycsanitation.bsky.social's trucks have the main roads cleared. Next challenge: the 'hills' of NYC at street corners! TY to all!!!!

Still snowing in the Bronx.

Offshore wind for the win during Fern. www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

It would be great to see the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx put to good use: www.curbed.com/article/king...

MTA has installed new type of subway entrance gate in the Bronx. One of four styles being tested.

Central Park in the dark.

Feeling exhausted by the first few weeks of 2026? No, there are no cute puppies or kitties in this episode. But there is a fascinating, incredibly hopeful discussion about the little nerdy moves that can radically cut the cost of rooftop solar in the US. Another brilliant interview by @volts.wtf

Geothermal startups are having a moment. That includes Fervo Energy, which reportedly just filed for an IPO.

Heard about "virtual power plants"? Want to know more? Here I dig into the nuts and bolts:

The aurora tonight from Fairbanks, Alaska filmed in real-time (not sped up). Insane show!

This was a wonderfully uplifting and informative episode of Volts—delivered amidst so much bad news last week. A must listen!

Australia adds 7 GW of renewables in 2025, stays on track for 2030 target www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/13/a...

WNO is leaving the Kennedy Center. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/a...

24 million fewer vehicles: One year of congestion pricing in New York City - Fast Company

NYC Congestion Pricing is working: apple.news/AxSX1Mjy5ShW...

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”

Running the rails: Brooklyn man finishes quest to jog along every NYC subway line - Gothamist Quite a feat!

Iris missouriensis, our Rocky Mountain Iris, blooming with a ladybug on Goshawk Ridge #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 26 🌿

Great episode! As an apartment dweller in NYC, I'm looking forward to the day I can plug my panel in--and it sounds like that may be sooner rather than later!

Little beats the solitude of a rainy ride down the Hudson Greenway. Nary a soul down half the length of Manhattan. 🚲🌕

Bike lanes are for turkeys.

Ventilation was one of the original public health measures featured in early building codes in London and New York City. While contaminated water supplies were the real cause of cholera and typhoid outbreaks, airborne disease spread and high CO2 levels continue to plague modern buildings today.

First Solar just opened a $1.1 billion integrated solar PV manufacturing plant in Louisiana capable of producing 3.5 gigawatts of panels each year. The plant will employ >700 people electrek.co/2025/11/21/f... 🔌💡

KYC and ACE-✔️ DERs and VPPs-✔️David super-geeked and excited-✔️Piclo transforming energy marketplaces-✔️ Great podcast you should listen to-✔️✔️

Today on Volts: as you may have heard, there were some elections last week. How did they go for climate world? To find out, I did my annual check-in with @spears.bsky.social of @climatecabinet.org. I don't want to spoil anything, but folks ... they went well. Really well.

41 of 45 races won!

This is a great episode--don't miss out.

If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes. Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Fully electric dike construction project in the Netherlands. Pretty cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFa...

Subways are for people* *wearing costumes.

Wow--NY MTA goes big on Halloween!

When the coal mine where Matt Cooper works closes this year, he plans to keep digging for another form of energy: geothermal.

I think because of new data center demand, this issue is now white hot. Protocol committees, building code councils, zoning boards, permitting offices, PUCs: @volts.wtf is always working to make bureaucracy sexy, which we need a lot more of

Grand Central subway-station upgrades finally done after years of construction - Gothamist