This is unbelievably sad news. Oleksii Brekht was acting CEO of Ukraine’s transmission system operator, Ukrenergo, during the turbulent and challenging first half of 2025. He died defending his country’s power system - a role that no civilian energy professional should ever be forced to assume.

US government representatives continue to find themselves isolated when pitching for coal and against renewables www.ft.com/content/e2ae...

Seeing Europes most beloved professional group, farmers, doing their utmost to lose that status and probably still failing at it

And not only to the big firms but to the two countries east and west of Europe who still don’t seem to fathom that this could actually happen, and is in fact happening

One of those rare cases where all the hyperbole over a speech is not actually hyperbole Its a doctrine that many, EU included even if they will struggle with the honesty bit, should be able to get behind, that could work and, crucially, outlast Donroe paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Batteries are an increasingly cheap way to bypass the erosion of the price commanded by already installed solar. No way of suppressing this demand.

As Rasmussen says: “the world’s attention is now focused on something that does not represent a threat — namely Greenland, a friendly ally of the US — instead of focusing on what should be the focal point right now: namely, how can we force Putin to the negotiation table in Ukraine?”

As I am seeing a lot of excitement in certain circles over these remarks, this will not mean that Germany will now embrace nuclear, it can’t afford it. It’s tactical manoeuvring to put the blame for relatively high energy costs, which Germany has always had, elsewhere.

Trump is trying to kill clean energy. The market has other plans. #Climate

This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Whatever the outcome of this, it’s already mission accomplished for Russia

Better known as the Mearsheimer doctrine

It isn't just Europeans understanding the new world order. The ECFR survey found that most Russians now no longer see America as an enemy - they have switched to seeing Europe as an enemy. Ukrainians, in turn, no longer see America as a friend. www.politico.eu/article/the-...

Trade deals are the battle farmers love to lose. Remember well during TTIP how a COPA rep literally told DG Trade they supported a deal but would have to criticise it publicly to keep their constituency happy and asked for their understanding www.politico.eu/article/euro...

To think there are still governments who think it’s in their best interest to control more oil resources

This is more about consumer confidence in EVs translating into better then expected sales figures but still another proofpoint that writing off Germanys car industry would be premature: www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/...

"Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year..." How many people know this? The economics are on the side of clean energy. The petrofascists know. Can they stop it?

“The neo-royalist order centers on an international system structured by a small group of hyper elites who seek to legitimize their authority through appeals to their exceptionalism in order to generate durable material & status hierarchies based on the extraction of financial & cultural tributes.”

Zehlendorfer natives reflecting on their imperial lifestyles* - 2026 oil on canvas *following a 5 day black out caused by a sabotage attack on local power lines, one of many attacks on Germanys energy transition, in this case from the far left.

To put it in perspective: this is the climate equivalent of sabotaging a vaccination centre to fight a pandemic. You need to be either excessively dumb, ideologically blinded or pursuing other objectives, all of which seem like plausible possibilities at this point

Knock me down with a feather table.media/ceo/news/kra...

"The big question for Europe is: when are you gonna fight back, guys?" ask former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Ben Rhodes. "He doesn't respect you, he's interfering in your political affairs, he's talking shit...at some point stop lathering him with praise" open.spotify.com/episode/6USY...

My colleagues @susieelks.bsky.social and @edmatthew.bsky.social are pointing out that Ofgem's new network plans will save money! Once again the media getting things wrong about renewables...

Putin is a far more successful manipulator of Western psychology than he is a conqueror of Ukrainian defensive positions share.google/t4tDq7zXBj7o...

EU strategic autonomy in practice: ‘The fossil fuel companies, aimed to “divide and conquer in the Council”, sideline “stubborn” EC departments, and push the EPP in the European Parliament “to side with the right-wing parties as much as possible”. www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

Really inspiring story of how anti coal protests in Australia are changing the energy landscape in Asia thepoint.com.au/news/251126-...

Uruguay’s power grid runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules. Emissions reductions were a valuable side effect

I really, sincerely hope that S/D and Renew lawmakers think of something they can do about it, at the very latest before the next elections when they need to explain to their voters why they should bother voting for them again

There were plenty who wanted it initially (same ones who usually decry EU bureaucracy) until they realised how silly it made them look

This is particularly stunning because the sheer number of times we demonstrated Bjorn Lomborg was just flat-out lying grew so large that it almost became literally pointless to keep doing it, because he just ignores it and keeps on going

Only a Pyrrhus win if at all; choice with exiting fossil fuels is one between managed/fair and messy/brutal, the less it’s talked about the messier it will be for major producer countries, not a single EV will be sold less as a results of this #COP30 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

Divide over fossil fuels phaseout can be bridged, Cop30 president says

Razom We Stand and 30+ European organisations have sent a joint letter urging #EU leaders to finally close the loopholes that still allow Russian fossil fuels into Europe and to uphold a strong, loophole-free Regulation: razomwestand.com/ukrainian-ca... @caneurope.org

Stellantis chair wants every European to pay more for their electricity. (EVs are batteries on wheels, they charge on renewables that might otherwise be curtailed thereby lowering overall system costs.)

South Korea’s 2040 coal phase out plan threatens Australias 2.3 billion export industry, isolates Japan www.afr.com/world/asia/s...

The domestic cost of China's global ambition www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

Gonna use that line next time I mess up something specularly

Remarkable but also begging the question when Poland stops behaving like a climate laggard politically when it’s economy is clearly cleaning up

Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

This is good news, both EU and UK already have incredibly ambitious plans for offshore wind in the North Sea that need them to work together to succeed also on things like security, it would have been an enormous act of self harm not to reach a deal, avoiding it not exactly a given these days

Incredible graphic here: showing the huge potential for coal-to-gas switching in Asia in 2030 ON THE CONDITION that gas becomes so cheap that gas producers operate at a massive, crippling loss when they produce, liquefy and ship it to Asia Also see: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...

How Spanish conservatives are driving forward the cooperation between centre and far-right forces in Europe, targeting a policy that Spain has been doing really well from domestically (clean energy/climate) elpais.com/espana/2025-...

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

Generally careful with historical parallels but think this one has relevance (would just note that it wasn’t only the Italians getting poorer back then but Dutch also got a lot richer)

Essential context to this years IEA WEO launched today You need to believe some *really* implausible things to happen in the next 10 years for the FTs headline to be correct. Clear why the US wanted the underlying scenario in, but a lot less clear why anyone else should take it seriously

If that case is winnable, and there is good reason to believe it is, the BBC should fight it.

This 💯💯💯 Do our European leaders ever stop to think about the deep humiliation of constantly allowing the US to dictate our policies here in Europe? Or they are incapable of shame?

Dunkelflaute weather in Berlin since yesterday and still to see a first post of the local energy mix, trolls are really letting up

In yet more 'why is Britain pursuing net zero when no one else is', India's electricity capacity is now over 50 per cent low carbon and it just saw peak renewables generation deliver half the country's power. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521481...